Louis C.K.

He married New York based artist and painter, Alix Bailey in 1995. The couple had two daughters – Mary Louise Szekely and Kitty Szekely. The two ended their relationship with a divorce in 2008, though they share joint custody of their daughters.

Louis C.K. was born as Louis Szekely on September 12, 1967, in Washington D.C. to Mexican-Hungarian Luis Szekely and American-Irish Mary Louise Szekely. The family relocated to Mexico City when he was one.

The family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, when he was seven and when he was around 10, his parents divorced. Thus, he, along with his three sisters, was brought up by his single mother in Newton, Massachusetts.

It was during his early years that he decided to work in movies and television when his mother would return from work and look up to lackluster programs to unwind.

In 1985, he completed his schooling from Newton North High School and took up the job of an auto mechanic, before trying his hand at various odd jobs.

In 1984, he debuted in stand-up comedy at a Boston comedy club’s open-mic night, where he performed for two minutes instead of the allotted five due to lack of material. Disheartened, he kept distance from comedy for two years.

Since comedy was not doing well in the late 1980s, he found hard to sustain his living, until he started performing with Denis Leary and Lenny Clarke, eventually getting paid for his shows.

In 1989, he relocated to Manhattan and was hired as a staff writer for ‘Caroline’s Comedy Hour’, after which he took up writing for ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’, in 1993, and became the first standup comedian to perform on the show.

He performed his comic act on various TV series, such as ‘Evening at the Improv’, ‘Comic Strip Live’, ‘Comic Search’, and ‘MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour’.

He debuted in writing and directing with his independent feature film ‘Tomorrow Night’ in 1998, which premiered on Showtime cable, though he self-released it in 2014.

He has the credit of writing for shows - ‘The Dana Carvey Show’ and ‘The Chris Rock Show’, apart from delivering stand-up comedy acts on ‘Lopez Tonight’, ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, and ‘Late Show with David Letterman’, among others.

His third album ‘Hilarious’ was critically acclaimed and well accepted by the audience, and is considered it to be ‘one of the best stand-up comedy performances in the history of art’.

In 2010, his TV series ‘Louie’ was launched on FX, where he wrote, edited, directed and acted in all 13 episodes of each season. The show is a depiction of life experiences as a single, aging father through his stand-up comedy acts.