Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer
Schumer in 2011
Birth nameAmy Beth Schumer
Born (1981-06-01) June 1, 1981 (age 43)
Upper East Side, New York City, U.S.
Medium
  • Stand-up
  • television
  • film
  • theatre
Alma materTowson University (BA)
Years active2004–present
Genres
Subject(s)
Spouse
(m. 2018)
Children1
Relative(s)Chuck Schumer (second cousin once removed)
Websiteamyschumer.com

Amy Beth Schumer[1] (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. Schumer ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing in 2007. From 2013 to 2016, she was the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, for which she received a Peabody Award and was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015.

Schumer wrote and made her film debut in a starring role in Trainwreck (2015) earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She then starred in the comedy films Snatched (2017), and I Feel Pretty (2019). She created, produced and starred in the HBO documentary series Expecting Amy (2020), and the Hulu comedy-drama series Life & Beth (2022–2024).

She made her Broadway debut acting in Steve Martin's comedic play Meteor Shower for which she earned a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Schumer has earned two Grammy Award nominations for Best Comedy Album for Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, and Best Spoken Word Album for narrating her The New York Times Best Selling memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016).

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