Background
Her father is former football player Peter Raskopoulos, and her brother is Steen Raskopoulos, a fellow comedian.
Her father is former football player Peter Raskopoulos, and her brother is Steen Raskopoulos, a fellow comedian.
In 2003, Raskopoulos became involved with Impro Australia"s Theatresports events including The Belvoir Street Theatre Theatresports and the Cranston Cup competitions, winning State and National Titles. In 2005, she became part of the university sketch comedy supergroup The 3rd Degree who performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. This group formed the base of the Network Ten’s Logie award-winning cult ensemble sketch comedy television show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, which Raskopoulos starred in and wrote foreign
She was a team captain for a season of the Business School sports show The Squiz.
In 2007, her debut solo stage show was called The Adventures of the Manitoba with the Dominant Claw. With her band The Axis of Awesome, Raskopoulos has appeared on Q&A, Good News Week and The Footy Show.
Since 2006, Raskopoulos has fronted the award-winning musical comedy trio The Axis of Awesome, whose parody song "4 Chords" has received almost 37.5 million hits on YouTube and is one of the highest rated comedy videos on the site. The group came to attention after the release of their songs parodying the 2007 Australian federal election and received a Moosehead award at the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival for their show The Axis of Awesome Comeback Spectacular.
Since 2009, the Axis of Awesome have produced four albums and toured extensively in the United States of America, United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Australia, with sold out seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Raskopoulos was cast in the supporting role of Trax in the 2012 movie Underground: The Julian Assange Story along with Rachel Griffiths, Anthony LaPaglia and Alex Williams. In January 2013, Raskopoulos requested users of the internet forum Something Awful to vote for her in the most popular actor category of the 2013 Logie Awards, promising in return to allow site users to write her acceptance speech. This caused some controversy, with news outlets reporting that Raskopoulos, who despite a high-profile international comedy career was a relative unknown in Australian acting circles, planned to "hack" the Logies.
Raskopoulos came out as a transgender woman in 2016.
After the success of The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Raskopoulos went on to appear in Stupid, Stupid Manitoba, Stand Up Australia, Hole in the Wall, Good News Week and Thank God You"re Here, and has provided voices for the ABC2 machinima series The Team.
The Axis of Awesome.