Exclusive: Comedian and actress Michelle Brasier, you’ll know her as Lindy in Network 10’s Ghosts Australia, as Viv Nicholson in the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, or as one half of cult comedy duo Double Denim — has declared Buffy the Vampire Slayer “the most important thing in the whole world.”
Full disclosure: I’ve been obsessed with Brasier’s comedy for years, and it turns out we share exactly the kind of unhinged Buffy devotion that only fellow Scoobies understand.
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Brasier didn’t hold back on what the show means to her generation.
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so important to the culture,” Brasier said. “It created millennials.”
“It’s the most important thing in the whole world,” she added.
She was just as passionate about Sunnydale’s resident Watcher.
“Giles is a queer icon,” Brasier said. “Giles is so important to us.”
Fashion got its moment too.
“Buffy had the best outfits,” she said. “Cordelia had the best outfits.”
For Brasier, the show’s legacy runs deeper than the wardrobe. She said Cordelia joining Buffy’s gang “taught us that weird girls could be witches and could be powerful.”
“And just because they were shy didn’t mean they didn’t have any power, through Willow,” she said.
“And we learned that hot girls could be smart and could be helpful, through Cordelia and through Buffy.”
Add in the show’s “quippy” dialogue, and Brasier says it all adds up to a defining aesthetic.
“The outfits and the quippy writing ... it shaped what is known as ‘90s camp for me,” she said.
Brasier, grew up in Wagga Wagga, NSW, before moving to Melbourne in 2007 to study musical theatre, graduating from Ballarat’s Arts Academy at Federation University in 2010.
She cut her teeth at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the 2014 Game of Thrones parody Winter Is Coming, before launching solo show Space Tortoise in 2016.
Her main gig, though, is Double Denim, the comedy duo she formed with Laura Frew, which picked up a Golden Gibbo nomination at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) for their self-titled 2017 show, Best Newcomers at Sydney Comedy Festival for Double Denim Adventure Show in 2018, and the MICF’s Moosehead Award in 2020.
Brasier has also earned acclaim for her solo theatre work, including Average Bear, Reform and Legacy, and has crossed over to the screen more recently, playing Viv Nicholson in 2024’s Better Man, appearing as Lindy in Ghosts Australia, and popping up in The Greg Larsen Show — on top of a memoir, My Brother’s Ashes Are in a Sandwich Bag, shortlisted for both the 2025 Russell Prize for Humour Writing and the inaugural John Clarke Prize.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s seven seasons are streaming now on Disney+ in Australia, so if Brasier’s enthusiasm has you Googling “am I secretly Team Giles”, you know what to do this weekend.