Ricki Lake

Also Credited As:

Ricki Pamela Lake
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Biography

Daytime talk-show diva Ricki Lake first shot to fame as the high-stepping Rubenesque star of the cult hit film "Hairspray" (1988). A member of director John Waters' repertory company of players, Lake appeared in several of the filmmaker's subsequent films, including the Johnny Depp vehicle, "Cry-Baby" (1990). Lake's greatest claim to fame, however, came later with her dramatic weight loss, and as the host of her daytime gabfest, the eponymous …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer, Music

Born

Ricki Pamela Lake on September 21, 1968 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA

LATEST CREDITS

Intimate Portrait: Ricki Lake

Interviewee

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery

Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen

Ricki Lake

Host

Starting Now

Ricki Ross

Babycakes

Grace Johnson

The Business of Being Born

Actor

Matters of Life & Dating

Linda

Primetime: Celebrity Weight Loss - What Really Happens

Actor

Mrs. Winterbourne

Connie Doyle

Behind Closed Doors III With Joan Lunden

Actor

Serial Mom

Misty Sutphin

Divine: The E! True Hollywood Story

Interviewee

Skinner

Skinner's Landlady

Park

Peggy

Charm School With Ricki Lake

Host

The Chase

Tammie Davis

Loving Leah

Gerry

Based on an Untrue Story

Velour

In Bad Taste: The John Waters Story

Interviewee

Cookie

Pia

A Family Again

Carmen

Where the Day Takes You

Brenda

Cry Baby

Pepper

The Life and Times of Charlie Putz

Actor

Intimate Portrait: Eve Ensler

Interviewee