Amy Schumer
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| Birth name | Amy Beth Schumer |
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June 1, 1981 Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand up, theatre, television, film |
| Alma mater | Towson University |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, blue comedy, sketch comedy, insult comedy |
| Subject(s) | Interpersonal relationships, gender dynamics, sex, female and racial stereotypes, everyday life, self-deprecation |
| Relative(s) | Chuck Schumer |
| Website | amyschumer |
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Amy Beth Schumer (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actress, and producer. She is the creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, which debuted on Comedy Central in 2013 and has received a Peabody Award. Schumer has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards for her work on the series, winning for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015. That year, she also wrote and starred in the comedy film Trainwreck, receiving 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.
Schumer was born on June 1, 1981 in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York, to Sandra (née Jones) and Gordon Schumer, who owned a baby furniture company. She has a younger sister, Kim Caramele, who is a comedy writer and a producer, and a brother, Jason Stein, who is a musician in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is second cousin to U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer. Schumer's father was born Jewish and her mother, who is from a Protestant background, converted to Judaism. Schumer was raised Jewish and says she experienced antisemitism as a child.
Through the success of her father's furniture company in Manhattan, Schumer began life in a wealthy family. At age 9, her family 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, she attended South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York, and was voted both "Class Clown" and "Teacher's Worst Nightmare" upon graduation in 1999. She also 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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