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Maria Bamford

Biographical information

Birth name	Maria Elizabeth Sheldon Bamford

Born	September 3, 1970 Port Hueneme, California

First credit	The Tom Show (1998)

Further information

Link(s)	IMDb Wikipedia

Maria Bamford is an American stand-up comedian and voice actor who voiced Pema, the Air Acolyte woman, and other additional characters in The Legend of Korra.

The Legend of Korra credits Edit

Pema Edit

Character information: Pema

Fan girl Edit

102. "A Leaf in the Wind"

Air Acolyte woman Edit

Character information: Air Acolyte woman

110. "Turning the Tides"

Police woman #2 Edit

110. "Turning the Tides"

Additional voices Edit

105. "The Spirit of Competition"
110. "Turning the Tides"

Selected other credits Edit

Biographical information Edit

Personal life Edit

Maria was born in Port Hueneme, California at the Naval Base. Her parents are Joel, a dermatologist and Marilyn, therapist of Duluth, MN. She attended Chester Park Elementary and Marshall High School in Duluth MN and went on to attend Bates College (Lewiston, ME), University of Edinburgh (Scotland) and received a degree in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She started stand-up in Minneapolis at the age of nineteen at Stevie Ray's Comedy Cabaret and ten years later, made her first appearance on the Tonight Show.

Career Edit

Bamford has been in a number of movies and television shows, including voice appearances in cartoons. The best-known aspect of her act are her various impersonations (including her mother and her agent). Her comedy often takes the form of vignettes rather than the comedy stand-up standard setup/punchline format.

Bamford was featured in the documentary series The Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime, and appeared in short skits titled "The Maria Bamford Show" broadcast on the now defunct website Super Deluxe. She also appears on the comedy compilation CD Comedy Death-Ray.

Her last album, produced by Comedy Central Records and called Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, was released in April 2009 and includes a DVD containing "The Maria Bamford Show" episodes.

During the Christmas 2009-2010 shopping seasons, Bamford was featured in a series of Target commercials, portraying an overachieving shopper determined to be first in line for the "Target Two-day Sale".

For Christmas 2009, she released a free stand-up special online as a gift to her fans.

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