‘Overcompensating’ Star Wally Baram Says First On-Screen Role Gave Her the Gift of Self-Esteem

Wally Baram has spent the early part of her twenties in the writer’s room. After dropping out of college after a year, the 27-year-old has written on several streaming hits, including “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Shrinking,” but it was not until Benito Skinner’s college comedy that she got a chance to step on the other side of the camera. 

“To be honest, before this, I wanted to act, and it was kind of why I got into this industry,” Baram tells TheWrap. “But I just could never imagine...