![]() ![]() It was there she met Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert with whom she often collaborated later in her career. In the late 1980s, she was hired to perform with Second City's touring company. There she also worked as a waitress at Zanies Comedy Club. Sedaris moved to Chicago and was an alumnus of Second City and Annoyance Theatre. Sanderson High School and was a Girl Scout until her last year there. As a teenager, Sedaris' first job was at the local Winn-Dixie supermarket where she would make fake announcements over the loudspeaker, and for a while she was determined to work at the local women's prison in Raleigh. In her brother David's book Me Talk Pretty One Day, he noted that she would often assume characters to play pranks on her family. Īs a kid Sedaris liked playing dress-up and putting on plays for her family. She recalled feeling weird in that new environment, as her family was not southern, and followed Greek traditions. Her sister Tiffany died by suicide in 2013. When she was four, her family moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where she grew up with her five siblings: Lisa, David, Gretchen, Tiffany, and Paul. Her paternal grandmother, did not speak English, and owned a shoe shining store in New York. Sedaris' mother was Protestant, and her father was Greek Orthodox. Her father was born in Cortland, New York, to immigrants from Apidea in Greece, and her mother was Anglo-American, from Binghamton, New York. Her parents were Sharon Elizabeth (née Leonard), a homemaker, and Louis Harry "Lou" Sedaris, an IBM engineer. Sedaris was born in Endicott, New York, the fourth of six children in a Greek Orthodox family. ![]() Sedaris has appeared in various films, including Maid in Manhattan (2002), School of Rock (2003), Elf (2003), Bewitched (2005), Chicken Little (2005), Shrek the Third (2007), Jennifer's Body (2009), Puss in Boots (2011), Chef (2014), Ghost Team (2016), Handsome (2017), and The Lion King (2019). She received further critical acclaim as the creator and star of the TruTV surreal comedy series At Home with Amy Sedaris (2017–2020) which earned her two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. Sedaris appeared as Hurshe Heartshe in the Adult Swim comedy series The Heart, She Holler (2013–2014), as Princess Carolyn in the Netflix animated comedy series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020), and as Mimi Kanasis in the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020). She played Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central comedy series Strangers with Candy (1999–2000) and the prequel film Strangers with Candy (2005), which she also wrote. Most recently, she has appeared in both The Mandalorian (2019–2023) and The Book of Boba Fett (2022) as Peli Motto. Amy Louise Sedaris ( / s ɪ ˈ d ɛər ɪ s/ born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. ![]()
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