Amy Schumer is officially a bona fide Hollywood star.
The 34-year-old comedian's debut film, "Trainwreck,"opened to impressive box-office numbers this weekend, and she recently earned her first Emmy nomination as an actress for her hit Comedy Central show "Inside Amy Schumer."
But Schumer's rise to fame wasn't easy. Here's how the stand-up comic from New York became a Hollywood star.
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Amy Schumer was born in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1981. Her father was the owner of a successful baby-furniture company, and the family was "really wealthy" in her early years.
Source: NPR
When Schumer was 9, her family went bankrupt and her father was found to have multiple sclerosis. Her father's permanent hospitalization would become a main inspiration for her movie "Trainwreck."
Source: The New York Times
Three years later, her parents divorced and she moved to Long Island with her mother, whose "lack of boundaries" helped inform her provocative sense of humor.
"I have a joke where I say, 'Oh, I'm going to bring [my mom] to a soccer game because I want to show her what boundaries look like,'" Schumer said in an interview with NPR.
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