• Faith: Judaism
• Career: Actress
• Birthday:  June 01, 1981

Amy Schumer is an actress, stand-up comedian, producer, writer, and director. She 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 co-producer, creator, 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 Seris in 2015.

Schumer wrote and made her film debut in a starring role in “Trainwreck,” for which she received nominations for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. In 2016, she published a memoir, The Girl with the Lower Back Tatto, which held the top position on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for two weeks. The same year, she was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Best Comedy Album for “Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo” and Best Spoken Word Album for The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo.

In 2018, she starred in the comedy movie “I Feel Pretty” and garnered a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play nomination for her Broadway debut in “Meteor Shower.” Schumer was born in 1981, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, to Sandra Jane and Gordon Schumer, who owned a baby furniture company. Through the success of her father’s furniture company in Manhattan, Schumer’s household was wealthy during her early years. However, when she was nine years old, her father’s business failed, and he went bankrupt. Some time afterward, her parents divorced, and Schumer moved to Long Island with her mother.

She attended South Side High School, where she was voted “Class Clown” and “Teacher’s Worst Nightmare” upon graduation in 1999. She attended Hebrew school of the Central Synagogue of Nassau County, a Reform synagogue in Rockville Centre, New York, on whose board her mother served. After high school, Schumer moved near Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended Towson University. In 2003, she graduated with a degree in theater. 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. She also, for a period, relocated to Santa Barbara, California, where she worked as a pedicab driver. Schumer has a younger sister, Kim, and a half-brother, Jason.

What religion is Amy Schumer?

Schumer’s father was born to a Jewish family from Ukraine. Her mother, who’s from a Protestant background, converted to Judaism before her marriage. Schumer was raised Jewish and says she dealt with antisemitism as a child. She opened up about her childhood experiences with antisemitism in the latest season of her Hulu series “Life & Beth.” She told Los Angeles magazine in an interview, “When we were writing this season, I really wanted to show these moments of antisemitism that I grew up with because it was so normalized for me growing up, and I think for so many of us, these jokes and these stereotypes about Jewish people are just accepted.”

She added, “Even as a comedian, I would make Jewish jokes about myself, and only in recent years have I said it’s not okay. It was hurtful, and it is harmful. I’m really glad that we decided to have that be a part of the flashbacks of young Beth’s life. I’m very proud of my Jewish heritage, and I want to show love to my community.”