Amanda Knox has pursued a career as a comedian more than 16 years after she was wrongly convicted of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy.
“Finding the ability to laugh at the bad things that happen to you and to see the absurdity of the human condition (is very important),” the 38-year-old writer, who performed at the Ice House in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday, said of his surprising career change, according to the Sun.
“I love how I can feel connected to other people through comedy,” she added. “It’s a way to turn the temperature down a little bit and make fun of ourselves.”
Knox previously spoke about her entertainment aspirations during an interview with husband Christopher Robinson for The Hollywood Reporter in January.
“I’ve been blessed with some really great friendships in the comedy community, especially with female comedians who appreciate my sense of humor,” she told the outlet earlier this year.
“I do stand-up comedy here at home. I’m currently working on a one-woman show that I’m hoping to do this year or next,” Knox continued.
Robinson, 38, said his wife took a “non-traditional path into the world of comedy,” but Knox pointed to her appearance at the Comedy Store’s “Roast of Whitney Cummings” in May 2023.
Last year, she opened for comedy icon and two-time Golden Globe Awards host Nikki Glazer, 41.
“Nikki Glaser came down from Seattle and was playing to a crowd of 3,000 people at McCaw Hall, and as you know, he invited Amanda to open for him,” Robinson said. “So, I don’t know, this was Amanda’s eighth time[doing stand-up]?”
“But it was so much fun! Let me tell you, I’m not scared at all,” Knox added. “So I just quietly went down the comedy path…”
Ms Knox first made headlines in 2007 when her British-born roommate Ms Kercher was brutally murdered in Perugia, Italy.
The author of “Waiting to Be Heard” and her then-boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, have been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Robbery suspect Rudy Guede was also arrested after bloody fingerprints were found on some of Karcher’s property.
Mr. Knox and Mr. Sollecito were both convicted in 2009 and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison. However, in 2011, Italy’s highest court of cassation overturned their convictions and acquitted them.
After Italy’s Supreme Court overturned her acquittal in 2013 and ordered a retrial, a Florence court convicted her a second time in 2014 and sentenced her to 28 years in prison.
Italy’s Supreme Court ultimately cleared Knox and Sollecito of all wrongdoing in 2015.
Meanwhile, Knox and Robinson met in 2015 when he was assigned to review Knox’s book for a local Seattle newspaper.
The couple got engaged in 2018, married in 2020, and welcomed daughter Eureka Muse Knox Robinson in August 2021 and son Echo Knox Robinson in September 2023.
At the August 2025 premiere of her biopic, The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, on Hulu, Knox spoke exclusively to Page Six about how she explained her nearly four years in prison to her young daughter.
“I try to convey it in a way that she can understand,” she said. “A young girl goes on an adventure, very bad things happen to her, but in the end she finds herself and overcomes it, and then she comes home and marries her daddy and has a happy ending.”
