20 Facts About Rachel Dratch

Rachel Susan Dratch was born on February 22,1966 and is an American actress, comedian, and writer.

Rachel Dratch has since occasionally returned to SNL as a guest portraying Senator Amy Klobuchar.

In 2022, Rachel Dratch made her Broadway stage debut in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play at the 75th Tony Awards.

Rachel Dratch was born on February 22,1966, in Lexington, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elaine Ruth, a transportation director, and Paul Dratch, a radiologist.

Rachel Dratch is religiously nonobservant as an adult, and characterizes the faith she was born into as part of her cultural heritage.

Rachel Dratch's younger brother, Daniel, is a television producer and writer; his credits include the TV series Anger Management and Monk.

Rachel Dratch says she grew up as the "class-clown type" attending William Diamond Middle School and Lexington High School in Lexington.

Rachel Dratch said while performing in high school plays, she gravitated towards acting in comedies more often than in dramas.

Rachel Dratch attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in the fall of 1985 and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988.

Rachel Dratch majored in drama and psychology, and was a member of the improvisational comedy group Said and Done.

Rachel Dratch was a member of the mainstage cast of The Second City comedy troupe for four years.

Rachel Dratch received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Revue for the two revues in which she performed: Paradigm Lost and Promisekeepers, Losers Weepers.

Rachel Dratch made television appearances on NBC's Third Watch and in a recurring role on The King of Queens.

Rachel Dratch was originally cast in the role of Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock as Jenna DeCarlo, and the original pilot episode features her in the role.

Rachel Dratch went on to play a variety of small guest roles in several episodes of the first season, including Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Taylor, cat trainer Greta Johansen, custodian Jadwiga, a blue monster, and Dr Beauvoir.

The sketch comedy program featured Rachel Dratch playing a waitress who does not talk in wraparound segments.

Rachel Dratch appeared in sketches and the show ran for two seasons.

Rachel Dratch's recurring characters included Denise McDenna, a Boston teen; Sheldon, the junior-high-school boy from Wake up, Wakefield; Virginia Clarvin, one of the Lovers ; Abe Scheinwald, a Hollywood producer with a terrible acquisition record; and perhaps most memorably, Debbie Downer, a depressed woman who brought others' moods down while saying grim non sequiturs.

Rachel Dratch continued to reprise the role of Klobuchar during sketches on the 2020 Democratic Party Presidential primary debates, specifically the fifth and sixth debates in November and December 2019.

Six months later, Rachel Dratch learned she was pregnant, and on August 24,2010, Rachel Dratch gave birth to Eli Benjamin, her son with Wahl.