Amy Schumer

At 43 years old, Amy Schumer has this physical status:

Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian and actress.

She 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.

Since 2013, she has been 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 for which Schumer has been 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), for which she received nominations for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

She 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.

The same year, she was nominated for two Grammy Award, for Best Comedy Album for Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo and Best Spoken Word Album for The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo.

In 2018, she starred in the comedy film I Feel Pretty and garnered a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination for her Broadway debut in Meteor Shower. In 2018, Schumer married chef Chris Fischer with whom she has a son.

Early life and background

Schumer was born on June 1, 1981, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, to Sandra Jane (née Jones) and Gordon David Schumer, who owned a baby-furniture company.

Schumer's father was born to a Jewish family from Ukraine. She is a second cousin of U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Her mother, who is from a Protestant background and has deep New England roots, converted to Judaism before her marriage. Schumer was raised Jewish and says she had to deal with antisemitism as a child.

Her mother's ancestry included Puritans in the 17th-century English colony of Massachusetts. As a guest on Finding Your Roots in 2017, Schumer learned that in 1704, three children from her ancestor Thomas Tarbell's family were captured at Groton, Massachusetts, in a French-Abenaki raid and taken to Montreal. The girl was ransomed by a French-Canadian family and ultimately joined a French Catholic convent; the two boys were each adopted by Mohawk families at Kahnawake and became thoroughly assimilated. They married Mohawk women and some of their descendants became chiefs. There are still Mohawk by the surname Tarbell in Kahnawake and Akwesasne, another village reserve on the St. Lawrence River founded by the brothers.

Through the success of her father's furniture company in Manhattan, Schumer's household was wealthy during her early years. When she was nine years old, her father's business failed and he went bankrupt, and either then or when she was 12 (sources differ), her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Some time afterward, her parents divorced.

Moving to Long Island with her mother, Schumer lived in Rockville Centre, New York, and attended South Side High School. She was voted both "Class Clown" and "Teacher's Worst Nightmare" upon graduation in 1999. She attended the Hebrew school of the Central Synagogue of Nassau County, a Reform synagogue in Rockville Centre, on whose board her mother served.

Schumer moved near Baltimore, Maryland, after high school when she attended Towson University; she graduated with a degree in theater in 2003. She 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. She also for a period relocated to Santa Barbara, California (with a boyfriend she characterized as abusive), where she worked as a pedicab driver.

She 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.

Personal life

Schumer has dated professional wrestler Nick Nemeth, better known by his ring name Dolph Ziggler, and comedian Anthony Jeselnik. Schumer married chef and farmer Chris Fischer on February 13, 2018, in Malibu, California. In October 2018, she announced that she was expecting their first child. On May 5, 2019, Schumer gave birth to a boy, Gene. Schumer initially gave Gene the middle name Attell—in honor of comedian Dave Attell—but changed it to David after realizing that "Gene Attell" sounded like "genital". Her son was born by caesarean section because of her endometriosis. In September 2021, Schumer had her uterus removed to alleviate symptoms related to the condition.

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Career

Schumer played a young woman diagnosed with breast cancer in the Off-Broadway black comedy Keeping Abreast, graduating with a degree in theater from Towson University in 2003 and then relocating to New York City. She first performed at Gotham Comedy Club on June 1, 2004, when she first appeared at Gotham Comedy Club. She recorded a Live at Gotham episode for Comedy Central in 2007 before coming on Last Comic Standing; she later stated that the episode was her "big break."

She progressed to the finals of the fifth season of the NBC reality television talent competition show Last Comic Standing after an unsuccessful audition for a previous season. "Last Comic was completely amusing," Schumer said in April 2011. I had a blast because there was no pressure on me; I had been doing stand-up for two years. I wasn't supposed to do well. Well, it was a joy every time I advanced. "I kept it real on the show, and it did a good job."

In 2008, Schumer co-starred in the Comedy Central reality show Reality Bites Back. She appeared in an advertisement campaign for Butterfinger in 2009. Schumer appeared on Fox News late-night program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld between 2007 and 2012. On April 2, 2010, the first Comedy Central Presents special aired. In 2011, she appeared as a co-host of A Different Spin with Mark Hoppus, later called Hoppus on Music. She has also written for Cosmopolitan.

Schumer appeared in an episode (#154) of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast on March 3, 2011, in which she explores her early life in greater detail. Schumer has appeared on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, the Adult Swim mockumentary series Delocated, and the two HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm and Girls. She appeared on The Howard Stern Show and the Opie and Anthony radio shows, as well as a regular guest on The Howard Stern Show and the Opie and Anthony radio show.

Price Check, the comedy-drama Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, and Sleepwalk with Me were two of three films she appeared in in in 2012: the independent comedy Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Schumer appeared on The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen in September 2011, and Roseanne Barr's The Comedy Central Roast in August 2012.

In 2011, Schumer's Cutting was released as a stand-up comedy collection. Mostly Sex Stuff, her stand-up comedy special, premiered on Comedy Central on August 18, 2012, to rave reviews. "I don't like the observation stuff," Schumer said in February 2012. I like writing about the stuff that no one else discusses, such as the darkest, most important part of yourself. I talk about life and sex, personal accounts, and stuff that everyone can relate to, but others can't."

Schumer began working on a sketch comedy collection for Comedy Central in June 2012. Schumer appeared in single-camera vignettes of her "heightened versions" of herself. The vignettes are linked to a video of Schumer's stand-up. Inside Amy Schumer's show premiered on Comedy Central on April 30, 2013. Amy Schumer was selected for a second season, which began in 2014. Behind Amy Schumer, a behind-the-scenes miniseries, premiered in 2012. On April 21, 2015, the third season premiered, with a fourth season ordered the same day.

Schumer started backdoor Tour in 2014 to promote her show's second season. Bridget Everett, whom Schumer cites as her favorite live performer, was the show's close. In 2014, she appeared as a guest on an episode of comedian Jerry Seinfeld's Internet series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

She hosted the 2015 MTV Movie Awards, which took place on April 11. Schumer wrote and appeared in Trainwreck, co-starring Bill Hader, which was released on July 17, 2015.

Jennifer Lawrence and Schumer said in August 2015 that they and Schumer's sister Kim were co-writing a screenplay. Schumer later revealed that the initiative was on the "back burner." On three New York City dates of Madonna's Rebel Heart Tour in September 2015, Schumer opened the show for the first time.

Schumer's comedy special Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo premiered on HBO on October 17, 2015. In 2016, it was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Variety Special, Writing, and Directing. In addition, it earned her a nomination for Best Comedy Album at the Grammy Awards.

Schumer began her first world tour in Dublin on August 26. Schumer's book The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo was also published in the same year. In September 2016, it ranked first on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List for two weeks, earning her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Schumer appeared in Meteor Shower, Steve Martin's comedies about two couples in 1993 who spend an evening with each other, making her Broadway debut in 2017. Her performance earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Play by Tony Award. She appeared in the comedy film I Feel Pretty in 2018.

On June 21, 2018, Spotify launched Amy Schumer Presents: 3 Girls, 1 Keith, starring Schumer and her closest comedy colleagues Rachel Feinstein, Bridget Everett, and Keith Robinson as they talk about humor, pop culture, politics, and their personal lives.

Schumer and her partner Chris Fischer appeared in an eight-episode cooking competition on Food Network in May 2020, after Schumer and Fischer's quarantined during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schumer appeared on the series as a self-shotter and also featured Schumer in support of The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Program and domestic violence charities. It premiered on May 11, 2020. Following Schumer's preparation for a stand-up special during a difficult pregnancy for HBO Max, she next appeared in a documentary series titled Expecting Amy, which she also produced.

Schumer appeared in the 2021 film The Humans, based on Stephen Karam's play of the same name. She wrote, produced, and appeared in Life & Beth, a 10-episode comedy series for Hulu that premiered on March 18, 2022. Inside Amy Schumer, a sketch show that had been on hold since 2016, was announced in February 2021, with five new specials to be released through Paraphrasedoutput.

She appeared as a guest on Only Murders in the Building in January 2022. Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes co-hosted the 94th Academy Awards with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes on March 27, 2022. She appeared in Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story by Jerry Seinfeld in June.

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