Rachel Dratch

Birth Name:

Rachel Susan Dratch

Birth Place:

Lexington, Massachusetts, United States

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack, Producer, Writer

Received two Joseph Jefferson awards for Best Actress in a Revue, one for "Paradigm Lost" and one for "Promisekeepers, Losers Weepers․"
Attended Dartmouth College, graduating with majors in drama and psychology in 1988
Worked at an ice cream shop called Chadwicks
Quote: "I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish or the prairie․"
Quote: "[on her memoir] "I thought maybe if I just wrote the whole story then all of the mystery would be gone and I could fully move on from people asking me what happened․""
Known for her "Saturday Night Live" character Debbie Downer
Performed on the main stage of the Second City comedy troupe for four years
Attended her first concert put on by The Police
Claimed she saw the ghosts of two 1950s closeted gay men in a hotel room
Stated her favorite meal was a New York pizza
Wrote an autobiography called "Girl Walks Into a Bar․․․: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle․"

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