Amy Beth Schumer was born on June 1,1981 and is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director.
47 Facts About Amy Schumer
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Amy Schumer published a memoir in 2016, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, which held the top position on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for two weeks.
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Amy Schumer was born on June 1,1981, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, to Sandra Jane and Gordon David Amy Schumer, who owned a baby-furniture company.
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Amy Schumer's father was born to a Jewish family from Ukraine.
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Amy Schumer is a second cousin of US Senator and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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Amy Schumer was raised Jewish and says she had to deal with antisemitism as a child.
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Amy Schumer was voted both "Class Clown" and "Teacher's Worst Nightmare" upon graduation in 1999.
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Amy Schumer attended the Hebrew school of the Central Synagogue of Nassau County, a Reform synagogue in Rockville Centre, on whose board her mother served.
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Amy Schumer moved near Baltimore, Maryland, after high school when she attended Towson University; she graduated with a degree in theater in 2003.
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Amy Schumer returned to New York City after college, where she studied at the William Esper Studio for two years and worked as a bartender and a waitress.
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Amy Schumer has a younger sister, Kim Caramele, who is a comedy writer and a producer, and a half-brother, Jason Stein, who is a musician in Chicago, Illinois.
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Amy Schumer started doing stand-up comedy on June 1,2004, when she first performed at Gotham Comedy Club.
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Amy Schumer co-starred in the Comedy Central reality show Reality Bites Back in 2008.
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Amy Schumer served as a co-host of A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus in 2011, later titled Hoppus on Music.
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Amy Schumer did an episode of WTF with Marc Maron podcast on March 3,2011, in which she discusses her early life in more detail.
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Amy Schumer has appeared in roles on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, the Adult Swim mockumentary series Delocated, and the two HBO series, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Girls.
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Amy Schumer was a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show and the Opie and Anthony radio show.
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Amy Schumer acted in three films in 2012: the independent comedy Price Check, the comedy-drama Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and the independent comedy Sleepwalk with Me.
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Amy Schumer appeared on The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen in September 2011, and The Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr in August 2012.
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In June 2012, Amy Schumer began work on a sketch comedy series for Comedy Central.
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Inside Amy Schumer was picked up for a second season that began in 2014.
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In 2014, Amy Schumer embarked on her Back Door Tour to promote the second season of her show.
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Amy Schumer appeared as a guest on an episode of comedian Jerry Seinfeld's Internet series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2014.
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Amy Schumer hosted the 2015 MTV Movie Awards, which took place on April 11.
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Amy Schumer wrote and played her first leading film role in Trainwreck, co-starring Bill Hader, which was released on July 17,2015.
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However, Amy Schumer later revealed the project was on the "back burner".
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Amy Schumer performed as opening act for Madonna on three New York City dates of the singer's Rebel Heart Tour in September 2015.
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Also that year, Amy Schumer wrote a memoir, entitled The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo.
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Amy Schumer made her Broadway debut in 2017 with Steve Martin's comedy play Meteor Shower, about two couples in 1993 who spend an evening with each other.
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Amy Schumer's performance received acclaim and garnered her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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In May 2020, Schumer alongside her husband Chris Fischer starred in an eight-episode cooking show Amy Schumer Learns to Cook, for Food Network which followed Schumer and Fischer cooking while quarantined during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The series was self-shot and featured Amy Schumer donating to The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Program and domestic violence organizations.
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Amy Schumer next appeared in a documentary series Expecting Amy, which she executive produced, following Schumer preparing for a stand-up special while going through a difficult pregnancy for HBO Max, which premiered on July 9,2020.
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Amy Schumer appeared in the 2021 film The Humans, based upon play of the same name directed by Stephen Karam.
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The revival of her sketch series Inside Amy Schumer, which had been on hiatus since 2016, was announced in February 2021, with five additional specials to be released through Paramount+.
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Amy Schumer co-hosted the 94th Academy Awards with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes on March 27,2022.
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In 2015, Amy Schumer was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people.
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In 2015, Amy Schumer was named to Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People list for 2015.
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Amy Schumer has received praise for addressing various social issues through comedy.
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In November 2015, Amy Schumer posed nude for a photo by photographer Annie Leibovitz for 2016 edition of the Pirelli Calendar.
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In January 2016, Amy Schumer was accused of stealing jokes from comedians Tammy Pescatelli, Kathleen Madigan, Wendy Liebman, and Patrice O'Neal.
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On October 4,2018, Amy Schumer was arrested at the US Capitol while protesting the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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Amy Schumer has used her role as a comedian to encourage higher voter turnout and spread awareness about voter ID laws.
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Amy Schumer has dated professional wrestler Nick Nemeth, better known by his ring name Dolph Ziggler, and comedian Anthony Jeselnik.
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Amy Schumer married chef and farmer Chris Fischer on February 13,2018, in Malibu, California.
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Amy Schumer's son was born by caesarean section because of her endometriosis.
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In September 2021, Amy Schumer had her uterus removed to alleviate symptoms related to the condition.