Name	Amy Sedaris
Height	5' 1½"
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	29 March 1961
Place of Birth	Endicott, New York, USA
Famous for

"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." Amy Sedaris

Raised in North Carolina, Amy Sedaris moved to Chicago in the 1980s and got her start at Second City, where she met fellow comics Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello, with whom she would eventually form a longstanding collaborative relationship. The struggling comedian spent the early 1990’s with the improvisational comedy troupe, alongside her brother David, before relocating to New York City to write plays with David. Dubbing themselves "The Talent Family," Amy and David wrote, directed and starred in a number of plays, including “Jamboree, Stump the Host” (1993), “Stitches” (1994) and “One Woman Shoe” (1995).

They subsequently were joined by fellow Second City alumni Colbert and Dinello, with whom Amy wrote and starred on Comedy Central’s first original sketch comedy show “Exit 57.” The 30-minute show met with a fair amount of critical acclaim despite only lasting for twelve episodes over the course of two seasons (1995 – 1996) and received CableACE nominations in 1995 for writing, performance and best comedy series.

Afterward, Amy rejoined David authoring the play “The Little Frieda Mysteries” and made her film debut with a small role as a scholar in writer-director Daniel Taplitz's dark comedy Commandments (1997), starring Aidan Quinn, Courteney Cox Arquette and Anthony LaPaglia. She followed it up with an appearance in the next year’s film, Six Days, Seven Nights, Ivan Reitman's adventure/romantic comedy starring Harrison Ford and Anne Heche in which she played Heche's secretary. She also co-wrote and co-starred as a paraplegic widow in the 15-minute comedy film Wheels of Fury, which was helmed by Paul Dinello (also starred) and Dan Dinello.

Meanwhile, she returned on stage to appear in Paul Rudnick's Off-Broadway play "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told." She also received a part in the play "The Country Club" in New Haven, which she later reprised on Off-Broadway in 1999.

1999 proved to be Amy’s breakout year when she snagged the main character of Geraldine 'Jerri' Antonia Blank, a 46-year-old ex-con and ex-junkie who returns to high school as a freshman, on Comedy Central's sitcom "Strangers with Candy." It was a spoof of the after school specials of the 1970s and 1980s and was created and written by Amy and former "Exit 57" cast members Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert and Mitch Rouse. Amy played the lead character from its premiere on April 7, 1999, until its third and final season on October 2, 2000. The show was later adapted into a feature film in 2005 with Amy returning as the lead. The film, co-executive produced by David Letterman, was first screened at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.

During that time, Amy played a recurring role on the NBC sitcom "Just Shoot Me" and was cast in a role on USA Network’s Emmy-winning detective series "Monk." She also had a recurring role as a book publisher on the HBO popular sitcom "Sex and the City." Moviegoers could catch her as a wealthy hotel guest in Wayne Wang's romantic comedy film Maid in Manhattan, starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes.

On stage, Amy portrayed several characters in the Off-Broadway comedy "Wonder of the World." She also release the book "The Book of Liz," which she co-wrote with brother David Sedaris, and the novel "Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not," which she co-wrote with Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello. Additionally, she started an amateur craft club called The Crafty Beavers, where she is the club president.

Back on screen, Amy was seen in Cheryl Dunye's romantic comedy movie My Baby's Daddy (2004; starring Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson and Michael Imperioli) and in Nora Ephron's film adaptation of the classic 60's TV sitcom Bewitched (2005; opposite Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell). She provided her voice for Foxy Loxy in the CGI animated feature based on the fable Chicken Little (2005) before releasing her book "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence" in 2006.

Amy has completed her upcoming film project, Shrek the Third, the second sequel to Shrek in which she will lend her voice to Cinderella.