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Full Rachel Dratch Biography
Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress and comedian, perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006.
Dratch was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, to Elaine, an energy director, and Paul Dratch, a radiologist. She was raised in Reform Judaism at Temple Isaiah and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988, majoring in drama and psychology. She is also an alumna of Lexington High School in Massachusetts.
Dratch has appeared in several movies, including Martin & Orloff, The Hebrew Hammer, Down with Love, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, and Click, to name a few. 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 has also made television appearances on NBC's Third Watch and in a recurring role on King of Queens. Dratch wrote, directed, and performed in the short film The Vagina Monologues Monologues, which premiered at the New York Comedy Film Festival in 2001. Dratch also partcipated in a workshop for Legally Blonde: The Musical in the role of Paulette, but did not follow the production to its later San Fransisco or Broadway incarnation.
In 2007, Dratch played Larry's caseworker in the comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, starring Adam Sandler as "Chuck", and Kevin James as "Larry", the dad who needs to place his pension in his children's names.
After joining SNL in 1999 as a featured player and then a repertory player in 2001, Dratch played many people, both real and fictional. One of her most famous recurring characters was Debbie Downer, a depressed woman who creeps others out with disturbing non sequiturs. The first sketch featuring Dratch's Downer character caused everyone on the set including Dratch (save for Fred Armisen) to break character. Even though her first movie role was small (Partygoer in the Disney Film: Tower of Terror) She said it was just the right part for a first one. With seven seasons under her belt, Dratch became SNL's longest running female castmember (a record first held by Ana Gasteyer), and the first female castmember to have turned forty while on the show.
Dratch left SNL after the 2005-2006 season to join her co-star Tina Fey's new NBC sitcom 30 Rock, loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer on SNL. Although the pilot episode originally featured Dratch as Jenna, the main star of 30 Rock's show-within-a-show, the show's format was re-worked and Dratch was replaced as Jenna by Jane Krakowski. However, Dratch has remained on the show and she now makes a cameo appearance as a different character in several episodes. See a full list here. |
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