Early life

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 is Jewish and her mother is Protestant. Schumer was raised Jewish and 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 nine, her family went bankrupt, and her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; her parents divorced three years later. 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.

Schumer moved to Baltimore, Maryland after high school where she attended Towson University, graduating 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.

Career

Schumer portrayed a young woman diagnosed with breast cancer in the off-Broadway black comedy Keeping Abreast. She started doing stand-up comedy on June 1, 2004, when she first performed at Gotham Comedy Club. In 2007, she recorded a Live at Gotham episode for Comedy Central before appearing on Last Comic Standing; she said in August 2012 that she thought of the episode as her "big break."

After not passing an audition for an earlier season, she advanced to the finals of the fifth season of the NBC reality television talent show Last Comic Standing and placed fourth. Schumer said in April 2011, "Last Comic was totally fun. I had a great time because there was no pressure on me; I had been doing stand-up around two years. I wasn't supposed to do well. So every time I advanced it was a happy surprise. I kept it honest on the show and it served me well."

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

Schumer did an episode (#154) of WTF with Marc Maron podcast on March 3, 2011, in which she discusses her early life in more detail. Schumer has appeared in roles on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock, the Adult Swim mockumentary series Delocated, and the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm and Girls. She 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. Schumer also appeared on The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen in September 2011, and The Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr in August 2012.

Schumer released a standup comedy album, Cutting, in 2011. Her standup comedy special Mostly Sex Stuff premiered on Comedy Central on August 18, 2012, to positive reviews. Schumer said in February 2012, "I don't like the observational stuff. I like tackling the stuff nobody else talks about, like the darkest, most serious thing about yourself. I talk about life and sex and personal stories and stuff everybody can relate to, and some can't."

In June 2012, Schumer began work on a sketch comedy series for Comedy Central. The show features single-camera vignettes of Schumer playing "heightened versions" of herself. The vignettes are linked together with footage of Schumer's stand-up. The show, Inside Amy Schumer, premiered on Comedy Central on April 30, 2013. Inside Amy Schumer was picked up for a second season that began in 2014. A behind-the-scenes miniseries entitled Behind Amy Schumer premiered in 2012. The third season premiered on April 21, 2015, with a fourth season ordered the same day.

In 2014, Schumer embarked on her Back Door Tour to promote the second season of her show. The show featured closing act Bridget Everett, whom Schumer cites as her favorite live performer. She also appeared as a guest on an episode of comedian Jerry Seinfeld's Internet series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in 2014.

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

In August 2015, Jennifer Lawrence said she and Schumer planned to co-star in a film for which they and Schumer's sister Kim were co-writing a screenplay. Schumer performed as opening act for Madonna on three New York City dates of the singer's Rebel Heart Tour in September 2015.

On October 17, 2015, Schumer's new comedy special, entitled Amy Schumer Live at the Apollo, premiered on HBO.

In the media

In 2015, Schumer was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. In 2015, Schumer was also named to Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People list for 2015. Schumer has received much praise for the subversive feminism of her comedy, and for cleverly addressing various social issues through comedy. In June 2015, Monica Heisey of The Guardian criticised her for "a shockingly large blind spot around race." Schumer responded on Twitter, stating "I go in and out of playing an irreverent idiot. That includes making dumb jokes involving race... You can call it a 'blind spot for racism' or 'lazy,' but you are wrong. It is a joke..I am not racist."

Throughout 2015, several of Schumer's skits in Inside Amy Schumer went viral online, sparking think pieces regarding sex, feminism, and rape culture.

After a fatal shooting took place at a showing of Trainwreck in Louisiana, Schumer became an advocate for stricter gun control laws and increased mental health funding.

On November 30, 2015, The Daily Beast reported that Schumer posed nude for a photo by photographer Annie Leibovitz for 2016 edition of the Pirelli Calendar. Schumer tweeted her photo, writing "Beautiful, gross, strong, thin, fat, pretty, ugly, sexy, disgusting, flawless, woman. Thank you."

In January 2016, Schumer was accused of stealing jokes from comedians Tammy Pescatelli, Kathleen Madigan, Wendy Liebman, and Patrice O'Neal Schumer denied the allegations. Other comedians, such as Marc Maron and Dave Rubin, stood up for Schumer. Pescatelli later apologized, stating it had "gone too far," and Liebman stated she believed she and Schumer had engaged in parallel thinking.

Personal life

Schumer has dated professional wrestler Nick Nemeth a.k.a. Dolph Ziggler, as well as comedian Anthony Jeselnik.

In January 2016, she indicated she was in a relationship with Chicago furniture designer Ben Hanisch.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Sense Memory		Short film
2012	Sleepwalk with Me	Amy	Uncredited
2012	Price Check	Lila
2012	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World	Lacey/Woman #1
2015	Trainwreck	Amy Townsend	Also writer
2016	Thank You for Your Service		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	Amy Schumer: Mostly Sex Stuff	Herself	Stand-up special
2012	Dave's Old Porn	Herself	Episode: "2.3"
2013-14	Girls	Angie	2 episodes
2013-present	Inside Amy Schumer	Herself, Various characters	Also creator, writer, executive producer, director
2015	2015 MTV Movie Awards	Herself (host)	TV special
2015	BoJack Horseman	Irving Jannings (voice)	Episode: "Chickens"
2015	Saturday Night Live	Herself (host)	Episode: "Amy Schumer/The Weeknd"
2015	Amy Schumer: Live from the Apollo	Herself	Stand-up special

Discography

• Cutting (2011)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref(s)
2014	American Comedy Award	Best Comedy Actress - TV	Inside Amy Schumer	Nominated
	Critics' Choice Television Award	Best Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
	GALECA Dorian Award	Wilde Wit of the Year		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series	Inside Amy Schumer	Nominated
2015	People's Choice Award	Favorite Sketch Comedy TV Show		Nominated
	Writers Guild of America Award	Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) - Series		Nominated
	Peabody Award			Won
	Critics' Choice Television Award	Best Actress in a Comedy Series		Won
	Television Critics Association Award	Outstanding Achievement in Comedy		Won
		Individual Achievement in Comedy		Won
	Teen Choice Award	Choice Comedian		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Variety Sketch Series	Inside Amy Schumer	Won
		Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated
		Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series		Nominated
		Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series		Nominated
	Britannia Awards	Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy		Won
2016	Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association	Best Original Screenplay	Trainwreck	Nominated
	People's Choice Award	Favorite Comedic Movie Actress		Nominated
	Golden Globe Award	Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical		Nominated
	Chicago Film Critics Association	Most Promising Performer		Nominated
	Critics' Choice Movie Award	Best Actress in a Comedy		Won
		MVP Award		Won
	Denver Film Critics Society	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
	Writers Guild of America Award	Best Original Screenplay		Nominated
		Best Comedy/Variety - Sketch Series	Inside Amy Schumer	Won
		Best Comedy/Variety (Music, Awards, Tributes) - Specials	Amy Schumer: Live at The Apollo	Nominated
	GALECA Dorian Award	Wilde Wit of the Year		Won

Charities

Amy Schumer supports the following charitable causes: Gun Control, ALS (amyrotrophic lateral sclerosis).

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