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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 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Lea DeLaria is the 8,863rd most popular actor (down from 7,626th in 2024), the 13,460th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,241st in 2019) and the 4,121st most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Lea DeLaria ranks 8,863 out of 13,578. Before her are Joan Blackman, Jonathan Goldstein, Surekha Sikri, Sarah Polley, Özge Özpirinçci, 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 631. Before 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 13,464 out of 20,380. Before 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).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Lea DeLaria ranks 4,123. Before 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).

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