Trivia

Runs a cupcake and cheeseball business out of her Greenwich Village apartment when she is not acting.

Occasionally works as a waitress at Mary's Fish Camp in the West Village.

Wrote the play, "The Book of Liz", with her older brother, David Sedaris.

She uses the money she gets for appearing on Late Show with David Letterman (1993) to buy a new pair of shoes for her next appearance.

Raised Greek Orthodox.

Amy keeps a free-roaming mini-rex rabbit named Dusty, which she adopted from a rabbit rescue. Dusty's "bunny condo" was designed by her friend, designer Todd Oldham. Amy named her baked-goods business after her first rabbit, Tattletail, a Netherlandish dwarf. ("Tattletail Industries" has since become "Amy's Cupcakes.") She is active in a NYC rabbit rescue and shelter, and is an honorary educator of the House Rabbit Society.

An alumna of the Second City and Annoyance Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Is of half Greek descent.

Failed first grade.

Release of the book "The Book of Liz," by Amy and her brother, David Sedaris. (2002)

Release of her book, "Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not" by Amy with Paul Dinello and Stephen Colbert. (2003)

Release of her book, "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence". (2006)

Idolized her brother David Sedaris when she was a child.

She is best known for her grotesque yet strangely endearing character "Jerri" from Strangers with Candy (1999).

Enjoys playing characters who "like themselves".

Of all her relatives, she was closest to her father.

She was nominated for a 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue for "Truth, Justice or the American Way" at the Second City Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Collects decorative cupcake picks.