Stephen Colbert Biography

Stephen Colbert Profile

Stephen Colbert was born on May 13, 1964 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, on James Island, the youngest of eleven children in an Irish Catholic family. Many of his ancestors immigrated to North America from Ireland in the 1800s before and during the Great Famine. His father, James William Colbert, Jr., was the vice president for academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina. His mother, Lorna Colbert (née Tuck), was a homemaker.


American actor and comedian, who was perhaps best known as the host of The Colbert Report, an ironic send-up of television news programs. He studied acting at Northwestern and performed with the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago before teaming up with fellow cast members Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello to create the sketch comedy Exit 57 for Comedy Central.

Biodata Stephen Colbert

Birth Name :Stephen Tyrone Colbert
Born: may 13, 1964 in Washington, D.C., United States
Height : 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
His father name : James William Colbert, Jr
His mother name: Lorna Colbert
Brother and Sister:Jimmy, Eddie, Mary, Billy, Margo, Tommy, Jay, Lulu, Paul, and Peter

Early Career

While at Northwestern, Colbert studied with the intent of becoming a dramatic actor; mostly he performed in experimental plays and was uninterested in comedy. He began performing improvisation while in college, both in the campus improv team No Fun Mud Piranhas and at the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago as a part of Del Close's ImprovOlympic at a time when the project was focused on competitive, long form improvisation, rather than improvisational comedy.

Shortly thereafter, he was hired to perform with Second City's touring company, initially as an understudy for Steve Carell. It was there he met Amy Sedaris and Paul Dinello, with whom he often collaborated later in his career.

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