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Sarah Silverman Profile |
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Birth Date: December 2, 1970
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Birth Place: Bedford, New Hampshire, USA
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Birth Name: Sarah Kate Silverman
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Sarah Kate Silverman was born on December 2, 1970, in
Bedford, New Hampshire. She made her start on stage at age
12, playing the title role in a community theater production
of Annie. A born performer, Silverman began doing stand-up
comedy when she was in high school. Following graduation,
she spent a year at New York University, during which time
she concentrated on handing out fliers to promote her comedy
club gigs. She dropped out after her freshman year to focus
on her stand-up career.
In 1993, after several years of experience on the stand-up
circuit to her credit, Silverman was hired as a writer and
featured player on Saturday Night Live. She was part of the
cast that also included Mike Myers, Chris Farley and Adam
Sandler, but she was let go at the end of the ’93-’94 season
since none of her sketches ever made it to air. To add
insult to injury, she was notified of her dismissal from the
show by fax.
Silverman relocated to Los Angeles in 1995 and moved on to
another sketch comedy show, Mr. Show with Bob and David, on
HBO. She also made guest appearances on sitcoms like The
Larry Sanders Show, where she had the recurring role of TV
writer Wendy Traston, and Seinfeld, where she played
Kramer's girlfriend. She also landed guest roles on dramas
like Star Trek: Voyager and JAG.
In 1998, the budding actress made it onto the big screen
with small parts in comedies such as Bulworth with Warren
Beatty and Halle Berry, Overnight Delivery with Reese
Witherspoon, and There's Something About Mary with Cameron
Diaz. The following year, she appeared in the
made-for-television film Smog, which was written and
directed by Jon Favreau, Late Last Night with Emilio
Estevez, and the romantic comedy The Bachelor, co-starring
Chris O'Donnell and Renee Zellweger.
More bit parts in movies followed in 2000, as Silverman
appeared in Screwed with Norm MacDonald and Dave Chappelle,
and in the crime drama The Way of the Gun, co-starring James
Caan and Benicio Del Toro, in which she was credited as the
Raving Bitch. In 2001, she landed roles in Heartbreakers
with Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt, Say It Isn't
So with Chris Klein and Heather Graham, and Evolution, a
sci-fi comedy co-starring David Duchovny and Julianne Moore.
In 2002, Silverman was cast as TV executive Alison Kaiser in
the sitcom Greg the Bunny, which also co-starred Eugene Levy
and Seth Green. That same year, she guest starred in an
episode of V.I.P., the action/comedy series starring Pamela
Anderson, and lent her voice to the animated series Saddle
Rash and Crank Yankers, a zany puppet show in which she
voiced a prank caller named Hadassah Guberman.
Silverman debuted her stand-up/musical revue Jesus is Magic
in 2003 to generally favorable reviews. That same year, she
guest starred on Frasier, and played the mean, self-obsessed
Patty Di Marco in the big-screen comedy The School of Rock,
starring Jack Black. The following year, she co-starred with
Sam Seder and Andy Dick in the mini-series Pilot Season,
guest starred in an episode of Monk, and lent her voice to
Comedy Central's Drawn Together and Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
In 2005, Silverman appeared in the indie romantic comedy I
Want Someone to Eat Cheese with and the musical Rent, and
found more voice work on the animated series Tom Goes to the
Mayor and American Dad!
Sarah's one-woman show was filmed and released as a feature
film. Entitled Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, it premiered
at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and was shown in
eight theaters in November 2005.
Despite mixed reviews from the critics, the movie opened in
57 theaters early in 2006 and cracked the $1.3 million mark
in ticket sales. Her other credits for 2006 include Sarah
Silverman Comedy Central Pilot, which she also wrote, and
the feature film School for Scoundrels with Jon Heder and
Billy Bob Thornton. |
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Other
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Has three sisters: Susan Silverman, a feminist rabbi (and
co-author, with husband Yosef Abramowitz, of the book of
'Jewish Family & Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values for
Today's Parents and Children'); Laura Silverman, an actress;
and Jody Silverman, a screenwriter.
Once wrote an article for Penthouse Magazine
Became the girlfriend of comedian/TV host Jimmy Kimmel in
2002 following Kimmel's divorce from wife Gina.
Caused a major controversy when she used the word "chink"
during a stand up routine on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien"
(1993)
While a writer on "Saturday Night Live" (1975), played the
Chop Suey in Adam Sandler's performance of "Lunchlady Land".
She does not drink alcoholic beverages. |
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