Rachel Dratch

At 58 years old, Rachel Dratch has this physical status:

Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress, comedian, and writer.

She graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988 and then moved to Chicago, Illinois, to study improvisational theatre at The Second City and ImprovOlympic. Her breakthrough came on Saturday Night Live (SNL), where she appeared on the NBC television network from 1999 to 2006.

In addition to her appearances on SNL, she has appeared on television programs including The King of Queens and 30 Rock, as well as films such as Click and Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Girl Walks Into a Bar, an autobiographical book published in 2012, she reveals the following: comedies, Dating Mistakes, and a Midlife Miracle.

In Sesame Street's The Cookie Thief, she also portrayed the museum guard.

Early life

Dratch was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, on February 22, 1966, the niece of Elaine Ruth (née Soloway), a transportation manager), and Paul Dratch, a radiologist. Both of Dratch's parents were Reform Jews. Dratch had a bat mitzvah while attending Hebrew school and had a bat mitzvah. She is unobservant as an adult and instead refers to the faith she was born into as part of her cultural heritage.

Daniel, her younger brother, is a television producer and writer; he also appears in the television series Anger Management. Dratch claims she grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, as the "class clown type." While studying in high school plays, she found her passion for acting in comedies more often than dramas.

Dratch attended the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in 1985 and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988. She trained in drama and psychology and was a member of the improvisational comedy group "Said and Done." Dratch, a Dartmouth classmate of Kirsten Gillibrand, was a student of Kirsten Gillibrand.

Personal life

Dratch talks about meeting John Wahl, a natural food industry consultant, in a bar in 2009. Dratch discovered she was pregnant six months later, and on August 24, 2010, Dratch gave birth to Eli Benjamin, her son with Wahl. Dratch told People that her pregnancy at the age of 44 shocked her because she had "gone through the whole process of letting go of [the desire to have children]." Dratch and Wahl are not a couple, but they are on good terms and live close to each other to be involved with their son as of 2019.

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Career

Dratch was a member of the mainstage cast of The Second City comedy troupe for four years. She received the Joseph Jefferson award for Best Actress in a Revue for the two revues in which she performed: Paradigm Lost and Promisekeepers, Losers Weepers. At The Second City, she performed alongside future SNL head writers Adam McKay and Tina Fey, as well as future 30 Rock performer Scott Adsit. The first incarnation of her SNL "Wicked" sketch was performed in The Second City's Paradigm Lost. In addition to acting, Dratch also played the cello onstage. The theater also hosted the first incarnation of Dratch & Fey (her critically praised two-woman show with Tina Fey), which was later performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, where it was dubbed "the funniest thing to be found on any New York comedy stage" by Time Out New York.

Dratch has appeared in several movies, including Martin & Orloff, The Hebrew Hammer, Down with Love, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Spring Breakdown, and My Life in Ruins. She also has joined fellow SNL cast members on A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T.: Improv, which aired September 7, 2005, on the Bravo channel. Dratch also made television appearances on NBC's Third Watch and in a recurring role on The King of Queens (playing Denise, the on-off girlfriend of Spence, who worked in a bowling alley). Other television appearances include Monk, Frasier, Wizards of Waverly Place, 30 Rock, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Inside Amy Schumer, Ugly Betty, and more recently, in season five of The Middle. She also appeared online with comedian Billy Eichner in a spoof of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys's "Empire State of Mind", titled "Forest Hills State of Mind."

Dratch was originally cast in the role of Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock as "Jenna DeCarlo", and the original pilot episode features her in the role. After feedback from test audiences, the role was ultimately recast with Jane Krakowski. She went on to play a variety of small guest roles in several episodes of the first season, including Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Taylor, a cat trainer, a custodian, a blue monster, and a doctor.

On March 19, 2012, Dratch's memoir, Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle was published. In it, Dratch recounts her experiences after being recast in the 30 Rock pilot, including the birth of her first child.

In 2016 Dratch hosted the program Rachel Dratch's Late Night Snack on truTV. The sketch comedy program featured Dratch playing a waitress who doesn't talk in wraparound segments. Dratch also appeared in sketches and the show ran for two seasons.

Her tenure at SNL spanned 1999 to 2006. Dratch's recurring characters included Denise, a Boston teen; Sheldon, the junior-high-school boy from Wake up, Wakefield; one of the Luvahs (with Will Ferrell, as two pretentious professors); Abe Scheinwald, a Hollywood producer with a terrible acquisition record; and, perhaps most memorably, Debbie Downer, a depressed woman who brought others' moods down while saying grim non sequiturs. In December 2011, she made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live's Christmas show, hosted by former cast member Jimmy Fallon. On April 15, 2017, she made another guest appearance with host Jimmy Fallon. On February 3, 2018 she made a guest appearance as a "Patriot of New England" in a Revolutionary War-themed sketch parodying the fans of the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles in advance of Super Bowl LII. On September 29, 2018, she appeared as Senator Amy Klobuchar in the cold open sketch surrounding the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She has continued to reprise the role of Klobuchar during sketches on the Democratic Party primary debates, specifically the fifth and sixth debates in November and December 2019.

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