Amy Landecker

Overview

Amy Landecker started her career as a theatre actor in Chicago IL, where she worked with the Steppenwolf and Goodman theaters. A Bob Falls directed production of Rebecca Gilman's brought her to NYC and the Public Theatre. While in NYC, she worked at the Barrow St Theater and Second Stage. She won an ensemble Obie award for her performance in Tracy Letts' "Bug", the same play that brought her to LA. While performing on stage in LA, she was tapped to play "Mrs. Samsky" in the Coen brothers' Oscar-nominated A Serious Man (2009), which was the beginning of an exciting on-camera career in movies and TV shows like Louie (2010), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), Enough Said (2013) and her starring role as "Sarah Pfefferman" in the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning series, Transparent (2014). Amy has also written pilots for FX and Amazon and is a top VO talent in animation and commercials.
- IMDb mini biography by: Amy

Daughter of Chicago radio legend John Records Landecker. Records is Amy's paternal grandmother's family name.
Great-granddaughter of lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who gained renown with his heroic stance in the 1950s McCarthy-Army hearings, and later played a judge in Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
Before ever embarking on an acting career, Amy was busy as a voice-over artist narrating various TV commercials. She also holds the unlikely position of voice-doubling for actress Julia Roberts in many of Roberts' films and trailers. Whenever ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement) is required for a Roberts film, Amy often provides Julia's 'voice' on the soundtrack.
(July 17, 2019) Married her boyfriend of 4 years Bradley Whitford.
Her paternal grandfather was a German Jewish immigrant. The rest of her ancestry is English, German, Scottish, Dutch, and Irish.

I'll always identify as a Chicagoan; if it wasn't so cold, I'd be there forever.
When I was younger, everyone thought I was Courteney Cox.
I will spend anything on the best sheets in the world because I am going to be in them every night. I like them white and crazy soft.
I'm not as smart or talented as anyone around me. But they like me.
I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.

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