Ricki Lake (born 1968) is an American television host and actress. After her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in John Waters's 1988 film Hairspray, she became the youngest person at the time to host a syndicated daytime talk show when Ricki Lake debuted in September 1993, with invited guests and questions and comments from a studio audience. The show was broadcast internationally and ended its first-run episodes in May 2004. She returned with The Ricki Lake Show in 2012, which was cancelled after one season but earned her the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2013. She also hosted the 2006 CBS series Gameshow Marathon, made documentaries including The Business of Being Born (2008) about home birth and Weed the People (2018) about cannabis as medicine, and launched the podcast Raised by Ricki in 2022.
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is an American television host and actress
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Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968)
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Lake won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2013.
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is an American television host and actress
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Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American television host and actress.
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her talk show, Ricki Lake, which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004
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She is known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray
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In 2022, Lake launched a podcast, Raised by Ricki, in collaboration with Lemonada Media.
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