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 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