Bro. Andrew Bachelor | Mu Epsilon Chapter
Bro. Andrew Byron Bachelor was born June 26, 1988, in Toronto, Ontario to Jamaican parents, accountants Ingrid Mourice and Byron Bachelor. He was two years old when he moved with his family to West Palm Beach, Florida. Andrew also known as King Bach is a Canadian-American Internet personality who rose to fame on the now-defunct video sharing service Vine, where he had 16.2 million followers, making him the most followed user on the platform. Bachelor also has a TikTok account with 24 million followers and runs a YouTube channel with over 2.4 million followers
He attended Coral Springs Charter School for both middle school and high school. After graduating, Bachelor enrolled at Florida State University, where he competed in the high jump. He also took part in a club called 30in60 which is an elite collegiate comedy sketch troupe. He graduated from Florida State University in 2010, with a degree in business management. Afterwards, he enrolled in a graduate program at the New York Film Academy, but dropped out in his last semester and moved to Los Angeles. He then studied improvisational theatre at The Groundlings.
Bachelor is also a rising actor, writer, and director, leveraging his mass of followers on social media (especially on the now-defunct Vine) for his work on the web, television and the movies, starting with Michael Tiddes’ spoof film, Fifty Shades of Black (2016), with co-writer/producer Marlon Wayans, Jane Seymour, Florence Henderson, Fred Willard, and Mike Epps. He appeared in Deon Taylor’s horror-comedy starring Epps, Meet the Blacks (2016), and Taylor’s sequel, The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 (2021).
Continuing the horror-comedy blend, Bachelor was part of the support on McG’s Netflix black comedy-horror movie, The Babysitter (2017), with Samara Weaving and Judah Lewis, as well as the sequel, The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), with Leslie Bibb and Bella Thorne. Bachelor’s first starring role (as executive producer) was in Scott Zabielski’s comedy released by Lionsgate, Where’s the Money (2017), with Method Man, Retta, Mike Epps, and Terry Crews. Bachelor shifted to rom-com mode in Ari Sandel’s Netflix production, When We First Met (2018), with Adam DeVine and Alexandra Daddario, followed by the Susan Johnson/Sofia Alvarez film for Netflix, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018), with Lana Condor and Noah Centineo.
Andrew Bachelor’s acting activity since 2019 has almost been what could be termed frenetic, with 13 features credits (excluding his credits in television and video games), including his second film under McG’s direction for Netflix, Rim of the World (2019), with Jack Gore, Miya Cech, and Annabeth Gish; another Netflix production, director Michael Dowse’s action comedy Coffee & Kareem (2020), with Ed Helms, David Alan Grier, and Taraji P. Henson; one of Bachelor’s biggest-budget films, the Gerard Butler-starring disaster thriller, Greenland (2020), with Morena Baccarin, Hope Davis, and Scott Glenn; and an McG-produced rom-com for Netflix, Holidate (2020), with Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey, and Frances Fisher.
Awards:Named one of the "top influencers" by both Forbes and Time, and in 2015 he received the Streamy Award for Viner of the Year. The following year, he won the Shorty Award for Viner of the Year, and in 2017 he was nominated for the Streamy Award for Storyteller of the Year.
