Charlotte Newhouse is an American actress, writer, and producer born on November 10, 1977, in New York City. She is best known for creating and starring in the Comedy Central series Idiotsitter , which premiered in 2014. In the show, she plays Wilhelmina "Billie" Brown, a Harvard graduate hired to supervise a wealthy, irresponsible young woman under house arrest. The series started as a web series before being picked up by Comedy Central and was renewed for a second season in 2016
. She has also appeared in TV shows such as Community , Reno 911! , Curb Your Enthusiasm , Mike Tyson Mysteries , and The Big Bang Theory. Additionally, Newhouse was a member of the Los Angeles-based comedy troupe The Groundlings
. Charlotte Newhouse graduated from Columbia University in 2001. She comes from the prominent Newhouse family, known for their ownership of major media outlets including Condé Nast, Discovery Channel, and Reddit. Her father is Mark Newhouse, an executive at Advance Publications, and her great-uncle was Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., a notable figure in the publishing industry
. She is active on Instagram under the handle @charlienewhouse, where she has a following of over 3,600 people
