| Rachel Dratch | |
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 Dratch at the premiere of Baby Mama in New York City, at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival |
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| Born | Rachel Susan Dratch February 22, 1966 Lexington, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress/Comedienne |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress and comedienne, perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006.
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Dratch was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elaine, a transportation director, and Paul Dratch, a radiologist. She is a graduate of William Diamond Middle School and Lexington High School in Massachusetts. Dratch is also an alumna of Dartmouth College (class of 1988), where she majored in drama and psychology and was a member of the improvisational comedy group, Said and Done. She attended the National Theater Institute in the fall of 1986.
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 latter two revues in which she performed: "Paradigm Lost," and "Promisekeepers, Losers Weepers." At 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 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 has also made television appearances on NBC's Third Watch and in a recurring role on 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" and more recently, the season 3 finale of Ugly Betty.
Her career at SNL spanned from 1999-2006. Dratch's recurring characters include the Boston Teens (Sully and Denise); Sheldon, the junior high school boy from "Wake up Wakefield"; The "Lovers" with Will Ferrell as two pretentious professors; and Abe Scheinwald, Hollywood Producer. One of her best-known recurring characters was Debbie Downer, a depressed woman who creeps others out with disturbing non sequiturs. Dratch's first sketch as Downer attracted fan and media attention when her remarks about sterility, the greenhouse effect, and feline AIDS caused the guest star, Lindsay Lohan, and the rest of the cast, including Dratch, to break character.[1] She performed on SNL for seven seasons.
| Debbie Downer | |
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| Saturday Night Live character | |
| First appearance | 2004-05-01 |
| Last appearance | 2006-04-15 |
| Cause/reason | Portrayer left show |
| Portrayed by | Rachel Dratch |
| Episode count | 7 |
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| Gender | Female |
   | Transcipt of the Debbie Downer Debut - SNL Transcripts: Lindsay Lohan: 05/01/04: Debbie Downer |
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