Liz Feldman

Liz Feldman (born May 21, 1977) is an American comedian, actress, producer and writer.^[1]

Career

Feldman is a comedian, writer, actress and producer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is the creator and executive producer of the upcoming Netflix dark comedy series Dead To Me, executive produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

Feldman began her career as a stand up comic at the age of 16 and made her TV debut as a performer and writer for All That on Nickelodeon in 1995. She is a graduate of Boston University and an alumnus of The Second City and The Groundlings. She went on to write for Blue Collar TV, Hot in Cleveland, The 79th, 86th and 87th Academy Awards, 2 Broke Girls and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, for which she won four Emmy awards. She created the NBC sitcom One Big Happy starring Elisha Cuthbert, executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres.

Since 2008, Liz has been the host of This Just Out, a YouTube talk show that celebrates lesbian culture. The “gay positive” show is filmed at Liz’s kitchen table and features LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly actors, comedians, writers and musicians. Liz has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights. In 2008, her joke about same-sex marriage (“It’s very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage, or as I like to call it ‘marriage,’ you know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I park my car, I didn’t gay park it.”) went viral, recreated thousands of times across various platforms in the campaign against Prop 8, which sought to outlaw same sex marriage. In 2012, Liz was named one of The Advocate’s “40 Under 40.”

In 2016, Liz signed a multi-year overall deal with CBS Studios to develop new projects.

Personal life

In 2013, Liz married musician Rachael Cantu. They live in Los Angeles, California.

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