Courtney Gilmour

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Courtney Gilmour
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Gilmour performing at The Great Hall in Toronto
Born Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
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  • Stand-up
  • television
  • film
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Website Official website

Courtney Gilmour is a Canadian stand-up comedian, whose performances centre on her experiences as a congenital triple amputee. [1] She is most noted as the joint winner with D.J. Mausner of the annual Homegrown Comics competition for emerging Canadian comedians at the 2017 Just for Laughs festival. [2]

Born in Sarnia, Ontario, and raised in Waterloo, Gilmour was born without forearms and with only one leg. [3] She began pursuing comedy while studying at the University of Windsor. [3]

Following her Homegrown Comics win, she performed in 2018 at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival [4] and the Halifax Comedy Festival. [5] In 2019 she premiered the one-woman stage show Congratulations at the Toronto Fringe Festival. [6]

In 2021 she appeared as herself in an episode of Jon Dore's CBC comedy series Humour Resources . [7] She has also appeared in The Beaverton , The Stand-Up Show with Katherine Ryan , and the web series Space Dragon and Kim.

In 2022 she competed in the second season of Canada's Got Talent , and was announced on April 26, 2022, as advancing to the semi-final round, [8] and winning the judges vote to the finale. She also appeared in two episodes of the second season of Roast Battle Canada . [9]

Her comedy album Let Me Hold Your Baby received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023. [10] In the same year, she was featured in a third-season episode of The New Wave of Standup . [11]

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