Ricki Lake weekdays. The series was canceled in 2013 after a single season, but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Lake was born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, to a secular Jewish family. Her parents are Jill (a homemaker) and Barry Lake (a pharmacist), but was largely brought up by her paternal grandmother, Sylvia Lake, until Sylvia's death in 1978. Lake attended Ithaca College for one year. Lake made her film debut as Tracy Turnblad, the lead character in John Waters's 1988 cult-classic "Hairspray". Lake also starred in other Waters films including "Cry-Baby" (with Johnny Depp and
Ricki Seidman operative with a history of smearing conservative judges doesn't exactly mitigate that." She appeared in the 1993 documentary film about the 1992 Clinton campaign for President, "The War Room", and the 2008 film "The Return of the War Room" documenting Barack Obama's presidential campaign. She was played by Grace Gummer in the HBO film "Confirmation", depicting her role as adviser to Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. Ricki Seidman Ricki L. Seidman (born August 24, 1955) is a Democratic former government official, activist, and political adviser who was involved in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Robert