Thea R Vidale was born on November 20,1956 and is an American stand-up comedian and actress.
20 Facts About Thea Vidale
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Thea Vidale was born in Washington, DC into a military family with three sisters and moved around frequently.
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Thea Vidale's family moved to Victoria, Texas when she was 12 years old.
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Thea Vidale graduated from Victoria High School in 1975 or 1976.
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Thea Vidale began her career in 1986 performing at amateur stand-up comedy nights in Houston before quickly progressing to comedy clubs in Washington, DC, New York City, and Los Angeles.
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Thea Vidale appeared in the cable comedy special Rodney Dangerfield: Opening Night at Rodney's Place on HBO in 1989.
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Thea Vidale performed on Late Night with David Letterman and toured internationally.
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Thea Vidale was regularly a judge on the BET comedy competition TV series Comic View.
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Thea Vidale has performed on numerous sitcoms, including Ellen, The Wayans Bros.
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Thea Vidale made a guest appearance, playing a hairdresser, in the episode "Queens for a Day" of the television series Ugly Betty.
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Thea Vidale provided the voice of Mammy Two Shoes in re-dubbed versions of 19 Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1989 to 2001.
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Thea Vidale has performed in feature films such as 1995's Dr Jekyll and Ms.
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Thea Vidale performed on the third and seventh episode of the first season of the Gabriel Iglesias stand-up series Stand Up Revolution.
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In 2022 and 2024, Thea Vidale worked with Carnival Cruise Lines as one of their comedians, and still works with Carnival cruises line as of April 3 2025.
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Thea Vidale served as co-host for both the 2005 and 2009 AVN Awards.
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Thea Vidale appeared as the mother to wrestler Shelton Benjamin, who had been going through difficulties in the preceding weeks.
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Thea Vidale has spoken often about her troubled marriage where she suffered physical abuse from her husband.
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Thea Vidale has four children from that marriage and later left the children with her ex-husband when she was touring.
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Thea Vidale has spoken frequently about her faith in God.
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On October 21,2010, Thea Vidale was a guest on The Howard Stern Show, where she announced she had decided to have gastric bypass surgery because she had developed complications resulting from type 2 diabetes.