Amy Sedaris
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1961-03-29
- Works
- 5
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Film & TV
Acting · Endicott, New York, USA
Amy Louise Sedaris (/sɪˈdɛərɪs/; born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Most recently, she has appeared in The Mandalorian (2019–2023) and The Book of Boba Fett (2022) as Peli Motto. 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. Sedaris appeared as…
Known for
- The Pout-Pout Fish — The Pink Dolphins – Brigitta, Greta and Karina (voice)2026
- Office Romance — Julie Schatz2026
- Kevin — Brandi (voice)2026
- Smurfs — Jaunty (voice)2025
- Is This Thing On? — Kemp2025
- Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Actress and Comedian2025
- Happy To Help You2024
- No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie — Fifi (voice)2024
- Grimsburg — (voice)2024
- Fantasmas — Vanesja's Former Acting Coach2024
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- 715
- Total plays
- 10,670
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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. 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. The show, which she co-wrote with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert was based on Sedaris' impression of 1970s motivational sp
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,374x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
· 1997 · cited 19,798x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,678x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
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Key facts
- Born
- Amy Louise Sedaris , ( 1961-03-29 ) March 29, 1961 (age 65) , Endicott, New York , U.S.
- Occupations
- Actress comedian writer
- Years active
- 1980s–present
- Partner
- Paul Dinello (1987–1995)
- Relatives
- David Sedaris (brother)
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Key dates
- Born
- 29 March 1961
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Louise
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Endicott
- Sibling
- David Sedaris
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Notable work
- Theater Camp
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Amy Louise Sedaris (/sɪˈdɛərɪs/; born March 29, 1961) is an American actress, comedienne, and writer. 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.
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-drama series BoJack Horseman (2014–2020), and as Mimi Kanasis in the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020). 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. She appeared in both The Mandalorian (2019–2023) and The Book of Boba Fett (2022) as Peli Motto.
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