Ricki Lake Biography

Ricki Lake is an American actress, Emmy Award winning television host and a producer. She is best known for starring as Tracy Turnblad in the movie ‘Hairspray’ and for compering her day time talk show which was aired internationally for many years. She moved to Los Angeles to enrich her acting career and even underwent remarkable physical transformation—she reduced her weight in order to bag roles. She followed up the success of ‘Hairspray’ by starring in other movies like ‘Cry-Baby’ (alongside Johnny Depp and Susan Tyrrell), ‘Cecil B. Demented’ (along with Melanie Griffith and Stephen Dorff), and ‘Serial Mom’ (with Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston). She also featured in ‘Mrs. Winterbourne’ with Shirley MacLaine and Brendan Fraser, ‘Cabin Boy’, ‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’, ‘Cookie’, and ‘Inside Monkey Zetterland’. She also received tremendous success for her talk show which lasted for eleven seasons. Later, she started another talk show that aired on weekdays. However, the show was cancelled after a single season. Recently, she worked on a documentary titled ‘Sweetening the Pill’ which features the hazards of hormonal birth control on women. In personal life, she was married to Rob Sussman and Christian Evans. From her former marriage to Rob, she has two sons