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Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and television host, best known for her starring role as Tracy Turnblad in the original Hairspray and for her talk show.
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Ricki Lake Biography / Wiki
| Name | Ricki Lake |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1968-09-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 54 |
| Deathday |
Ricki Lake Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery | Mary Minor ‘Harry’ Haristeen | 1998-12-13 | A small-town cat-and-dog detective duo investigate a new neighbor who they believe may have committed a murder, but the snag is, locals are attempting… |
| Matters of Life & Dating | Linda Dackman | 2007-10-22 | Linda Dackman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but this does not prevent her from seeing the positive side of life and continuing her quest for … |
| Hairspray | Tracy Turnblad | 1988-02-26 | ‘Pleasantly plump’ teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using… |
| Based on an Untrue Story | Velour | 1993-09-20 | Perfume creator Satin Chow is about to reveal her new designer scent ‘Puppy’ when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia which … |
| Skinner | Kerry Tate | 1993-10-01 | A decent-looking lad called Dennis Skinner rents an apartment in a couple’s house, Kerry and Geoff. At night he roams the streets with a goodie-bag fi… |
| Mrs. Winterbourne | Connie Doyle/”Patricia Winterbourne” | 1996-04-19 | Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. Th… |
| Park | Peggy | 2006-02-09 | Park takes place all in one day in a public park in Los Angeles, as 11 disaffected Angelenos find both love and loss in unexpected ways… |
| Serial Mom | Misty Sutphin | 1994-04-13 | She’s the perfect all-American parent: a great cook and homemaker, a devoted recycler, and a woman who’ll literally kill to keep her family happy…. |
| Babycakes | Grace | 1989-02-14 | Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn’t even know she exists. When she f… |
| I Am Divine | Herself | 2013-03-09 | Harris Glenn Milstead, aka Divine (1945-1988) was the ultimate outsider turned underground hero. Spitting in the face of the status quos of body image… |
| Embrace | Self | 2016-08-04 | Embrace follows body image activist Taryn Brumfitt’s crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel… |
| Under the Christmas Tree | 2021-12-19 | Marketing whiz Alma Beltran and Christmas tree whisperer Charlie Freemont cross paths when Charlie finds the perfect tree for the Maine Governor’s Hol… | |
| The Business of Being Born | Herself | 2008-01-01 | Director Abby Epstein’s controversial documentary takes a hard look at America’s maternity care system, juxtaposing hospital deliveries against the gr… |
| Moon Manor | Ricki Lake | 2022-02-25 | Today is Jimmy’s last day alive. His Alzheimer’s is worsening, so he’s decided to die like he has lived – with intention, humor, and zest. In his last… |
| Cry-Baby | Pepper Walker | 1990-04-05 | A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her grandmother’s wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent…. |
| Where the Day Takes You | Brenda | 1992-09-11 | King is a young man, but he’s already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts a… |
| Gemini | Vanessa | 2017-06-14 | A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across … |
| Loving Leah | Rabbi Gerry | 2009-01-25 | A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time…after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Or… |
| The Chase | Tammie | 1991-02-10 | In Denver, a fleeing bank robber kills a cop and kidnaps an old man to hold as a hostage. He is chased by the police and a news helicopter, which film… |
| Inside Monkey Zetterland | Bella the Stalker | 1992-09-12 | An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay…. |
| Cabin Boy | Figurehead | 1994-01-07 | A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck…. |
| It Came from… Baltimore!! | Self | 2005-05-12 | Short documentary about the making of Cry-Baby (1990)…. |
| Cookie | Pia | 1989-08-02 | Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, … |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Charlotte | 1992-07-24 | Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she’s been chosen by fate to kill va… |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn | Donna | 1989-10-11 | A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union boss… |
| Cecil B. Demented | Libby | 2000-05-17 | An insane independent film director and his renegade group of demented filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their un… |
| The In Crowd | Dancer (uncredited) | 1988-02-01 | A young man of the rock and roll generation is in his senior year of high school. When one day he successfully gets on a popular teen dance television… |
| Hairspray Live! | Pinky’s Girl | 2016-12-07 | A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show…. |
| A Dirty Shame | Herself | 2004-09-12 | Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude t… |
| Jackie’s Back! | Ricki Lake | 1999-06-14 | A mockumentary of Jackie Washington, a fictional pop diva and actress, played by Jenifer Lewis. Jackie tells the story of her rise to stardom and fall… |
| Hairspray | Talent Agent | 2007-07-19 | Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore’s most popular dance show – The Corny Collins Show – and lands a prime spot. Thr… |
| Working Girl | Bridesmaid | 1988-12-20 | Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg ski… |
| The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie | Herself | 2005-10-23 | After making it to the top of the charts, members of the Silver Boulders, a popular tween rock band, find themselves undermined by internal squabbling… |
Ricki Lake Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Business of Being Born | Producer | 2008-01-01 | Director Abby Epstein’s controversial documentary takes a hard look at America’s maternity care system, juxtaposing hospital deliveries against the gr… |
| More Business of Being Born | Executive Producer | 2011-11-08 | Executive Producer Ricki Lake and Filmmaker Abby Epstein follow their landmark documentary,’The Business of Being Born’, with an all-new, four part DV… |
| Weed the People | Executive Producer | 2018-10-16 | The uplifting and heart-wrenching struggles of families who treat their cancer-stricken children with marijuana, some with astonishing results…. |
| Producer | Charm School with Ricki Lake is the third season of the VH1 reality television series Charm School. Fourteen contestants from Rock of Love Bus with Br… | ||
| Producer | The Ricki Lake Show is an American first-run syndicated talk show hosted by Ricki Lake. The series also marked her return to talk television after lea… | ||
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