Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Her breakout role came as Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central comedy series Strangers with Candy. She has also appeared in various films, including Maid in Manhattan, School of Rock, Elf, Bewitched, Chicken Little, Shrek the Third, Jennifer’s Body, Puss in Boots, Chef, Ghost Team, Handsome, and The Lion King. In 2013, she replaced Kristen Schaal as the sex-crazed Hurs heed in the second season of Adult Swim’s The Heart,. She Hollers. In 2015, she starred in a recurring role in a major political satire series, Alpha House.
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Amy Louise Sedaris (born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Her breakout role came as Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central comedy series Strangers with Candy and the prequel film Strangers With Candy, which she also wrote. Sedaris appeared as Hurshe Heartshe in the Adult Swim comedy series The Heart, She Holler and as Mimi Kanasis in the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She received further critical acclaim as the creator and star of the TruTV surreal comedy series At Home with Amy Sedaris, which earned her two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. She has also appeared in various films, including Maid in Manhattan, School of Rock, Elf, Bewitched, Chicken Little, Shrek the Third, Jennifer’s Body, Puss in Boots, Chef, Ghost Team, Handsome, and The Lion King. Sedaris was born in Endicott, New York, to Sharon Elizabeth and Louis Harry \”Lou\” Sedaris, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her five siblings. Her father is of Greek descent and her mother was an Anglo-American.
As a teenager, Sedaris worked at her local Winn-Dixie supermarket. She would make fake announcements over the loudspeaker, and the head cashier would threaten to fire her. After work, she egged the cashier’s car in protest. In retaliation, she was fired for being five minutes late. In 2011, she appeared in a series of commercials for Downy Unstables, a fabric softener product. In 2013, she replaced Kristen Schaal as the sex-crazed Hurs heed in the second season of Adult Swim’s The Heart,. She Hollers. In the same year, she played Laffer Louise, the wife of Garry Trudeau, in the Prime Video political satire Alpha House, which was written by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau. She also appeared as the mother-of-two in the final season of the comedy series Alpha House. In 2015, she starred in a recurring role in a major political satire series, Alpha House; she was replaced by Garry Trudeau’s wife Laffer Laffer, who was also the creator of the series.
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