Dane Boedigheimer

Dane Willard Boedigheimer (born September 28, 1978), better known by her pseudonym Dane Boe, is an American internet personality, actress, voice actress, writer, animator, filmmaker, and musician. She is known for creating the web series Annoying Orange and the spin-off television series The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange; Boedigheimer provides the voice of the title character along with others in both productions and has produced several original songs.

Boedigheimer began making videos with a 8mm camcorder as a teenager. Boedigheimer was a speech communications major at Minnesota State University Moorhead, and became a production assistant for MTV's Pimp My Ride three years after earning her degree. She later founded the company Gagfilms in 2005.

The talking food videos Boedigheimer had previously done for JibJab inspired and prepared her to create the first original Annoying Orange video. Due to the success of the video, she began creating more, and ultimately became an online YouTube franchise. The success of the Annoying Orange series has been parlayed into a spin-off television series called The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, a video game, a range of toys, a clothing line, and costumes.

Early life and education Dane Willard Boedigheimer was born in Itasca County, Minnesota, and Julie (née Barsness) Boedigheimer. Boedigheimer has a younger brother, Lucas. Boedigheimer was raised in Harwood, North Dakota, in the Fargo–Moorhead area, where she frequently made home videos as a teen. For these videos, Boedigheimer began using her parents' 8mm video camera that she got for Christmas at the age of 12; "I was spending entire days making short videos with my younger brother. It all just blossomed from there. I remember sitting in my room for hours editing my videos with two VCRs. It was painstaking, but I loved it. There was something magical about making stories come to life right in front of my eyes, no matter how crappy those stories were!" This would later inspire Boedigheimer to work as a camera operator for local TV stations. Boedigheimer attended West Fargo High School where she graduated in 1997.

During her college years, Boedigheimer studied filmmaking at Minnesota State University Moorhead where she met Spencer Grove as an undergraduate. She was a major in speech communications with an emphasis in film studies, which she has said to be a preparation for the creation of Annoying Orange; "The program (at MSUM) was very small when I was there, and you had to make things work with a small budget. I think that experience actually kind of helped." with Boedigheimer earning $700 a week.

On Valentine's Day 2005, Boedigheimer founded the company Gagfilms, which slowly built a core of fans.

The original video was planned to be titled The Annoying Apple, but when Boedigheimer started animating the video, she figured it would be easier to put features on an orange than an apple and make it more visible. Annoying Orange was initially never intended to be a series. However, as the video became popular, Many viewers requested more videos, and after the 4th episode, Boedigheimer decided to make it a full-time series. Following the success of the series, a channel dedicated to Annoying Orange was created under the name "realannoyingorange" on January 31, 2010. The success of the series would also receive the attention of Fargo advertising agency H2M, who, in 2006, created its own "Talking Orange", which is the spokesman for an ad campaign for the North Dakota Department of Transportation. Both of the two characters were two anthropomorphic oranges with ties to the Fargo-Moorhead area. Despite only slightly resembling the "Talking Orange", Annoying Orange was looked into by H2M's attorneys due to intellectual property issues. Boedigheimer stated that she had not seen the "Talking Orange" videos prior to the disagreement, also believing that the characters were not similar in any other aspect.

New episodes of Annoying Orange were initially released on a weekly, currently bi-weekly basis, with a few exceptions. The episodes are released every Friday on realannoyingorange's YouTube channel, now the official Annoying Orange channel. In 2010, Boedigheimer's YouTube channel had almost 350 million views and earned an income of $288,000 from ads. Due to the success from the television version of Annoying Orange, Boedigheimer was also one of the final presenters of the 64th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Personal life Boedigheimer married Theresa Barket, a frequent collaborator in her videos, in 2012. They live in Sierra Madre, California.

Boedigheimer is a transgender woman. She came out publicly as nonbinary and transgender in December 2023 on a YouTube interview with Smosh, and then as a trans woman on May 6 2025. Boedigheimer has red–green color blindness.

Filmography Year Title Creator Writer Animator Actor Role Notes 2002 Donkey Punch Shot Taker Short film 2006–2011 From the Fridge Various charactersHerself Web series (produced by GagFilms) 2008–2011 Scary Faces Herself Web series (produced by GagFilms) 2008–2009 Viral Killer Kool Aid Killer Web series (produced by GagFilms) 2008 SuperHero School Man with cat Short film 2009–2013 My Roommate Mario HerselfMario Web series (produced by GagFilms) 2009–present Annoying Orange Orange PearMidget AppleMarshmallow HerselfVarious characters Web series (produced by GagFilms) 2010 Smosh Orange Web seriesEpisode: "Harry Potter Deleted Scenes!" 2012–2013 Ultimate Cartoon Fighting Orange Episode: "Goku vs. Everyone" (ep . 7) 2012–2014 The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange Orange PearMidget AppleMarshmallow HerselfVarious characters TV series for Cartoon Network 2013 Just Shut Up! Dane Episode: "Wild Animals! ft. Daneboe" (ep. 6) 2013–2014 The Misfortune of Being Ned Orange Annoying Oranges YouTube show 2013 Thunder McWylde Thunder Daneboe's YouTube show 2014 The Marshmallow Show Marshmallow, Various characters Annoying Oranges YouTube show 2014 D.E.R.P. Various characters Annoying Oranges YouTube show 2015 The Internetest safety video on the Internet Orange Delta Air Lines safety video; cameo