# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ricki-lake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:37:33.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ricki-lake"
name: "Ricki Lake"
slug: "ricki-lake"
description: "Ricki Pamela Lake is an American television host and actress. She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray, for which she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She is also known for her talk show, Ricki Lake, which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004. When the show debuted, Lake was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a syndicated talk show at the time. In late 2012, Lake began hosting a second syndicated talk show, The Ricki Lake Show. The series was canceled in 2013 after a single season, but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for the project."
tagline: "American television host and actress (born 1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ricki_Lake_May_2015_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1968-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  90
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump