Sarah Silverman Age, Boyfriend, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Sarah Kate Silverman
Nickname	'Big S'
Profession(s)	• Stand-up comedian • Actress • Writer
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 7" (170 cm)
Eye Colour	Dark Brown
Hair Colour	Black
Career
Debut	Film - Who's the Caboose? (1997) as Susan Underman Television - Saturday Night Live (1993-1994) on NBC
Awards, Honours, Achievements	2024 • Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Comedy/Variety Special for Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love (won) • Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television for Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love (nominated) 2018 • Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for Sarah Silverman: A Speck of Dust (nominated) 2015 • Seymour Cassel Award for Outstanding Performance (screen acting) for I Smile Back (won) 2014 • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles (won) 2008 • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for "I'm F**king Matt Damon", Jimmy Kimmel Live! (won)
Personal Life
Date of Birth	1 December 1970 (Tuesday)
Age (as of 2024)	53 Years
Birthplace	Bedford, New Hampshire, USA
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Signature
Nationality	American
Hometown	Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
School	The Derryfield School, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
College/University	New York University, New York City, USA
Educational Qualification	Dropped out in the first year of graduation
Religion/Religious Views	Agnostic Note: While talking about religion, she once said, "I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish."
Ethnicity	Jewish
Food Habit	Vegetarian Note: She started following a vegetarian diet at the age of 10.
Address (Fan mail)	Sarah Silverman Thruline Entertainment, Inc. 9250 Wilshire Blvd, Ground Floor Beverly Hills, CA 90212-3343 USA
Hobbies	Travelling, Listening to Music, Reading
Controversies	• Sarah Silverman-Led AI Copyright Suit In February 2024, a federal judged partially dismissed a copyright infringement case against OpenAI. A group of authors, including Sarah Silverman, had filed a suit, alleging OpenAI’s ChatGPT program was trained on copyrighted books. [1]Rolling Stone • Israel-Gaza Backlash In October 2023, she was accused of being pro-genocide after she posted on Instagram about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She later deleted her post and apologised for her remarks on the conflict. [2]Newsweek • “Jesus Is Magic” comedy special row In 2019, she received death wishes from two Baptist pastors over her 2005 “Jesus Is Magic” comedy special in which she joked about killing Jesus and said, "I'm glad the Jews killed Jesus. I'd do it again!" [3]The Los Angeles Times • Fired for her blackface photo In 2019, she revealed that she was once fired from a movie after producers found her blackface photo from 2007 in which she wore blackface make-up in an episode of her former Comedy Central show “The Sarah Silverman Program.” In the show, she said, “I look like the beautiful Queen Latifah." [4]CNN • Apologised to Paris Hilton for prison jokes While hosting the MTV Movie Awards in June 2007, she joked at Paris Hilton violating probation on an alcohol-related drink-driving conviction, which made Hilton, who was sitting in the audience, uncomfortable. Silverman later apologised to Hilton. [5]BBC • Criticised for joking at Britney Spears She was heavily criticised after she mocked Britney Spears' "slutty clothes" and called her two sons "adorable mistakes" at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. She later expressed regret over her remarks. [6]CBS News • Joe Franklin controversy In 2005, while performing in the documentary The Aristocrats, she said New York radio and TV personality Joe Franklin raped her, which didn't go well with Franklin, and he even considered suing her. [7]Slate • Racial slur In 2001, she received criticisms for using the racial slur "Chink" during a TV interview with Conan O’Brien which Guy Aoki of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA). [8]The Guardian
Social Media	• Instagram • Facebook • YouTube • Twitter
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Affairs/Boyfriends	Current Relationship • Rory Albanese (American comedian and television producer) Dating Period: 2020-present Previous Relationships • Michael Sheen (Welsh Actor) Dating Period: 2014-2017 • Kyle Dunnigan (Comedian) Dating Period: 2011-2013 • Alec Sulkin (American Screenwriter) • Rob Huebel (American Actor) Dating Period: 2008 • Jimmy Kimmel (American Talk Show Host) Dating Period: September 2002 - March 2009 • Tom Gianas (American Film/TV Producer) Dating Period: 2001 • David Cross (Comedian) Dating Period: 1997 • Sam Seder (Comedian) Dating Period: 1996-1997 • Garry Shandling (Comedian) Dating Period: 1996 • Colin Quinn (Comedian) Dating Period: 1990 • Louis C.K. (Mexican Actor) Dating Period: 1990 • Dave Attell (Comedian) Dating Period: 1989 • Kevin Brennan (Comedian) Dating Period: 1988
Family
Parents	Father- Donald Silverman (social worker and owner of a clothing store, Crazy Sophie's Outlet) (died in May 2023 from kidney-related health issues) Mother- Beth Ann O'Hara ( George McGovern's personal campaign photographer and founder of the theater company New Thalian Players) (died in 2015 at the age of 73) Stepfather- John O’Hara (died in December 2007) Stepmother- Janice (died in May 2023 of pancreatic cancer)
Siblings	Brother- 1 • Jeffrey Michael Silverman (died when he was three months old) Sisters- 3 • Laura Silverman (actress) • Susan Silverman (reform rabbi) • Jodyne L. Speyer (Screenwriter)
Favourites
Comedian(s)	Garry Shandling, Steve Martin, Woody Allen, Albert Brooks, Ruth Gordon
Actress	Sarah Jessica Parker
Film	The One and Only (1978)
Politician	Barack Obama
Muppet Character	Kermit the Frog
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	$8 million (as of 2024)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sarah Silverman

• Sarah Silverman is considered the world’s hottest and most controversial comedian. She is known for taboo-busting stand-up routines, addressing subjects like race, sexuality, and politics, as well as Jewish identity and the Holocaust.

• Although she was born into a Jewish family, she considers herself non-religious.

• Her ancestors belong to Poland and Russia. In an interview, Sarah revealed her maternal grandmother was a holocaust survivor.

• While growing up as the youngest of four daughters in New Hampshire, Sarah attended the Derryfield School.
  

  Sarah Silverman (standing) with her sisters and mother

• In an interview, she talked about growing up in the mostly Catholic town of Manchester, New Hampshire, and said,
  

  We grew up in a place with very few Jews. I didn’t look like the other kids. I had hairy legs, hairy arms, hair everywhere. I looked like a little monkey.”

  

  A childhood photo of Sarah Silverman

• When Silverman was six years old, her parents, Donald and Beth, divorced.

• During childhood, Sarah struggled with bedwetting, depression, and anxiety.

• Due to her chronic depression, she had become addicted to Xanax (Alprazolam).

• In an interview, Sarah talked about her depression and said,
  

  “I don’t want to have children as they might inherit my depression.”

• She first performed as a stand-up comedian at the age of 17 at the club “Stiches” in Boston.
  

  18-year-old Sarah Silverman

• Although she attended college at New York University, she left in 1993 to pursue stand-up, telling sex jokes at open mic nights around Greenwich Village.

• At the age of twenty-two, she was brought on as a writer for Saturday Night Live; however, none of her sketches aired, and she was fired via fax after one season. She later credited her SNL stint for her being so tough in her career.
  

  Sarah Silverman delivering a monologue on Saturday Night Live

• In 1996, she appeared on The Larry Sanders Show episode “The New Writer” in which she played Sanders’ new staff writer.
  

  Sarah Silverman in a still from The Larry Sanders Show episode The New Writer (1996)

• In the same year, she made a guest appearance in “Future’s End,” a two-part episode from the third season of Star Trek: Voyager.
  

  Sarah Silverman in a still from Future’s End, a two-part episode from the third season of Star Trek Voyager

• Silverman later appeared in many television programmes like Mr. Show, Seinfeld, and Crank Yankers.

• While working with Michael Richards during her guest appearance on Seinfeld, she made a line mistake following which Richards left the shoot midway. She later called him out for his inappropriate behaviour, and Richards accepted his fault.

• She also made small film roles in There’s Something About Mary, School of Rock, Bulworth, and other movies. In these films, she played both serious and comedic parts.

• After successful stage performances in New York City and Los Angeles, she released a concert film, Jesus is Magic, for HBO in 2005.

• From 2007 to 2010, she produced an offbeat single-camera sitcom, The Sarah Silverman Program, in which she portrayed a more arrogant and oblivious version of herself.

• The Sarah Silverman Program ran for three seasons, and the show earned the nomination for a GLAAD Media Award for its portrayal of gay and lesbian characters. She also earned an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress for this sitcom.

• In The Sarah Silverman Program, her sister’s role was played by her biological sister Laura.
  

  Laura Silverman (right) played the role of Sarah Silverman’s sister in The Sarah Silverman Program

• In a story published in the November 2009 issue of Marie Claire, Sarah Silverman talked about her experience of visiting a turkey farm, which turned her into a vegetarian. She said,
  

  When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, ‘Him!’ Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn’t know where meat came from—and I’ve been a vegetarian ever since.”

• In her humorous memoir The Bedwetter: Stories of Redemption, Courage, and Pee, published in 2010, Sarah Silverman explained how she developed her rebellious comedic perspective.
  

  Sarah Silverman’s memoir The Bedwetter

• She later appeared in the films Take This Waltz, Wreck-It Ralph, and I Smile Back, and many documentaries about comedy, Holocaust humor, and mental health.

• She was Jerry’s first guest on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee season 2. They moved around in a 1969 Jaguar E-Type Series 2 and stopped at Millie’s, Silver Lake, restaurant for food and coffee.
  

  Sarah Silverman in a still from Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee season 2

• Her 2013 HBO special We Are Miracles earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special.

• She witnessed the first event of lighting menorahs at the Western Wall in December 2014.
  

  Sarah Silverman supported Women of The Wall at the Hanukkah Menorah lighting in 2014

• In 2015, she endorsed Bernie Sanders (Vermont Senator) for President of the United States.

• At Cedars Sinai Hospital, she spent a week in the intensive care unit in July 2016.

• At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she supported Hillary Clinton.

• Her 2017 TV special A Speck of Dust for Netflix was nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album.

• Her 2017-2018 Hulu talk show I Love You, America explored the cultural and political atmosphere of the Trump era.

• In 2020, she began recording the Sarah Silverman Podcast for YouTube.

• She often smokes weed.
  

  Sarah Silverman smoking weed

• She once said she would never make fat women jokes. She said,
  

  Because I feel that we live in a society where fat men deserve love, and fat women do not deserve love — at least in white America. And so I feel like that’s an ugly thing, and it doesn’t make me laugh.”