| Occupation Actress Role Film actress Name Amy Landecker | Website amylandecker.com Years active 1998–present Spouse Jackson Lynch (m. ?–2011) | |
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| Born September 30, 1969 (age 46) (1969-09-30) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Parents John Records Landecker, Judith Landecker Upcoming movies Doctor Strange, Hunter's Prayer Grandparents Werner S. Landecker, Majorie Victoria Records Movies and TV shows Transparent, Project Almanac, A Serious Man, Dan in Real Life, Enough Said Similar People Jill Soloway, Jay Duplass, Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Sofia Black D'Elia Profiles | ||
Transparent Actress Amy Landecker on the Importance of Voter Registration
Transparent’s Amy Landecker Joins Doctor Strange Movie
Amy Landecker (born September 30, 1969) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is known for her supporting roles in films Dan in Real Life (2007), A Serious Man (2009), and All Is Bright (2013). In 2014, Landecker began starring as Sarah Pfefferman in the Amazon Studios critically acclaimed comedy-drama Transparent.
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- Transparent Actress Amy Landecker on the Importance of Voter Registration
- Transparents Amy Landecker Joins Doctor Strange Movie
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Early life
Landecker was born September 30, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of John Records Landecker, a Chicago radio personality. One of her maternal great-grandfathers was lawyer Joseph N. Welch.
Career
Landecker earned her Screen Actors Guild card doing a voiceover for a Tampax commercial. In the commercial Landecker echoes the voice of the on-camera actress, saying only the word "ballet", but made $10,000 in residuals from the commercial. Landecker recalls, "I never saw money like that in my life, and it didn't even matter what I looked like! I was hooked on [voiceover] from then on!"
Early in her career, Landecker primarily focused on stage work, and did not move to Los Angeles until she was 38. Since then, she has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including a supporting role as Mrs. Samsky in the Academy Award for Best Picture-nominated film A Serious Man, directed by the Coen brothers. That performance received praise from many film critics, including Roger Ebert, who wrote, "Amy Landecker, too, is perfect as Mrs. Samsky. She makes the character sexy in a strictly logical sense, but any prudent man would know on first sight to stay clear".
In 2011, Landecker was a regular cast member of The Paul Reiser Show on NBC, playing Paul Reiser's wife, Claire. On television, she has guest starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NCIS, Curb Your Enthusiasm (where she met and started to date Larry David), Revenge, and many more series. She has also appeared in a number of Off-Broadway theatrical productions, including Bug. In 2013, Landecker co-starred in films All Is Bright, Clear History and Enough Said. In 2014, she was cast alongside Jeffrey Tambor and Judith Light in the Amazon Studios comedy-drama series, Transparent. She co-starred in the Michael Bay-produced time travel thriller Project Almanac, which was released in January 2015.
Personal life
Landecker and her Transparent co-star Bradley Whitford began dating in early 2015.
