Amy Beth Schumer, an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and director, was born on June 1, 1981. Before competing on the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing's fifth season in 2007, Schumer dabbled in comedy in the early 2000s. She was the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer from 2013 to 2016. For this work, she won a Peabody Award and five Primetime Emmy nominations, and in 2015, she won Outstanding Variety Sketch Series.
Trainwreck (2015), which Schumer co-wrote and starred in, earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2016, she released a memoir titled The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, which spent two weeks at the top of The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list. Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo and The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, both spoken word albums, were nominated for Grammy Awards in the same year. She made her Broadway debut in Meteor Shower in 2018 and appeared in the comedy film I Feel Pretty, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Gordon David Schumer, the owner of a baby furniture company, and Sandra Jane (née Jones) Schumer welcomed him into the world on June 1, 1981 in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Jewish immigrants from Ukraine were the parents of Schumer's father. She is a second cousin of Senate Majority Leader and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer. Prior to getting married, her mother—a devout Protestant with significant ties to New England—converted to Judaism. Schumer, who was raised Jewish, claims that she experienced antisemitism as a child.
Puritans from the Massachusetts English colony in the 17th century were among her mother's ancestors. As a guest on Finding Your Roots in 2017, Schumer discovered that three children from her ancestor Thomas Tarbell's family were sent to Montreal in 1704 after being seized at Groton, Massachusetts, during a French-Abenaki invasion. The two boys were each adopted by Mohawk families in Kahnawake and fully integrated; the girl was ransomed by a French-Canadian family and eventually joined a French Catholic nun. They wed Mohawk women, and some of their offspring rose to prominence as chiefs. In Kahnawake and Akwesasne, another village reserve on the St. Lawrence River established by the brothers, there are still Mohawk with the last name Tarbell.
Schumer's family was prosperous when she was a young girl thanks to the success of her father's furniture business in Manhattan. Her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis either then or when she was 12 (sources differ), following the failure of his business and subsequent bankruptcy when she was nine years old. After that, her parents got divorced.
Schumer lived in Rockville Centre, New York, before moving to Long Island with her mother, where she attended South Side High School. She received votes for "Class Clown" and "Teacher's Worst Nightmare" during her 1999 graduation. She went to the Rockville Centre Reform synagogue's Hebrew school, the Central Synagogue of Nassau County, whose board her mother was on.
After high school, Schumer relocated close to Baltimore, Maryland, where she enrolled at Towson University and earned a theatre degree in 2003. After graduating from college, she relocated to New York City where she worked as a waitress and barman while spending two years studying at the William Esper Studio. She also briefly moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she worked as a pedicab driver (with a man she described as abusive).
She has a half-brother named Jason Stein who is a musician in Chicago, Illinois, and a younger sister named Kim Caramele who writes and produces comedic material.
Career After relocating to New York City and receiving her theatre degree from Towson University in 2003, Schumer portrayed a young lady who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in the Off-Off-Broadway comedy Keeping Abreast. On June 1st, 2004, she made her stand-up comedy debut at the Gotham Comedy Club. Before competing on Last Comic Standing in 2007, she taped a Live at Gotham episode for Comedy Central; she subsequently stated that she viewed the episode as her "big break."
She advanced to the finals of the fifth season of the NBC reality television talent competition Last Comic Standing and finished fourth, rebounding from an unsuccessful audition for an earlier season. In April 2011, Schumer remarked, "Last Comic was super fun. Since I had been performing stand-up for almost two years, there was no pressure on me, so I had a terrific time. I was not expected to perform well. So every step I took forward was a pleasant surprise. On the programme, I was honest, and it helped me.
In 2008, Schumer participated as a co-star in the Comedy Central reality programme Reality Bites Back. She participated in a Butterfinger advertising campaign in 2009. Between 2007 and 2012, Schumer appeared frequently on the Fox News late-night programme Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld. On April 2, 2010, she had her first Comedy Central Presents special air. In 2011, she co-hosted A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus, which was afterwards renamed Hoppus on Music. Additionally, she has written for Cosmopolitan.
On March 3, 2011, Schumer recorded an episode (#154) of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in which she goes into greater detail about her upbringing. On the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, the Adult Swim mockumentary series Delocated, and the two HBO programmes Curb Your Enthusiasm and Girls, Schumer has made guest appearances. She also frequently appeared as a guest on the radio shows Opie and Anthony and The Howard Stern Show.
The independent comedy Price Check, the comedy-drama Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and the indie comedy Sleepwalk with Me were the three films in which she appeared in 2012. Additionally, in September 2011 and August 2012, respectively, Schumer participated in the Comedy Central roasts of Charlie Sheen and Roseanne Barr.
In 2011, Schumer issued the stand-up comedy album Cutting. On August 18, 2012, Comedy Central debuted her stand-up comedy show Mostly Sex Stuff to rave reviews. In February 2012, Schumer remarked, "I don't like the observational stuff. I enjoy discussing topics that are taboo, such as the darkest, most serious aspect of oneself. I discuss topics that everyone can relate to—and some people can't—such as life, sex, and personal anecdotes.
Schumer started developing a sketch comedy series for Comedy Central in June 2012. Schumer played "heightened versions" of herself in single-camera scenes on the programme. The segments are connected by clips from Schumer's stand-up performance. Comedy Central premiered Inside Amy Schumer on April 30, 2013. A second season of Inside Amy Schumer was ordered and premiered in 2014. 2012 saw the debut of the behind-the-scenes programme Behind Amy Schumer. On April 21, 2015, the third season debuted, and the following day, a fourth season was ordered.
In order to advertise the second season of her show, Schumer set off on her Back Door Tour in 2014. Bridget Everett, who Schumer lists as her favourite live performer, brought the evening to a close. In 2014, she further made a guest appearance on one of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee episodes.
On April 11, she presided over the 2015 MTV Movie Awards ceremony. Trainwreck, a 2015 movie co-starring Bill Hader and written by Amy Schumer, was released on July 17, 2015.
In August 2015, Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she and Amy Schumer intended to star together in a movie for which they and Kim Schumer, Schumer's sister, were also penning the script. The proposal, according to Schumer, was put on the "back burner" later. On three of Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour dates in New York City in September 2015, Schumer opened for the diva.
Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, Schumer's comedy special, made its HBO debut on October 17, 2015. It received three Primetime Emmy nominations in 2016 for Outstanding Variety Special, Writing, and Direction. She was nominated for the Grammy for Best Comedy Album as a result of it as well.
On August 26, Schumer kicked off her debut world tour in Dublin. Schumer published a memoir in that same year under the title The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo. It earned her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album and held the top spot on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for two weeks in September 2016.
With Steve Martin's comic drama Meteor Shower, about two couples who spend an evening together in 1993, Schumer makes her Broadway debut in 2017. Her work was praised, and she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play as a result. She starred in the comedy movie I Feel Pretty in 2018.
On June 21, 2018, the original podcast Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith was made available on Spotify. The podcast features Schumer and her closest pals in comedy, Keith Robinson, Rachel Feinstein, and Bridget Everett as they discuss comedy, pop culture, politics, and their personal lives.
Amy Schumer Learns to Cook, an eight-episode cooking series that Schumer and her husband Chris Fischer starred in for the Food Network in May 2020, featured the couple as they prepared meals while they were under quarantine due to the COVID-19 epidemic. The self-produced series also showed Schumer making donations to domestic violence and The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Programme. The first day was May 11, 2020. She then had an appearance in the HBO Max documentary series Expecting Amy, which she also executive produced and which followed comedian Amy Schumer as she prepared for a stand-up special while dealing with a challenging pregnancy. It debuted on July 9, 2020.
Schumer made an appearance in the Stephen Karam-directed 2021 movie The Humans, which was adapted on the play of the same name. Her 10-episode comedy series Life & Beth, which debuted on Hulu on March 18, 2022, was written, directed, and starring her. In February 2021, it was revealed that Inside Amy Schumer, which had been on hiatus since 2016, will resume. Five further specials would be made available through Paramount+.
She was chosen to play a guest part in Only Murders in the Building's second season in January 2022. On March 27, 2022, she and Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes co-hosted the 94th Academy Awards. She joined Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story cast in June.
Influences
Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Wendy Liebman, and Joan Rivers are among the comedians who have influenced Amy Schumer. She also referred to Goldie Hawn, an actress and producer, as one of her "heroes".
In the press
One of Time magazine's top 100 most important individuals in 2015 was Amy Schumer. Schumer was also included in Barbara Walters' 2015 list of the 10 Most Fascinating People. Schumer has won recognition for using comedy to address a variety of social issues.
She received criticism from The Guardian's Monica Heisey for having "a shockingly large blind spot around race" in June 2015. On Twitter, Schumer reacted and wrote, "I go in and out of being an irreverent idiot. Making racially insensitive jokes is one example of this. You might call it "lazy" or have a "blind spot for racism," but you're wrong. I am not racist, and this is only a joke. In July 2020, Kyndall Cunningham of The Daily Beast once again criticised Schumer for her prior writing, which included "objectifying black men" and labelling Latina women as "crazy." Cunningham called her "sudden" choice to back the Black Lives Matter movement "befuddling and laughable".
Several of Schumer's skits from Inside Amy Schumer went viral online throughout 2015, inspiring articles about rape culture, sex, and feminism.
Following a tragic shooting at a screening of Trainwreck in Louisiana, Schumer pushed for tighter gun control regulations and more money for mental health services.
For the 2016 Pirelli Calendar, photographer Annie Leibovitz captured Schumer in a naked pose in November 2015. "Beautiful, gross, strong, thin, fat, pretty, ugly, sexy, disgusting, flawless, woman," said Schumer in a tweet accompanying the image. I'm grateful.
Schumer was charged with copying jokes from Tammy Pescatelli, Kathleen Madigan, Wendy Liebman, and Patrice O'Neal in January 2016. Schumer refuted the claims. Marc Maron and Dave Rubin, among others, defended Schumer. Later, Pescatelli expressed regret, saying that it had "gone too far" and presumably involved "parallel thinking".
Schumer was detained on October 4 at the US Capitol for his protests against Brett Kavanaugh's appointment as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.
Additionally, she has advocated for increased voter participation and raised awareness of voter ID legislation through her work as a comedian.
In his personal life, Schumer has dated comedian Anthony Jeselnik and professional wrestler Nick Nemeth, best known by his ring name Dolph Ziggler. On February 13, 2018, Schumer wed chef and farmer Chris Fischer in Malibu, California. She revealed that she was expecting their first child in October 2018. Schumer gave birth to a child named Gene on May 5. After realising that "Gene Attell" sounded like "genital," Schumer altered Gene's middle name from Attell to David in honour of comic Dave Attell. Due to her endometriosis, she had to have a caesarean surgery to deliver her baby. Schumer underwent uterine removal in September 2021 to treat the condition's symptoms.
Acting credits
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2006 | Sense Memory | Short film | |
2012 | Sleepwalk with Me | Amy | Uncredited |
Price Check | Lila | ||
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World | Lacey/Woman #1 | ||
2015 | Trainwreck | Amy Townsend | Also writer |
2017 | Snatched | Emily Middleton | |
Thank You for Your Service | Amanda Doster | ||
2018 | I Feel Pretty | Renee Bennett | Also producer |
2021 | The Humans | Aimee Blake | |
2022 | Bros | Eleanor Roosevelt | |
2023 | Trolls Band Together | Velvet (voice) | Post-Production |
TBA | Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story | TBA | Post-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2007 | Live at Gotham | Herself | Episode: "2.6" |
2007 | Last Comic Standing | Herself | 7 episodes |
2008 | Reality Bites Back | Herself | 7 episodes |
2009 | Cupid | Heather | Episode: "The Tommy Brown Affair" |
2009 | 30 Rock | Stylist | Episode: "Mamma Mia" |
2010 | John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show | Herself | Episode: "1.4" |
2010 | Comedy Central Presents | Herself | Episode: "14.14" |
2011 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Teammate #2 | Episode: "Mister Softee" |
2011 | Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen | Roaster | TV special |
2012 | Delocated | Trish | 8 episodes |
2012 | Louie | Diane (voice) | Episode: "Barney/Never" |
2012 | Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr | Roaster | TV special |
2012 | The Eric Andre Show | Interviewer | Episode: "Brandi Glanville" |
2012 | Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff | Herself | Stand-up special |
2012 | Dave's Old Porn | Herself | Episode: "2.3" |
2013 | Women Who Kill | Herself | Stand-up special with Rachel Feinstein, Marina Franklin and Nikki Glaser |
2013–14 | Girls | Angie | 2 episodes |
2013–16, | Inside Amy Schumer | Herself, various characters | 44 episodes; also creator, writer, executive producer, director |
2015 | 2015 MTV Movie Awards | Herself (host) | TV special |
2015 | BoJack Horseman | Irving Jannings (voice) | Episode: "Chickens" |
2015–22 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | 3 episodes |
2015 | Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo | Herself | Stand-up special |
2016 | The Simpsons | Mrs. Burns (voice) | Episode: "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" |
2016 | Family Guy | Factory Crew Leader (voice) | Episode: "The Boys in the Band" |
2016 | Bob's Burgers | Young Lady (voice) | Episode: "Flu-ouise" |
2017 | Amy Schumer: The Leather Special | Herself | Stand-up special |
2017 | Celebrity Family Feud | Herself | Episode: "Kelly Clarkson vs. Amy Schumer and Bindi Irwin vs. Chrissy Metz" |
2018 | Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attell | Herself | 1 episode |
2019 | Crashing | Herself | Episode: "The Christian Tour" |
2019 | No Activity | Herself | Episode: "Tooth and Nail" |
2019 | Amy Schumer: Growing | Herself | Stand-up special |
2020 | Amy Schumer Learns to Cook | Herself | 8 episodes |
2020 | Class of 2020: In This Together | Herself | Television special |
2020 | Expecting Amy | Herself | 3 episodes |
2022–present | Life & Beth | Beth | 10 episodes; also writer, director, and executive producer |
2022 | 94th Academy Awards | Herself (co-host) | Television special |
2022 | Only Murders in the Building | Herself | 2 episodes |
2022 | Gutsy | Herself | Episode: "Gutsy Women Have the Last Laugh" |
Quick Bio
Nickname | Amy |
Gender | Female |
Age | 41 years old (in 2023) |
Date of Birth | June 1, 1981 |
Full Name | Amy Beth Schumer |
Profession | Stand-Up Comedian and Actress |
Nationality | American |
Birthplace | Upper East Side, New York, United States |
Religion | Judaism |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Qualification | B.A. in Theater |
School | South Side High School |
College | Towson University, William Esper Studio |
Profession | Stand-Up Comedian and Actress |
Net Worth | USD $16 Million Approx. |
Height, Weight & Physical Stats
Body Measurements | 38-28-39 Inches |
Bodytype | Hourglass |
Height | 5 Feet 7 Inches (1.70 m) |
Weight | 70 kg (155 lbs) |
Waist | 28 Inches |
Hair Color | Blonde |
Eye Color | Blue |
Shoe Size | 8.5 US |
Dress Size | 12 US |
Family & Relatives
Father | Gordon Schumer |
Mother | Sandra Schumer |
Brother | Jason Stein |
Sister | Kim Caramele |
Marital Status | Married |
Husband | Chris Fischer (m. 2018) |
No. of Children | 1 Son |
Son | Gene Attell Fischer |
Past Relationships | Amber Rose (2015) |
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