Amy Sedaris
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| Born | March 29, 1961 (age 46) Endicott, New York |
| Notable roles | "Jerri Blank" in Strangers with Candy |
Amy Sedaris (born March 29, 1961 in Endicott, New York) is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is the younger sister of humorist David Sedaris. They grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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[edit] Life and career
A former member of Chicago-based Second City and Annoyance Theatre comedy troupes, she is best known for her role as "Jerri Blank" in the television series Strangers with Candy, which she co-wrote with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert. The show was written around Sedaris' impression of 1970s motivational speaker Florrie Fisher, an impression which Sedaris has since developed into a stock character.
Sedaris has appeared in the movies Elf, School of Rock, Maid in Manhattan, the film version of Bewitched and is featured in David Munro's upcoming Full Grown Men. She also starred in the 2006 film adaptation of Strangers with Candy. In addition to acting, she runs a cupcake and cheese ball business ("Dusty Food Cupcakes") out of her kitchen.
Sedaris also hosted the series Film Fanatic on Trio. She coauthored the text-and-picture novel Wigfield with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert, published in 2003. As of 2005, Sedaris writes a monthly advice column in The Believer. She has written a guide to entertaining entitled I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, published in October 2006 by Warner Books.
Along with her brother, author and essayist David Sedaris, Amy has co-authored several plays under the name "The Talent Family." These include: Stump the Host (1993), Stitches (1994), One Woman Shoe (1995), Incident at Cobblers Knob (1997) and The Little Frieda Mysteries (1997) which where all produced and presented by Meryl Vladimer, when she was the artistic director of "the CLUB" at La MaMa E.T.C. Incident at Kobblers Knob was presented and produced by David Rockwell at the Lincoln Center Festival. She co-authored the play The Book of Liz with her brother. She played the stage manager in Paul Rudnick's play The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.
Sedaris appeared in two episodes of Monk, an episode of Wonder Showzen, on Just Shoot Me! as a female version of David Spade's character,and as Carrie Bradshaw's book publisher in Sex and the City.[1] She guest-starred as Randy's cat-obsessed girlfriend in an October 2006 episode of My Name Is Earl.
Sedaris lives with her mini rex rabbit Dusty along with her imaginary boyfriend, Ricky,[2] in Greenwich Village, though on a recent episode of the Late Show with David Letterman, she claimed Ricky had "died." (Her new book claims that she now lives with Ricky's ghost.) Later, on City Arts and Lectures, a radio show recorded in San Francisco, Amy said that Ricky had not really died, which is a good thing since she "couldn't handle the pain." Sedaris rarely discusses her actual romantic life, but she has said that she dated a man from Greece in the late '70s/early '80s, whom she took care of after he had several brain aneurysms.[3]
Sedaris has participated in PETA's anti-fur program.[4]
[edit] See Also
- Hot fruit
- Florrie Fisher
- Jerri Blank
[edit] Bibliography
- Sedaris, Colbert, Dinello. Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not (Hyperion, May 19, 2004) ISBN 0-7868-8696-X
- I Like You : Hospitality Under The Influence (Warner Books, October 16 2006) ISBN 0-446-57884-3
[edit] Selected filmography
- Shrek the Third (2007) (voice)
- Strangers with Candy (2006)
- Full Grown Men (2006)
- Chicken Little (2005) (voice)
- Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
- Bewitched (2005)
- My Baby's Daddy (2004)
- Elf (2003)
- School of Rock (2003)
- Maid in Manhattan (2002)
- Strangers with Candy (1999) (TV series)
- Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Amy Sedaris at the Internet Movie Database
- AmySedaris.com, "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence" by Amy Sedaris
- Amy Sedaris Rocks.com
- November 2001 interview from Paper magazine
- Drinks with Tony radio show interview with Amy Sedaris
- NPR's Weekend Edition interview with Amy Sedaris
- The Bat Segundo Show #88 (2006 podcast interview)
Categories: 1961 births | American comedians | American film actors | American stage actors | American television actors | Greek Orthodox Christians | Comedians | Greek-American actors | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit cast | Living people | People from the Triangle, North Carolina | People from Binghamton, New York | Second City alumni
