- Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman is best known for her TV series, "The Tracey Ullman Show" which aired on Fox from 1987 to 1990. She earned her first show business acclaim in "Four in a Million" for which she won a London Critics Award. Despite Ullman's role in "Girls on Top", it was BBC's popular Saturday night show "Three of a Kind" that gave her the first shot at creating characters, making her a household name throughout England. - Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann Theresa "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962 in Bayside, Queens, New York) is an 11-time Emmy Award-winning American talk show host, television personality, comedienne, celebrity blogger, film, television, and stage actress. - Sylvia Millecam
Sylvia Millecam was a Dutch actor and comedian. Millecam was born in The Hague and later moved to Boxmeer. Millecam became famous after appearing in popular television shows like "Ook Dat Nog" (based on "That's Life!" on the BBC) and "Buitenlandse Zaken", a show with sketches and political satire. - Mary Lynn Rajskub
Mary Lynn Rajskub (sometimes credited as Marylynn Rajskub) (born June 22 1971, Trenton, Michigan) is an American actress, artist, and comedienne of Czech descent. - Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is a five-time Golden Globe winning American actress and comedienne. In a career spanning five decades in television, stage and film, she is best known for her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. - Leslie
Leslie, also known as Leslie Jones, is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She has appeared on HBO's Def Comedy Jam, BET's ComicView, and It's Showtime at the Apollo. She has appeared in the television series "Girlfriends" and "Malcolm and Eddie" and the major motion pictures "National Security" and "Gangsta Rap." - Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Elizabeth Scarlett Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-winning American actress and comedian who gained popularity while playing the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld" in the 1990s. She currently stars in the CBS sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine". - Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate is an English comedienne and actress best known for her BBC Two sketch comedy series, "The Catherine Tate Show". Following its success, Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of "Doctor Who" and is now set to reprise the role to become the Doctor's companion throughout series four in 2008. She has won numerous awards for her work on "The Catherine Tate Show" and has been nominated for a BAFTA and Emmy Award. - Teri Garr
Since Garr announced publicly that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she has become a leading advocate in raising awareness for MS and the latest treatments for the disease. She is actively involved with the National MS Society and the MS community, and travels across the United States speaking about her experiences living with MS, empowering others with MS to educate themselves about the disease and to seek treatment early. - Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones was an American actress, she is best remembered for playing the role of Morticia Addams in the classic TV Series "The Addams Family". Carolyn Sue Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, she was named after actress Carole Lombard, and after moving to California, joined the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947, learning her craft and acting under the stage name Carolyn Jones. She secured a contract with Paramount Studios and made her first film in 1952. - Mabel Normand
Mabel Normand (November 10, 1895 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne of the silent film era. - Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax (born Ruby Wachs on April 19, 1953) is an American comedienne who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s. - Andrea Martin
Andrea Martin is a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedienne. Martin was born in Portland, Maine, but her early success was found in Canada. One of her first prominent roles was as the bookish sorority sister Phyllis in the 1974 Canadian slasher film "Black Christmas". Two years later, she joined then-unknowns John Candy, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and Harold Ramis, among others, on the Canadian sketch comedy television series, … - Jane Curtin
Jane Therese Curtin (born on September 6, 1947 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States) is an American actress and comedienne. Curtin is well known for being one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players. Curtin was also in a "Saturday Night Live" inspired movie, "The Coneheads". - Maureen Lipman
Maureen Lipman CBE (born 10 May, 1946 in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England), is an English film, theatre and television actress, columnist, and comedienne. - Jo Brand
Joanne Brand, known as Jo Brand, (born 3 May 1957, Hastings, East Sussex) is a British comedienne. - Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood OBE is a BAFTA award winning English comedian, actor, singer and writer born 19 May 1953 in Prestwich Village, Greater Manchester. She has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with songs of her own composition, which she accompanies on piano. - Anna Russell
Anna Russell, née Anna Claudia Russell-Brown was an English–Canadian singer and comedienne. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano. Among her best works were her concert performances and famous recordings of "The Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis)", a humorous 30-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen", … - Beatrice Arthur
Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel, May 13, 1922; alternately billed as Bea Arthur) is an Emmy and Tony Award winning American comedienne, actress and singer. She is known for her distinctive deep voice, acid wit and prominent stature, standing almost 5 ft 10 in (1.77 m). In a career spanning five decades and encompassing film, television, and theater, … - Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner (born on 17 September 1956 in Miami, Florida) is an American comedienne and writer. - Joyce Grenfell
Joyce Grenfell OBE (10 February 1910 - 27 November 1979), born Joyce Irene Phipps, was an English film and television actress, comedienne and singer-songwriter. - Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Long, born on August 23, 1949 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning American actress and comedienne. - Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl was the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 - March 4, 1996). She was a country comedian who, along with friend Roy Acuff, was an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, and on the television show "Hee Haw" from 1969 to 1991. She was known for wearing a big hat with a price tag that read "$1.98" hanging off the side. - Meera Syal
Meera Syal MBE (born Feroza Syal 27 June 1961 in Essington, near Wolverhampton) is a British Indian comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. Her Punjabi-born parents came to Britain from New Delhi, and she has risen to prominence as one of the most UK's best-known Indian personalities. She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997. - Marietta Alboni
Marietta Alboni was a contralto opera singer and pupil of Antonio Bagioli of Cesena Romagna, and later of Gioacchino Rossini. She was born at Citta' di Castello , in the Umbria, and made her début at the age of 15 at Bologna as Orsini in "Lucrezia Borgia", and her success led to an engagement at La Scala, Milan. In 1846-47 she sang in all the principal cities of Europe; in London, at Covent Garden, in rivalry with Jenny Lind, who was at Her Majesty's Theatre. - Josie Lawrence
Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, 6 June 1959) is a British comedienne and actress. Lawrence has been a member of the Comedy Store Players improvisational troupe since 1987 and came to public attention as a regular guest on the Channel 4 improvisational comedy series "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" on its launch in 1988. She went on have her own short-lived television series "Josie" in 1991, … - Elayne Boosler
Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952 in New York City) is an American comedienne, and hosted the short-lived game show "Balderdash" on PAX (now i). After a brief unsuccessful stint at the University of South Florida, Boosler worked as doorman at a comedy club for three years, and it was there that she met comedian Andy Kaufman, a regular at the club, who convinced her she should do standup comedy. - Mo Gaffney
Mo Gaffney (born Maureen E. Gaffney on November 5, 1958) is an American actress, comedienne, writer and activist. She hosted two of her own television talk shows: "Women Aloud!" (which was shown on the Comedy Central network) and "The Mo Show". She and friend Kathy Najimy wrote and starred in two off-Broadway shows, "The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives" and "The Kathy and Mo Show: The Dark Side", both of which won Obie awards. - Barbara Kent
Barbara Kent (born December 16, 1906 in Gadsby, Alberta, Canada) was a popular actor in silent movies. Along with Anita Page and Dorothy Janis, she is among the last of the surviving players from the silent film period. Born Barbara Klowtmann, She won the Miss Hollywood Pageant in 1925. Kent began her Hollywood career in 1925 in a small role for Universal Studios. A vivacious brunette, less than five feet tall, … - Dorothy Provine
Dorothy Provine (born January 20, 1937 in South Dakota) is a singer, dancer, actor, and comedian. Provine appeared in many professional and amateur stage productions while attending the University of Washington. In Hollywood, she starred in "The Bonnie Parker Story" (1958) and "The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock" (1959) - Lou Costello's last screen appearance. - Millicent Martin
Millicent Mary Lillian Martin (born 8 June, 1934) in Romford, Essex is an English actor, singer and comedian. During the early 1960s, Martin became well-known to television audiences as the resident singer of topical songs on the weekly satire show "That Was The Week That Was". She also appeared in the 1966 film "Alfie". She had her own television series on the BBC between 1964 and 1966 titled Mainly Millicent the first two seasons, … - Rhona Cameron
Rhona Cameron (born September 27, 1965 in Musselburgh, East Lothian) is a Scottish comedian. She rose to fame via the stand-up comedy circuit, and became a regular on British TV in the 1990s. She was also a participant in the first series of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!", during which she "outed" ex-girlfriend Sue Perkins as a lesbian. She was also responsible for one of the highlights of the show, when the tensions in the camp became unbearable for her, … - Annette Frier
Annette Wünsche born as "Annette Frier" (b. 22 January 1974 in Cologne, Germany) is an actress and comedian. After the Abitur she studied classical acting at the school of the German theater "Der Keller" for three years and worked as theater actress in Cologne. In 1997 Frier took part in 54 episodes of the RTL series "Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast". In the same year she had a role in the thriller "Post Mortem" which aired as well on RTL. - Karen Taylor
Karen Taylor is an English comedienne from Barrow-in-Furness. She is a former finalist in the prestigious Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and has fronted her own sketch show on BBC Three, entitled "Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor". Taylor was a finalist in the Open Mic Award in 1999, and came further to prominence at the Edinburgh festival in 2000. Her first major television role was as one of the performers in The Sketch Show on ITV, which ran for two series. - Carrie Hamilton
Carrie Hamilton (December 5, 1963 in New York City - January 20, 2002, in Los Angeles) was an American actress, singer, and playwright. She was the daughter of comedienne/actress Carol Burnett and the late producer Joe Hamilton, and the god-daughter of British actress Julie Andrews. Hamilton worked in a number of productions for stage, film, video, and television. - Justin Beck
Justin Beck is the writer and guitarist for the Long Island, New York Alternative Rock band Glassjaw. Beck is also the co-founder of merchandise company Merchdirect. Beck is Jewish and straight edge. Both of these themes are prominent in the music of his earlier band, "Sons of Abraham". He is engaged to comedienne and writer Melissa Howard. - Maggie Steed
Maggie Steed (born Margaret Baker) is an English actress and comedienne. - Tameka Empson
Tameka Empson (born 1978) is a British actress (stage and screen) and comedienne who is perhaps best known for being one of the three main protagonists in the hidden-camera comedy sketch show 3 Non Blondes. As well as her TV work, she has appeared in a number of films. In 1996, she appeared in the gay film Beautiful Thing as Leah Russell, the next door neighbour of the main characters. In 1998, she appeared as the love rival to the main character in the film Babymother. - Dercy Gonçalves
Dercy Gonçalves is the stage name of Dolores Gonçalves Costa, a Brazilian comedienne. In her 80-year long career, Dercy Gonçalves has worked in the theater, revues, cinema and television, becoming famous by her humorous use of vulgar language. In 1991, at the age of 83, she caused controversy by exposing her breasts while parading with a Samba school in Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval. - Nora Bayes
Nora Bayes (1880 - 19 June 1928) was a popular United States entertainer of the early 20th century. Born Leonora Goldberg to a Jewish family in Joliet, Illinois, Bayes was performing professionally in vaudeville in Chicago by age 18. She toured from San Francisco, California to New York City and became a star both on vaudeville and Broadway. She was an accomplished singer, comedian and actor. In 1908, she married singer/songwriter Jack Norworth.
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