ACTOR

Ricki Lake

1968 - Today

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Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ricki Lake has received more than 5,777,652 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Ricki Lake is the 10,466th most popular actor (down from 9,049th in 2019), the 15,214th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,219th in 2019) and the 4,924th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ricki Lake ranks 10,466 out of 13,578. Before her are Go Youn-jung, Victor Moore, Emily Perkins, Heather Donahue, Rhoda Griffis, and Park Jin-young. After her are Ranveer Singh, Carolyn McCormick, Russell Hornsby, Angelica Lee, Alan van Sprang, and Pia Wurtzbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Ricki Lake ranks 683. Before her are Elena Sedina, Kaori Nagamine, Ana Jara, Bahman Golbarnezhad, Cate Shortland, and Brahim Lahlafi. After her are Franka Dietzsch, Koos Maasdijk, Michelle Visage, Jorge Volpi, Jorge Cadete, and Jari Isometsä.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ricki Lake ranks 15,214 out of 20,380. Before her are Victor Moore (1876), Hazel Abel (1888), Anthony Mason (1966), Carlos Bocanegra (1979), Heather Donahue (1974), and Rhoda Griffis (1965). After her are Carolyn McCormick (1959), Donna de Varona (1947), Russell Hornsby (1974), John Lucas II (1953), Vanessa Estelle Williams (1963), and Kristi Noem (1971).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ricki Lake ranks 4,924. Before her are Peri Gilpin (1961), Malcolm Goodwin (1982), Tia Texada (1979), Victor Moore (1876), Heather Donahue (1974), and Rhoda Griffis (1965). After her are Carolyn McCormick (1959), Russell Hornsby (1974), Vanessa Estelle Williams (1963), Robyn Lively (1972), Pavel Volya (1979), and Alexis Knapp (1989).

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Television and Movie Roles

Hairspray
Tracy Turnblad
'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 her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulative, pro-segregation parents. The rivalry comes to a head as Amber and Tracy vie for the title of Miss Auto Show 1963.
Feb 26o 19886.8 / 10
Cry-Baby
Pepper Walker
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Apr 6o 19906.528 / 10
Serial Mom
Misty Sutphin
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Apr 13o 19946.748 / 10