Amy Schumer
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| Born | Amy Beth Schumer June 1, 1981 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Towson University (BA) |
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| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Chuck Schumer (second cousin once removed) |
| Comedy career | |
| Years active | 2004–present |
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| Website | amyschumer |
Amy Beth Schumer (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 in Steve Martin's Meteor Shower for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. 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 memoir, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016).