Amber Ruffin

Amber Ruffin: Biography in Details

Who is Amber Ruffin?

Amber Ruffin is an American comedian, writer, and actress. She is known as the host of her late-night talk show titled The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. She was the first Black woman to write for a late-night network talk show in the United States.

She is also the co-author of a book with her sister Lacey Lamar titled You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism, which made the New York Times Best Seller list.

Amber Ruffin: Bio, Age, Nationality, Education

Amber Ruffin was born on January 9, 1979, in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. As of 2024, she is 45 years old. She holds American nationality and her ethnicity is unknown. Similarly, her birth sign is Capricorn.

There is no detailed info about her father and mother. As for her siblings, she has two sisters named Lacey Lamar, and Angela Khabeb and a brother James Ruffin. Speaking about her educational background, she attended Benson High School and graduated in 1996. As a child, she also learned Signing Exact English to communicate with a deaf neighbour.

Net Worth and Salary

Amber has earned a good amount of money as a professional actress. Most of her earnings are from her acting career, movies, television series, and other business ventures. However, the info about her net worth and salary is not available at the moment.

Career and Professional Life

Talking about her career, she started performing in local theatre productions and improv in Omaha in 2001. While she was performing her improv troupe at an event in Chicago, she encountered comedian and owner of iO Theater Charna Halpern. She got an offer from Halpern to have a full-time job, doing comedy in Chicago. Later, after completing her classes at iO, in 2008, she moved to Amsterdam to work as a writer and performer on the improv comedy troupe Boom Chicago Amsterdam.

She started performing part of The Second City in both Denver and Chicago after she returned to the United States. In 2011, she joined the YouTube comedy group RobotDown alongside Jessica Lowe, Carlo Corbellini, and Davey Vorhes and appeared on an episode of Key & Peele.

In addition, she also joined and performed in the nationally recognized sketch and musical comedy troupe Story Pirates. Similarly, she also became a part of member of Sacred Fools Theater Performing a serialized version of King of Kong: A Musical Parody.

In 2014, she began working as a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Beside writing, she also makes her performance in several recurring segments on the program including: “Amber Says What?”, “Amber’s Minute of Fury”, “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” (with fellow writer Jenny Hagel), and “Point, Counterpoint”.

Similarly, when she was not writing for Late Night, she also wrote for the Comedy Central show Detroiters. She also worked as a regular narrator on the Comedy Central show Drunk History. Amber also got nominations for a Writers Guild of America award in the category “Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series” in 2017. She also appeared as host 70th Writers Guild of America awards ceremony.

Body Measurements: Height and Weight

Amber has maintained a good body shape and has a decent height. She stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall and has an average weight. She has black hair and dark colour eyes. Her other body measurements including waist-bust-hip size, dress size, and shoe size are under review.

Has she ever been into Controversy? Rumours

Amber Ruffin has not been involved in controversy till now. She keeps her personal life private and has kept herself away from scandals and rumours. She ignores the activities that affect her career and image.

Social Media: Instagram and Twitter

Amber is active on Instagram under the username @amberruffin with 367k followers. Her Instagram account is designated with a blue checkmark and has shared more than 873 posts till now.

Similarly, she holds around 220.5k Twitter followers, which she joined in March 2012. Likewise, she has more than 135k followers on Facebook. However, she is inactive on YouTube and TikTok accounts.

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