Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer
Schumer in 2011
Birth name	Amy Beth Schumer
Born	(1981-06-01) June 1, 1981 (age 43) Upper East Side, New York City, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up television film theatre
Alma mater	Towson University (BA)
Years active	2004–present
Genres	Observational comedy blue comedy sketch comedy insult comedy satire
Subject(s)	Interpersonal relationships sex everyday life self-deprecation current events pop culture
Spouse	Chris Fischer ​ (m. 2018)​
Children	1
Relative(s)	Chuck Schumer (second cousin once removed)
Website	amyschumer.com

Amy Beth Schumer^[1] (born June 1, 1981) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, producer, and director. Schumer 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. From 2013 to 2016, she was 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 was 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) earning a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She then starred in the comedy films Snatched (2017), and I Feel Pretty (2019). She created, produced and starred in the HBO documentary series Expecting Amy (2020), and the Hulu comedy-drama series Life & Beth (2022–2024).

She made her Broadway debut acting in Steve Martin's comedic play Meteor Shower for which she earned a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination. Schumer has earned two Grammy Award nominations for Best Comedy Album for Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, and Best Spoken Word Album for narrating her The New York Times Best Selling memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo (2016).