Frangela - A biography
Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton are real life best friends who talk to each other all day long. This used to be more convenient when Angela lived upstairs from Frances in Chicago when they met at the world famous Second City Theatre, where they polished their talents as writers and comedy satirists.
Frances is from Chicago and proud of it. She can be seen weekly on VH1’s Best Week Ever, and has also appeared on NBC’s My Name is Earl, Disney’s Hannah Montana, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, ABC’s According To Jim, ABC’s Emily’s Reason’s Why Not, Oxygen’s Girl’s Behaving Badly, WE Television’s I Can’t Believe I Wore That, Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh, NBC’s Frasier, WB’s Like Family, ABC’s It’s All Relative, Fit to be Tied, and Fox’s Drive.
Angela is a badass Detroit native. In Chicago she hosted the regional Emmy Award winning PBS series, “The Cheap Show” – a local version of Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect”. Angela can been seen weekly on: VH1’s Best Week Ever, and has appeared on CBS’s Grounded For Life, NBC/Bravo’s Significant Other’s, HBO’s Mr. Show, Disney Channel’s The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Oxygen’s Girl’s Behaving Badly, WE Television’s I Can’t Believe I Wore That, Junk Yard Teddies (pilot). She has also voiced Spider Man 2 and Ultimate Spider Man, Superman, and Reservoir Dogs video games. Angela can be seen in the Happy Madison films Strange Wilderness and I Know What Boys Like.
Frances and Angela are regular “Pop Cultural Pundits” on NBC’s The Today Show and Dateline, Fox’s Mike and Juliet Show, CNN’s Showbiz Tonight and Headline News, Fox News’s Red Eye and The Big Story, MSN’s The Big Debate, and are regular contributors on NPR’s Day to Day and Off Ramp.
Frances and Angela are currently creating and co-executive producing a new television comedy for the Disney Channel. Last season they starred, wrote and produced their own pilot for FOX Television Network called “Frances and Angela”. They both starred and wrote on their award winning animated show “Hey Monie” for Oxygen and BET. They also wrote on the Showtime pilot “The Offensive Show”. Together they have starred in the American version of the hit BBC show Three Non-Blondes for VH1 (pilot).
Frances and Angela have co-authored a book called “The Girl Friend Handbook”. Look for their Cingular FRANGELA ring-tones they are crazy funny!