Ricki Lake Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

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 transformationshe 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