Kathy Griffin Biography

Fast Facts

• Performed with Lisa Kudrow, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman in the Los Angeles-based Groundlings improv group
• Made her big-screen debut in the low-budget horror film The Unborn (1991)
• Dated director Quentin Tarantino, who later included a scene of her stand-up act in his 1994 movie Pulp Fiction
• Appeared as a nurse in Eminem's 2000 video for "The Real Slim Shady
• " After undergoing LASIK surgery in 2003 to correct her vision, had severe complications and has since become an outspoken critic of the procedure
• Found a career niche in reality TV, winning $233,000 on ABC's Celebrity Mole Hawaii, hosting NBC's Average Joe and starring in Bravo's Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List
• Has lent her voice to a number of animated projects, including the UPN series Dilbert and Shrek Forever After (2010)