Ilana Glazer Biography

Ilana Glazer (born April 12, 1987) is an American comedian, writer, and actress. She is best known for co-creating, co-starring (and on some occasions co-writing) for the Comedy Central series Broad City with Abbi Jacobson, based on the web series of the same name.

Early life

Glazer is the daughter of Sandi (ne Wexler) and Larry Glazer, who both work in insurance and finance. She grew up in St. James, New York, with her brother, Eliot, and was raised in a Reform Jewish household.

Career

Early work

Glazer began taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 2006 and performed around New York City doing improv and stand-up for the next several years.

Broad City

Development

In 2009, along with co-creator Abbi Jacobson, Glazer began shooting Broad City, a web series starring the two as fictionalized versions of themselves. The series was nominated for an ECNY Award for 'Best Web Series' and was positively received, garnering attention from major media outlets such as Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. The series caught the attention of Amy Poehler, who subsequently met with Glazer and Jacobson to help them shop a pilot script based on the series. Poehler also agreed to star in the web series finale.

In 2011, cable network FX, working with Amy Poehler as the producer, purchased a script commitment for the series from Glazer and Jacobson. However, the network did not approve the script and decided not to proceed with development. Glazer and Jacobson then approached Comedy Central, who agreed to purchase the script from FX and order a pilot.

Reception and renewal

Broad City made its broadcast television premiere in January 2014 and was received with positive reviews and strong ratings, becoming Comedy Central's highest-rated first season since 2012 among the younger demographics, including adults 18-34, with an average of 1.2 million viewers.

The show has received critical acclaim from fans and critics alike. Review aggregation website Metacritic noted season 1 received "generally favorable reviews," giving it a score of 75 out of 100, based on reviews from 14 critics.

In February 2014, Comedy Central renewed the show for a second season. Season 2 received positive reviews, with Metacritic giving it a score of 89 out of 100, based on reviews from 8 critics, indicating "universal acclaim."

In January 2015, the series was then renewed for a third season, which premiered on February 17, 2016. In January 2016, the series was renewed for a fourth and a fifth season.

Film

Glazer starred in the 2013 independent feature How to Follow Strangers. The film won top prize at the Lower East Side Film Festival. She appears in the 2015 film The Night Before.

Personal life

She graduated from New York University in 2009, majoring in psychology. She was once roommates with Rachel Bloom after college in Brooklyn. She revealed to The New Yorker that she smokes marijuana every day, but rarely drinks alcohol. Ilana married her longtime boyfriend, scientist David Rooklin, in an unpublicised ceremony on Feb 26, 2017 at City Hall in New York. Dr. Rooklin is an expert in the computer simulation of drug interactions with proteins.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Nature Boys	Elle	Short film
2013	Little Horribles	Lindsay	Short film
2013	How to Follow Strangers	Ellie
2014	High and Dry	Vet Assistant	Short film
2015	The Night Before	Rebecca Grinch
2017	Rough Night		Post-production
2017	The Emoji Movie	Jailbreak (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2010	Broad City	Ilana Wexler	Web series; 15 episodes
2012	That Untitled Webseries that Morgan Evans Is Doing	Emma	Episode: "Emma"
2013	CollegeHumor		1 episode
2014-present	Broad City	Ilana Wexler	Lead role; also creator 30 episodes
2015	Lucas Bros Moving Co	Sister Sister (voice)	Episode: "Sister Sister Sister"
2015	Inside Amy Schumer	Herself	Episode: "80s Ladies"
2015-16	BoJack Horseman	Penny (voice)	2 episodes
2016	Time Traveling Bong	Sharee	Lead role; miniseries
2016	Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio	Various	Regular

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2014	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Actress in a Comedy Series	Broad City
2015
2016	Writers' Guild of America Awards	Comedy Series	Broad City