Ricki Lake
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 25 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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🎬 Movies
Under the Christmas Tree
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2021
Gemini
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2017
Hairspray Live!
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2016
Loving Leah
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2009
Park
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2006
Cecil B. Demented
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2000
Murder She Purred: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
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1998
Mrs. Winterbourne
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1996
Serial Mom
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1994
Cabin Boy
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1994
Skinner
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1993
Based on an Untrue Story
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1993
Inside Monkey Zetterland
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1992
Where the Day Takes You
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1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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1992
The Chase
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1991
Cry-Baby
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1990
Cookie
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1989
Last Exit to Brooklyn
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1989
Babycakes
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1989
Hairspray
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1988
The In Crowd
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1988
Serial Mom: Surreal Moments
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