Amy Louise Sedaris (/sdr.s/; created March 29, 1961) is an American celebrity, writer, and comic. Sedaris often collaborates with her older brother, humorist and writer David Sedaris. A former member of Chicago-based Second City and Annoyance Theatre humor troupes, her first major foray into television started in 1995 about the Comedy Central sketch show, Exit 57, which likewise starred Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello. The show was cancelled after three seasons. Starting in 1999, Sedaris impersonated Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central show Strangers with Candy. The show, which she co-composed with Dinello and Colbert, was based on Sedaris’s perception of 1970s-age motivational speaker Florrie Fisher. The show ran for three seasons and would later inspire a full length film. Sedaris also hosted the show Film Fanatic on Trio. In 2008, Sedaris appeared on Chelsea Recently during which she gave host Chelsea Handler a demonstration concerning vaginal hygiene together with the assistance of a plush vagina made by fashion designer Todd Oldham. It had been declared in October 2008 that Sedaris would be receiving her very own situation comedy, produced by 20th Century Fox, which she’ll be creating, writing and starring in. Additionally in late 2008, Sedaris did voiceovers in several advertisements for the discount hair salon SuperCuts.
Actor, Screenwriter, Author, Comedian, Playwright, Businessperson, Voice Actor
Education
Jesse O. Sanderson High School
Nationality
United States of America
Parents
Sharon Sedaris, Lou Sedaris
Siblings
David Sedaris, Paul Sedaris, Tiffany Sedaris, Lisa Sedaris, Gretchen Sedaris
Nicknames
Amy Louise Sedaris
Awards
Obie Award for Special Citations, Quill Award for Humor
Nominations
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, Shorty Award for Best in Weird, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress
Movies
Puss in Boots, Strangers with Candy, Shrek the Third, Elf, Chef, Jennifer's Body, Ghost Team, Maid in Manhattan, Tanner Hall, Snow Angels, Dance Flick, Ping Pong Summer, Chicken Little, Old Dogs, The Best and the Brightest, Full Grown Men, Romance & Cigarettes, School of Rock, Beware the Gonzo, My B...
TV Shows
The Heart, She Holler, The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour, Strangers with Candy, Exit 57, BoJack Horseman
Star Sign
Aries
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Quote
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I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them. We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
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If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun. I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.
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Fact
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Release of her book, "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence". [2006]
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Release of the book "The Book of Liz," by Amy and her brother, David Sedaris. [2002]
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Release of her book, "Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not" by Amy with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert. [2003]
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She was nominated for a 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Truth, Justice or the American Way" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Raised Greek Orthodox.
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She is best known for her grotesque yet strangely endearing character "Jerri" from Strangers with Candy (1999).
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Collects decorative cupcake picks.
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Is of half Greek descent.
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Enjoys playing characters who "like themselves".
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Of all her relatives, she was closest to her father.
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Idolized her brother David Sedaris when she was a child.
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Failed first grade.
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Amy keeps a free-roaming mini-rex rabbit named Dusty, which she adopted from a rabbit rescue. Dusty's "bunny condo" was designed by her friend, designer Todd Oldham. Amy named her baked-goods business after her first rabbit, Tattletail, a Netherlandish dwarf. ("Tattletail Industries" has since become "Amy's Cupcakes.") She is active in a NYC rabbit rescue and shelter, and is an honorary educator of the House Rabbit Society.
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She uses the money she gets for appearing on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) to buy a new pair of shoes for her next appearance.
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Wrote the play, "The Book of Liz", with her older brother, David Sedaris.
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Occasionally works as a waitress at Mary's Fish Camp in the West Village.
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Runs a cupcake and cheeseball business out of her Greenwich Village apartment when she is not acting.
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An alumna of the Second City and Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.