Ruby Wax

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Biography

Recent Role:
Herself on QI
Gender:
Female
Born:
4-19-1953
Birthplace:
Evanston, Illinois (USA)
Birth Name:
Ruby Wachs
Ruby Wax is a sharp tongued, sharp witted, brash American comedienne who has been seen regularly on television screens since the late 1980s. She is perhaps more known in the UK, where she has lived for many years, than in her native USA.

She is the daughter of an Austrian Jew who, after escaping Hitler’s anti-semetic regime, made a fortune in the hot dog business. When Wax made her ‘documentary’ Miami Memoirs, she paid her parents a memorable visit where she exposed her mother’s neurotic approach to house keeping and explored her idiosyncratic childhood.





… More Ruby moved to England during the 1970s and joined the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. After graduating, she did a short stint at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield before she became a fully-fledged member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She played numerous minor roles at the RSC and appeared alongside acclaimed actress Juliet Stevenson.

When her stage play ‘Desperately Yours’ was performed off Broadway in the late 1970s, she was asked to write situation comedies in Los Angeles. After two unsuccessful years, she returned to London where she co-wrote the highly successful ITV sit-com ‘Girls On Top.’

Since the 1990s, Ruby has made various chat shows; all with a comical edge. In her show Ruby, guests such as Zsa Zsa Gabor were frequently asked about their cosmetic surgery and the likes of Shelly Winters were encouraged to regale torrid tales of Hollywood. Her ‘no fear’ interview technique was definitely not for the faint hearted, pampered star who wanted a 'cosy chat.’

Ruby has also made numerous excellent documentaries including Ruby’s American Pie, Wax Meets… and Hot Wax. She has also presented Ruby Wax’s Commercial Breakdown’.

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    10 Perfect
    Another American comic without respect in the US. Why, oh why? hide show

    Ruby, in each of her incarntions in the UK (sketch comic, talk show host, eminence gris behind the Absolutely Fabulous series has proven herself one of the golden writer performers of American (and by default) Transatlantic comedy. That she's relegated to a footnote in Britain and remains almost unknown in the States is one of the great injustices of all TV. Just her return to her Chicago high school reunion would have put her in a Hall of Fame -- somebody's Hall of Fame. At least mine.

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