Ruby Wax

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Ruby Wax (née Ruby Wachs; 19 April 1953) is an American actress, comedian, mental health advocate, and writer who has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1970s, and has appeared in films including Girls on Top (1985–86) and Ruby Wax (1996–2000).

She was the script editor for the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), and she appeared in two episodes.

Her memoirs, How Do You Want Me?

She was named as a Visiting Professor in Mental Health Nursing at the University of Surrey in 2015.

Early life

Ruby Wachs was born Ruby Wachs and raised in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Edward and Berthe Wachs (née Goldmann). Her parents, Austrian Jews who left Austria in 1938 due to the Nazi threat. Her father was a sausage manufacturer, and her mother trained as an accountant. Her father changed the spelling of the family surname from Wachs to Wax after being settled in Chicago.

Wax earned a degree in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and left after a year without finishing her coursework.

Personal life

Wax is married to television producer and director Ed Bye. Max (born 1988), Madeleine (born 1990), and Marina (born 1993).

Who Do You Think You Are? in an episode of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? Wax revealed in 2017 that her great-grandmother and great-aunt had been admitted to mental asylums in Brno and Vienna as they were "agitated."

When on vacation, Wax fell off a horse, badly injuring her back. Due to her injuries, she had to cancel her performance How To Be Human at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Career

Wax came from the United Kingdom and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. She began her acting career as a straight actress at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, where she began a long-running writing and directing partnership with Alan Rickman, who later directed several of her stage comedy performances.

She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978, as Jaquenetta opposite Michael Hordern in Love's Lost, replacing Zoe Wanamaker as Jane in The Way of the World and appearing in the Howard Brenton three-hander Sore Throats. While at the RSC, Wax met and befriended Ian Charleson and then wrote a chapter for the 1990 book, For Ian Charleson: A Tribute. In Charleson's breakthrough film, Chariots of Fire, Wax appeared as an American track fan.

In 1980 episode of The Professionals, Bloodsports, Wax appeared as Lonnie, an American student. In 1981, she appeared in Shock Treatment, the Rocky Horror Picture Exhibition's sequel. Betty Hapschatt, who married Ralph Hapschatt in the first film, is the subject of the film. In Omen III: The Final Conflict, Wax served briefly as a secretary.

Shelley DuPont, a loud-mouthed American actress, appeared on the British sitcom Girls on Top in 1985.

On Channel 4, Wax was given her own comedy talk show, Don't Miss Wax. She was also recruited by the Superstation, a nationwide broadcasting company in the United Kingdom, as a radio host. Blaize Falconberger of the fictional "Lifestyles of the Disgustingly Rich and Famous" appeared in "Timeslides" in December 1989.

Wax first began working with the BBC in 1991, with the show The Complete Wax (1991–94). Ruby Wax Meets Madonna appeared on the BBC in 1994, followed by the series Ruby Wax Meets (1996–98), in which she interviewed public figures such as Imelda Marcos, O. J. Simpson, and Pamela Anderson. Ruby Wax Meets...was nominated for a 1997 BAFTA Award (hence to Clive Tulloh and Don Boyd) for an interview with Sarah, Duchess of York, which attracted over 14 million viewers. She has also appeared in Totally Fabulous, a series on which she served as script editor through the series's run.

Wax hosted a television quiz show on BBC One, The Waiting Game, from November 2001 to June 2002. In 2003, she appeared on her last BBC interview series. In 2005, Wax appeared in a music video to McFly's Comic Relief song All About You.

Wax became the host of Commercial Breakdown in 2002. Wax's memoir How Do You Want Me? debuted in the Sunday Times best-seller list this year.

Wax was one of the celebrity contestants on Comic Relief does Fame Academy, a spin-off from the BBC's Fame Academy, in March 2003, with all funds donated to Comic Relief. Despite being not a good singer, Wax made it to the final, defeating Will Mellor as the runner-up.

In 2004, the BBC wanted to air Popetown, mocking the Catholic Church. The Pope was portrayed in Wax as a spoiled child. The BBC did not air the programme after demonstrations.

Patricia Danaher, an Irish broadcaster, and Wax's Wax had signed an out-of-court contract with Danaher, who had mistakenly stated Danaher had made "racist" and "anti-Semitic" remarks about her in an interview with Ulster Television in February 2004. Wax's legal team apologized in court, accepted Danaher's claims but said there had been a financial agreement.

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In the 2005 film Tara Road, Wax appeared in a supporting role opposite Olivia Williams and Andie MacDowell. She appeared in Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon in September and October 2005, progressing to Sale of the Century before being knocked out. She appeared in BBC Sport Relief's Only Fools on Horses, a celebrity showjumper, in summer 2006. In 2006, she appeared Cirque de Celebrité on Sky One. Wax appeared in a Jackass episode as part of Gumball 3000. Though the contest was suspended at the Latvian border, Chris Pontius, a Jackass actress, was battling her.

Wax returned to Comic Relief to take part in Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, which took place in March 2009. Wax appeared in Comic Relief Does Masterchef, in which Wax made an appetiser for then Prime Minister David Cameron.

Ruby Wax Goes Dutch premiered on Dutch television network NET 5 on April 1, 2009.

She was elected Chancellor of Southampton and began her duties on May 1st.

Wax teaches corporate communication in both the public and private sectors. Deutsche Bank, the United Kingdom Home Office, and Skype are among the many customers.

Wax earned a master's degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Kellogg College, Oxford, in September 2013. She had previously earned a postgraduate diploma in psychotherapy and counselling from Regent's College in London.

Wax's first mindfulness book, A Mindful Guide To The Frazzled, was published in 2016. With the help of Mark Williams, a Oxford professor and co-creator of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, she began a mindfulness program in 2016.

And Now for the Good News..., her book After the 2020 lockdown period exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, was published. It's still relevant to mindfulness that it discusses the search for new ways for education, family, self-sustainability, company, or volunteering to improve lives around the world. In August 2021, she first published A Mindfulness Guide To Survival.

She teaches at Bangor University and earned an Honorary Degree in 2022.

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