Charlotte Banning

Charlotte Summer Banning (b. December 6, 1993) is a Cajun-American singer-songwriter, animator, HALCYoN band member, and actor. She has also done work with Game Grumps, SuperMega, Smosh, appearing on let's plays, live-action videos/sketches, and podcast episodes, and (most recently) Starkid. She's an alto and she also plays piano, ukulele, guitar, and clarinet.

Physical Appearance
Charlotte is 5' 8", curvy, with blue eyes and long, wavy brown hair. Her skin is much like her older brother, Connor's, golden, but with tons of freckles like Emily.

She wears cropped shirts, button-down shirts with funky designs, and hoodies, occasionally stolen from friends and Ryan. When she goes out, she's been seen wearing more "scandalous" shirts, or just button-ups with many of the buttons undone. Parents may complain, but at least our girl Charlie is comfortable with her body!

She always wears her dark, thick-framed glasses and either Vans or black boots.

Personality
She's very bubbly and social, similar to Al, but she's much more confident, bordering on cocky. Out of all of the HALCYoN ladies, Charlotte is definitely the loudest (er- sorry, most "outspoken").

SuperMega
Charlotte started as just a friend of the boys, occasionally coming on the podcast and let's plays, and filming live-action videos. Eventually, Matt and Ryan hired her as their channel artist and gave her a bigger role on the channel. More recently, she's been acting as their official "cinematographer", channel artist, and as a personality.

Music Career
Throughout her college years, Charlie uploaded semi-regular covers to her YouTube channel, eventually throwing in a couple of original songs as well. In November 2016, she released her first EP titled, Intertwined. Despite being self-released, it managed to hit 35 on the US charts in the first week. Charlie took the EP on tour in March 2017.

Charlie followed it up quickly with another EP titled You in August 2017. She also took this on tour during October 2017. She released her third EP titled Human in January 2019. Some tracks featured friends of hers, like Broadway and Supernatural actor Raven Page on the title track Human, and older brother Connor Banning on Not What I Meant.

The singer-songwriter announced her first full-length album, Build A Problem to be released on May 7, 2021. The second half of this album will include several of the demos Charlie uploaded during her ALOSIAs (A Lot Of Songs In April/August).

Starkid
Charlotte made her Starkid debut as Alice Woodward and other characters in The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals. Since then, she's appeared in Nightmare Time as Duchess Lucy Stockworth (The Hatchetfield Ape-Man), and Alice again (Watcher World). Then in 2021, she appeared in Nightmare Time 2 as Zoey Chambers (Honey Queen), Stephanie Lauter (Abstinence Camp), and Alice Woodward (Killer Track).

Romantic Partners
Ryan Magee: 2016 - 2017, April 2020 - August 2021

Charyan

Grace Jackson: October 2021 - present

Graclie

Timeline
See Charlotte Banning's timeline.

Trivia

 * She has said on social media that she struggles with C-PTSD, depression, and anxiety.
 * She can make incredible cocktails and other alcoholic masterpieces (as seen on SuperMega's series, "Drunk Drawing"). When asked how she knows how to make such hard-but-delicious beverages, all she's said was, "I've had practice".
 * She smokes weed both recreationally and for medical purposes.
 * She has had over 20 boyfriends, girlfriends, and partners (as far as we know).
 * Charlie was hired at Smosh in 2018, just before the Defy Media shutdown and Smosh had to pause operations. She returned with the cast shortly after they were acquired by Mythical Entertainment.
 * She got her Bachelor's degree in Art and Neuroscience (double-major) at UCLA in 2016.
 * She's said on her social media that she wants to go back to get her Master's--in the neuroscience side of things--and that she initially wanted to get a second job at Smosh to help her save for the tuition.