Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and television personality, best known for her talk show and starring role as Tracy Turnblad in the original Hairspray.
Lake was born to a Jewish family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the daughter of Jill, a housewife, and Barry Lake, a pharmacist. She attended Ithaca College and the Professional Children's School.
Ricki Lake debuted on September 13, 1993. A typical show might p...
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Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and television personality, best known for her talk show and starring role as Tracy Turnblad in the original Hairspray.
Lake was born to a Jewish family in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, the daughter of Jill, a housewife, and Barry Lake, a pharmacist. She attended Ithaca College and the Professional Children's School.
Ricki Lake debuted on September 13, 1993. A typical show might present several lower middle class women, each claiming to be "all that" (the show's catchphrase for someone with high fashion and personal appeal) with others debating the assertion. Other shows would present someone in an obviously bad relationship and have Lake recommend, "Dump that zero and get yourself a hero!" Once Lake became a mother, feel-good mother-and-child shows became common.
In 2000, Lake told Rosie O'Donnell in an interview she had signed on for four additional years. Although Sony Pictures Television had many stations...
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