Ricki Lake

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American television host and actress (born 1968)

United States ActorsBorn 1968 · age 58

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Lake in 1988

Lake at the 2007 premiere of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Lake in April 2007 at the premiere of The Business of Being Born

Filmography 40

Hairspray2007 · ★ 6.7

Cry-Baby1990 · ★ 6.5

Working Girl1988 · ★ 6.6

Buffy the Vampire Slayer1992 · ★ 5.6

Serial Mom1994 · ★ 6.7

Hairspray1988 · ★ 6.8

A Dirty Shame2004 · ★ 5.3

Cecil B. Demented2000 · ★ 6.4

Mrs. Winterbourne1996 · ★ 7.2

Gemini2017 · ★ 5.4

Hairspray Live!2016 · ★ 7.3

Last Exit to Brooklyn1989 · ★ 6.5

Cabin Boy1994 · ★ 5.2

I Am Divine2014 · ★ 7.3

Loving Leah2009 · ★ 6.9

Where the Day Takes You1992 · ★ 6.1

Skinner1993

Embrace2016

Babycakes1989

Park2006

Cookie1989

Under the Christmas Tree2021

The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie2005

The Business of Being Born2008

Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery1998

The In Crowd1988

Jackie's Back!1999

Inside Monkey Zetterland1992

Weed the People2018

Based on an Untrue Story1993

Moon Manor2022

It Came from... Baltimore!!2005

The Chase1991

Matters of Life & Dating2007

A Family Again1988

More Business of Being Born2011

Big Rock Burning2025

Serial Mom: Surreal Moments

Hairspray: The Search for Tracy Turnblad2007

The Roots of 'Hairspray'2007

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Television 24

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009

Late Show with David Letterman1993

King of the Hill1997

The View1997

Dancing with the Stars2005

The King of Queens1998

LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988

Hollywood Squares1998

The Ellen DeGeneres Show2003

Sherri2022

Tamron Hall2019

Drop Dead Diva2009

The Masked Singer2019

Celebrity Juice2008

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend2015

25 Words or Less2018

Celebrity Family Feud2015

Whose Line Is It Anyway?2013

Intimate Portrait1993

China Beach1988

Kate & Allie1984

The Reichen Show2005

The Critic1994

Pictionary2022

Awards 2

2013Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host

1996Aftonbladet TV Prize

Connected to Ricki 6

Judith BarsiAlso in A Family Again (1988)

John WatersAlso in Hairspray (2007)

Martha PlimptonAlso in Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)

Rachael HarrisAlso in Matters of Life & Dating (2007)

Andy RichterAlso in Cabin Boy (1994)

Suzanne SomersAlso in Serial Mom (1994)

About this person

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.

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