Ilana Glazer is an American actress and comedian, who garnered fame as the co-creator of the Comedy Central series ‘Broad City’, in which she also starred. A native of New York, Ilana Glazer was a student of Smithtown High School before enrolling at New York University to study psychology. In 2006, she started attending the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and subsequently acted in various plays in and around New York. She made her screen debut in the TV series ‘Acting Reel Master Database’ in 2010. A year before that, she started filming for ‘Broad City’ with her co-showrunner and co-star Abbi Jacobson. ‘Broad City’ premiered in January 2014 and concluded in March 2019 after airing five seasons. A critical as well as a commercial hit, the show earned her two Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations. Glazer had her big-screen debut in the 2013 film ‘How to Follow Strangers’. Besides ‘Broad City’, she has also served as an executive producer on the companion web series ‘Hack Into Broad City’ and the television miniseries ‘Time Traveling Bong’.
