Background and career
Iliza Vie Shlesinger ( il-EYE-zə SHLESS-ing-gər; born (1983-02-22)February 22, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian, actress and television host. She has released six comedy specials on Netflix. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing and went on to host the syndicated dating show Excused from 2011 to 2013. She has hosted the TBS game show Separation Anxiety.
In 2017, Shlesinger hosted her own late-night talk show called Truth & Iliza on Freeform. Her sketch comedy show The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show premiered on Netflix in April 2020.
Iliza Vie Shlesinger was born on (1983-02-22)February 22, 1983, in New York City to a Jewish family. She was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her family moved when she was a baby. She attended the private Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, where she studied Spanish and participated in the school's improvisation team.
Shlesinger studied at the University of Kansas for one year, and participated in the Semester at Sea program. She transferred to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where she majored in film. There, she became a member of one of the campus's comedy sketch groups, Jimmy's Traveling All Stars.
Shlesinger performed with the ComedySportz Dallas, and after graduating from Emerson, moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up comedy.
