Biography
Iliza Shlesinger is an American stand-up comedian, actress and television host. Born in New York City on 22 February 1983 and raised in Dallas, Texas, she studied at Emerson College after earlier time at the University of Kansas. She performed with ComedySportz Dallas and moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up.
Shlesinger won NBC's Last Comic Standing in 2008, becoming the first woman and youngest winner of the competition. She has released multiple Netflix stand-up specials, including War Paint (2013), Confirmed Kills (2016), Elder Millennial (2018) and Hot Forever (2022). She hosted the syndicated dating show Excused (2011–2013) and the TBS game show Separation Anxiety.
Her acting credits include roles in Instant Family (2018), Spenser Confidential (2020) and the Netflix romantic comedy Good on Paper (2021), which she also wrote. She played Anita Weiss in Pieces of a Woman (2020).
