Celeste Thorson

Celeste Thorson was born in Orange County, California. and raised throughout New Mexico, Texas & California by her mother, a fine artist and father, a US Marine. Ethnically she is of Korean, Scottish Irish, Lebanese, Apache American Indian, and Spanish descent. She began acting as a child in live community theater in New Mexico, but didn't pursue it professionally until her 20's. She is best known as the daredevil star of Destination X and for her comedic appearance on How I Met Your Mother. As a young teen, she volunteered at a WNMU lab where she taught computer literacy, worked as a camp counselor at a water sports camp and apprenticed large format painters in Santa Fe, NM. She decided to graduate high school early and attend the historic Instituto Allende, a classical art institute her mother, and grandmother attended in the international art colony of San Miguel De Allende Guanajuato, Mexico. At the age of 17, she returned to the US and moved to Los Angeles where she started her w