Elizabeth Chambers
Quick Facts
Biography
Elizabeth Chambers is an American television personality and entrepreneur. Best known as the founder of the Texas-based Bird Bakery retail chain, she has filmedholiday cooking on The Cooking Channel, Today, and The Food Network. She is also known for a film role in The Game Plan and appeared in television series Shark and Criminal Minds.
Early life
Elizabeth Chambers was born in San Antonio, Texas. She is the oldest of four children, and her maternal grandmother, Maureen Carnathan, was of British descent and raised in India. She studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
Career
Chambers’s first job was as a correspondent at Al Gore’s television network, Current TV. She also was a news correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, E! News Now and Access Hollywood. She acted in the film, The Game Plan and in the television shows Criminal Minds, 2 Broke Girls, andShark. In 2020, she was named to University of Texas - Austin "Outstanding Alumni" list.
Chambers is the proprietor of Bird’s Bakery, which opened in San Antonio in 2012 and in Dallas, Texas in 2016. Founded in 2012, its baked goods are based on recipes from her grandmother’s kitchen.
Two employees of Bird's Bakery were charged for stealing $120k from the business over a period of several year to buy luxury goods
Chambers was a guest judge on the Food Network’s “Best Baker in America” in June 2019. and on Chopped Sweets for episodes 105 ("Tiny Treats"), 106 ("Tough Cookies") and 107 ("Million Dollar Desserts") in February and March 2020.
In October 2020, Chambers launched Vision Visors, which makesface masks for children.
Advocacy
She has raised money for the San Antonio Food Bank. Chambers’ Bird Bakery also partnered with cancer non-profit, Salood, for whom she helped design a cookie to benefit pediatric cancer patients. Food that is not sold at Bird Bakery is boxed and picked up by local non-profits, including churches, fire and police departments, Fisher House Foundation, the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation.
Personal life
Chambers is married to actor Armie Hammer, and lives in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, California, with her two children. Chambers and Hammer separated in July 2020.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2007 | The Game Plan | Kathryn |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2005-2006 | Criminal Minds | Supporting role, 2 episodes | |
2007 | The Shark | Episodes: Wayne's World 2: Revenge of the Shark | |
2015 | Food Network’s The Kitchen | 1 episode (First Taste of Fall) | |
2015-2017 | Sugar Showdown | 6 episodes | |
2016 | Food Network’s Cupcake Wars | 7 episodes | |
2019 | Food Network’s Best Baker in America | 1 episode | |
2020 | Chopped Sweets | Episodes: 105 (Tiny Treats), 106 (Tough Cookies), and 107 (Million Dollar Desserts) |