Maria Bamford
Maria Bamford was born in Port Hueneme, California, United States on September 3rd, 1970 and is the Comedian. At the age of 54, Maria Bamford biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Maria Elizabeth Sheldon Bamford (born September 3, 1970) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and voice actress.
She is best known for her portrayal of her dysfunctional family and self-deprecating comedies that feature jokes of depression and anxiety. The Burning Bridges Tour, her first comedy album and tour, was released in 2003, followed by her second album, How to Win! Unwanted Thought Syndrome (2009), 2007; third edition (1999).
Lucky Numbers, her first film appearance, (2000), before giving her voice to characters on several television shows, including Shriek on CatDog and several others on American Dad. BoJack Horseman, Ugly Americans, Adventure Time, and American Dad!
Stuart Little 2 (2002), Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2003), Barnyard (2006), Heckler (2007), and her most recent film, Hell & Back (2015) are among Bamford's film projects.
In the Talking Tom and Friends web series, she appears on Ginger and Talking Becca.
She burst into television by appearing in Louie (2012), Arrested Development (2012), and WordGirl (2014).
In 2014, she received the American Comedy Award for Best Club Comic. Her life story is chronicled in Netflix's latest film Lady Dynamite, in which she stars as the lead.
Her research has earned critical acclaim as well as controversy, as her subjects range from lighter to darker topics such as suicide and psychiatric disorders.
Early life
Maria Bamford was born on September 3, 1970 at the Port Hueneme Naval Base in Port Hueneme, California. Joel Bamford, her father, was serving as a Navy doctor. She grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, and attended Chester Park Elementary and Duluth Marshall School. She has said that when she was younger, she was often concerned with her anxiety, depression, and "Unwanted Thought Syndrome," a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
She attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, after graduating high school. At the start of her junior year in 1992, she transferred to University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She became the first female member of the College's improvised comedy troupe, The Improverts. After a year in Scotland, she returned to her home state and enrolled in the University of Minnesota, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. At age 19, she performed at Stevie Ray's Comedy Cabaret in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Personal life
In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Bamford said she had been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). "The new gladiator sandal" is her bipolarity in a stand-up.
She revealed she was engaged to artist Scott Marvel Cassidy during her appearance at the Neptune Theater in Seattle on December 11, 2014. In 2015, the two were married at a private house. Sarah Seidelmann, who is a life coach and shaman, has one sister. She has a private residence in Los Angeles, California, as well as a one in Altadena, California. She adores pugs and has more than a single senior pug at any given time.
Career
Bamford has been in many movies and television shows, including cartoon voices. She was the voice of Shriek DuBois in Nickelodeon's CatDog, a wide selection of secondary characters in Cartoon Network's Adventure Time, and Mrs. Botsford, Violet, and Leslie on the long running PBS educational series WordGirl. She does impersonations, including her mother and her agent. Her stand-up comedy often takes the form of vignettes rather than the standard setup and punchline format.
Bamford was featured in the documentary series The Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime, and appears in short skits titled The Maria Bamford Show, broadcast on the website Super Deluxe. She appears on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death-Ray.
Her album Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, produced by Comedy Central Records, was released in April 2009 and includes a DVD containing The Maria Bamford Show episodes. During the Christmas 2009-2010 shopping seasons, she was featured in a series of Target commercials, portraying an overachieving shopper determined to be first in line. For Christmas 2009, she released a free stand-up special online as a gift to her fans.
While working in voice-over shows and advertisements in Los Angeles, she was hospitalized three times over the course of 18 months for nervous breakdowns. She commented on the hospital visits by saying "it was the responsible thing to do" after she felt "suicidal" and "dispirited".
In 2012 she released The Special Special Special for download through Chill.com. The special was recorded at her own home in Los Angeles with only her parents present as the audience.
In 2013, she created and starred in a web series called Ask My Mom. She plays both herself and her mother, who answers questions sent in by fans. Also in 2013, she appeared as herself in one episode of the interview web series All Growz Up with Melinda Hill. She voiced Pema in Nickelodeon cartoon The Legend of Korra.
In 2013, she appeared in season four of Arrested Development as Debrie Bardeaux, Tobias Fünke's love interest. The series creator noted her as a comical "genius" and said that "real artists [like Maria] talk about things that nobody else talks about, and talk about them candidly." She remained on the series until it concluded in 2019.
She appeared in Season 3 of Louis C.K.'s Louie. In 2014, she co-created, wrote, and starred in The Program with Melinda Hill, produced by Funny or Die. In 2014, she won the American Comedy Award for Best Club Comic. In January 2016, she was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where host Stephen Colbert called her his "favorite comedian on planet Earth".
In early 2016, Netflix announced an original series based on her life, called Lady Dynamite, starring her, released in May 2016. She was invited to the writing process. She did not write any episodes, but was often in the writers' room, discussing ideas and "hanging out". The writers had freedom to modify her experiences for creative purposes.
In May 2017, she was the commencement speaker for the University of Minnesota's College of Liberal Arts. During the speech, she gave a check made out to Sallie Mae for $5,000, her net speaking fee, to a graduate in the audience who had student loans.
In April 2018, she appeared on season 13 of Worst Cooks in America. She was eliminated in the fourth episode.