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Lea DeLaria

1958 - Today

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Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer. She portrayed Carrie "Big Boo" Black on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and Psychic Madame Delphina on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live from 1999 to 2011. She also starred in the Broadway productions POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive in 2022 and the 2000 revival of The Rocky Horror Show. She was the first openly gay comic to appear on American television in a 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lea DeLaria is the 8,760th most popular actor (down from 7,626th in 2019), the 13,422nd most popular biography from United States (down from 11,244th in 2019) and the 4,113th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lea DeLaria ranks 8,760 out of 13,578Before her are Fred Savage, Joan Blackman, Jonathan Goldstein, Surekha Sikri, Sarah Polley, and John Pyper-Ferguson. After her are Kang Ji-hwan, Gina Philips, Daniel Kaluuya, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Antony Sher, and Jasmine Trinca.

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Among people born in 1958, Lea DeLaria ranks 631Before her are Johanna Sinisalo, Dmitry Petrov, Ramona Neubert, Abu Hamza al-Masri, Ellen Sandweiss, and Virgil Donati. After her are Margot Käßmann, Karim Maroc, Brice Hortefeux, José María Rivas, Linnea Quigley, and Rainer Hasler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lea DeLaria ranks 13,426 out of 20,380Before her are John Hickenlooper (1952), Maribel Vinson (1911), Jan Davis (1953), Mark Dayton (1947), Ivan Ilić (1978), and Bernard Williams (1978). After her are Eastman Johnson (1824), Gina Philips (1970), Matt Anderson (1987), Charles R. Drew (1904), James Weldon Johnson (1871), and Sherri Howard (1962).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Lea DeLaria ranks 4,115Before her are Emily Osment (1992), Ellen Sandweiss (1958), Payman Maadi (1970), Fred Savage (1976), Joan Blackman (1938), and Jonathan Goldstein (1964). After her are Gina Philips (1970), Helen Mack (1913), Matt Salinger (1960), King Baggot (1879), Anthony Ruivivar (1970), and Nicole Ari Parker (1970).