Ricki Lake Ricki Lake Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress, television presenter and producer. Lake is best known for her lead role as Tracy Turnblad in the 1988 film Hairspray. She is also known for her talk show which was broadcast internationally from September 1993 until May 2004. When Lake's show debuted, she was 24 and credited as being the youngest person to host a syndicated talk show at the time. In autumn 2012, Lake embarked on a second syndicated talk show project "The Ricki Lake Show" (dubbed as "The New Ricki Lake Show"), which aired on
Ricki Ortiz because you're taking my best attributes away." Ortiz' "Street Fighter" character of choice had been Chun-Li since she first played the game at nine years old. In an interview with "ESPN", Ortiz stated that "[Chun-Li is] the one who makes the game fun for me," and that she had great difficulty switching to a different character when Chun-Li was nerfed in 2017. Assigned male at birth, Ricki Ortiz came out as a gay man in 2003, though she noted later that it "didn't feel right." Ortiz experienced a large amount of abuse from anonymous commenters online. In 2009, Ortiz discovered