Landecker earned her
Screen Actors Guild card doing a voiceover for a
Tampax commercial. In the commercial, Landecker echoes the voice of the on-camera actress, saying only the word "ballet", but made $10,000 in residuals from the commercial. Landecker recalls, "I never saw money like that in my life, and it didn't even matter what I looked like! I was hooked on [voiceover] from then on!" Early in her career, Landecker primarily focused on stage work, including but not limited to
Rajiv Joseph's
All This Intimacy in 2006, and did not move to Los Angeles until she was 38. Since then, she has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including a supporting role as Mrs. Samsky in the
Academy Award for Best Picture-nominated film
A Serious Man, directed by the
Coen brothers. That performance received praise from many film critics, including Roger Ebert, who wrote, "Amy Landecker, too, is perfect as Mrs. Samsky. She makes the character sexy in a strictly logical sense, but any prudent man would know on first sight to stay clear". In 2011, Landecker was a regular cast member of
The Paul Reiser Show on
NBC, playing
Paul Reiser's wife, Claire. On television, she has guest starred on
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,
Law & Order: Criminal Intent,
NCIS,
Curb Your Enthusiasm (where her character meets and starts to date
Larry David),
Revenge, and many more series. She has also appeared in a number of
Off-Broadway theatrical productions, including
Bug. In 2013, Landecker co-starred in the films
All Is Bright,
Clear History, and
Enough Said. In 2014, she was cast alongside
Jeffrey Tambor and
Judith Light in the
Amazon Studios comedy-drama series,
Transparent. She co-starred in the
Michael Bay-produced time travel thriller
Project Almanac, which was released in January 2015. == Personal life ==