Lea DeLaria

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Biography

Lea DeLaria is a professional lesbian for more than ten years, earning a paycheck with her humor and performing routines. She helped to generate San Francisco’s Homosexual Comedy Evenings and New York’s FOLKS WHO ARE Funny THIS WAY and it has uproariously MCed open-mike evenings, festival phases, and Homosexual Pride rallies over the nation, like the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Homosexual Rights, to some crowd of almost 1,000,000. You might find out her musical humor about perverts, Dos Lesbos, which toured the united states for 3 years (1987-1989), or Woman Friday, a humor conceived, created, and aimed by, and starring Lea, which received the 1989 Golden Gull for Greatest Humor Group in Provincetown, her hometown. You might have seen her display Lesbo-a-GoGo or captured her chatting, late-night, on Arsenio. Lea’s high-octane delivery, her presents at spontaneous repartee, and her noisy, often vulgar existence make deliberate and productive inroads into rethinking the stereotyping of lesbians along with other ladies in our culture. Among her very best advantages is the fact that Lea DeLaria is definitely comfy on-stage — and on-stage, she actually is herself. Her Muse is definitely lesbian life, homosexual life, all existence. She careens unabashedly around a stage, in to the audience. There is nothing sacred, however all, somehow, is definitely respected. The focuses on of her enthusiastic blitz: a gynecology visit from Hell, Bette Davis becoming born, homosexual/lesbian relationships, lesbian dating and sex in every their absurdity, right woman visitors in Provincetown, and the casual gullible patron at her displays. She’s been recognized to wind up over the laps of feminine audience members; also in a big room, Lea’s shows are seductive. And, would you think her big-voiced display of scat/blues and spirit; she’s released humor albums (including 1994’s Bulldyke within a China Store and 1997’s Container Lunchtime) and some jazz criteria albums aswell.

Quick Facts

Full Name Lea DeLaria

Profession Singer, Comedian, Voice Actor

Nationality American

Parents Jerry DeLaria, Robert DeLaria

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Awards Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, Obie Award for Performance

Music Songs Life On Mars?, Modern Love, Starman, Suffragette City, Boys Keep Swinging, The Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Meatloaf Mystery, The Jean Genie, Freeway of Love, Space Oddity, Golden Years, Rebel Rebel, Young Americans, Let's Dance, I Can Cook Too, Fame, Black Hole Sun, I've Got Your Number, People Are Strange, Welcome to My Party, Down With Love, Longview, Kiko and the Lavender Moon, Hot Patootie, Just a Girl, Straight To The Top, Been Caught Stealing, Do Right, Jumpin' With Symphony, Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, Miss Otis Regrets, Lowdown-Down

Albums Bulldyke in a China Shop, The Live Smoke Sessions, House of David, Play It Cool, Double Standards, Din and Tonic, The Leopard Lounge Presents - The Very Best Of Lea DeLaria

Nominations Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical

Movies Homo Heights, Edge of Seventeen, Ass Backwards, Dear Dumb Diary, The Same Difference, Bear with Us, Cars 3, Fat Rose and Squeaky, Outlaugh: The Best of Queer Comedy, Rescuing Desire, Outlaugh!

TV Shows The Oblongs, Orange Is the New Black, The Beat

#	Fact
1	Famously controversial for her irreverent commentary, DeLaria was the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier with her 1993 appearance on "The Arsenio Hall Show".
2	She attended kindergarten through 8th grade at St Mary's Elementary School in Belleville, and has referenced her Catholic upbringing in her performances.
3	In December 1993 she hosted Comedy Central's Out There, the first all-gay stand-up comedy special.
4	Performed as Jane in the 1998 Off Broadway production of Paul Rudnick's "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told," a gay retelling of the Bible.
5	DeLaria released two CD recordings of her comedy, Bulldyke in a China Shop (1994) and Box Lunch (1997). She has also written a humorous book entitled Lea's Book of Rules for the World.
6	Daughter of Italian Robert (a social worker and jazz pianist) and Jerry (a homemaker) DeLaria.
7	An outspoken actress, director, singer, comedian, and writer, she began singing in jazz clubs as a teenager before extending herself successfully into stand-up comedy in the early 1980s.
8	Made her recording Warner Bros. debut in 2000. Hailed by the Times as "the Best Jazz Album of 2001". Her second album, Double Standards, received rave reviews in the UK and US press.
9	Was seen on Broadway in "On The Town", from which she sang the song "I Can Cook, Too" on the Broadway Leading Ladies show.
10	Seen in the 2000 Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show" as two male characters, Eddie / Dr. Scott.

Actress

Title	Year	Status	Character
Orange Is the New Black	2013-2017	TV Series	Big Boo
Clarence	2014-2016	TV Series	EJ / Nurse / Incidental Lady / ...
Bear with Us	2016		Chief Ranger Stewart (voice)
The Jim Gaffigan Show	2015	TV Series	Lea DeLaria
Awkward.	2014	TV Series	Tattooist
Dear Dumb Diary	2013	TV Movie	Ms. Bruntford
Ass Backwards	2013		Deb
Submissions Only	2012	TV Series	Auditioner #4
Californication	2012	TV Series	Debbie
One Life to Live	2008-2011	TV Series	Madame Delphina Professor Del Fina Professor Delbert Fina
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	2009	TV Series	Frankie
Fat Rose and Squeaky	2006		Fat Rose
Mercury in Retrograde	2004	Short	Betsy Brick
Will & Grace	2003	TV Series	Nurse Carver
The Job	2002	TV Series	Kiki
The Oblongs	2001	TV Series	Helga Phugly
Further Tales of the City	2001	TV Mini-Series	Willie Omiak
The Beat	2000	TV Series	Kathy Speck
Edge of Seventeen	1998		Angie
Homo Heights	1998		Clementine
In Through the Out Door	1998	TV Movie	Various Characters
Plump Fiction	1997		Mr. Purple
The Drew Carey Show	1997	TV Series	Jewel
Rescuing Desire	1996		Sadie
The First Wives Club	1996		Elise's Fan (as Lea De Laria)
Friends	1996	TV Series	Woman
Saved by the Bell: The New Class	1995	TV Series	Miss Hearst
OP Center	1995	TV Movie	Capt. White
The John Larroquette Show	1994-1995	TV Series	Loreli / Lorelei
Matlock	1994	TV Series	Det. Pat Poletti / Det. Pat Jordan

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status
Orange Is the New Black	2013	TV Series performer - 1 episode
So You Think You Can Dance	2010	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The 55th Annual Tony Awards	2001	TV Special performer: "The Time Warp"
Great Performances	1999	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Edge of Seventeen	1998	performer: "Blue Skies"

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
In Through the Out Door	1998	TV Movie

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Ptown Diaries	2009	Documentary	DeLaria
Outlaugh!	2006		Herself - Stand-Up Comic
The Award Show Awards Show	2003	TV Special documentary	Herself
Just for Laughs	2002	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Cabaret Live!	2001	TV Series	Herself
The 55th Annual Tony Awards	2001	TV Special	Herself - Performer
The Rosie O'Donnell Show	1998-1999	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Great Performances	1999	TV Series	Herself - Performer
We're Funny That Way	1998	Documentary	Herself
Out There in Hollywood	1995	TV Movie	Herself
Out There 2	1994	TV Movie	Herself
The Arsenio Hall Show	1993-1994	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Out There	1993	TV Special	Herself
Camp Christmas	1993	TV Movie	Herself
The Word	1993	TV Series	Herself
In the Life	1992	TV Series documentary	Guest Host (1993)
Equal Means Equal	2016	Documentary	Herself
Conan	2014-2016	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Access Hollywood Live	2016	TV Series	Herself
Broadway.com 2016 Tony Awards Special	2016	TV Movie	Herself
22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	2016	TV Special	Herself - Winner: Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series
Ice & Coco	2015	TV Series	Herself
The View	2014-2015	TV Series	Herself / Herself - Guest
Tellement Gay! Homosexualité et pop culture	2015	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself - Comédienne
Today	2015	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Same Difference	2015	Documentary
The Soup	2015	TV Series	Herself - Guest
Cocktails & Classics	2015	TV Series	Herself
Red Nose Day	2015	TV Special	Herself
The Broadway.com Show	2013-2014	TV Series	Herself
HuffPost Live Conversations	2014	TV Series	Herself - Guest
The Noite com Danilo Gentili	2014	TV Series	Herself
A World of Dreams: Voices from the Out100	2013	Documentary	Herself

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Drunken Peasants	2014	TV Series	Herself

Won awards

Year

Award

Ceremony

Nomination

Movie

Award shared with

2016

Best Ensemble Cast

Orlando Film Festival

Best Ensemble Cast in a Feature Film

Bear with Us (2016)

· Mark Jude Sullivan
· Christy Carlson Romano
· Cheyenne Jackson
· Alex McKenna
· Collin Smith
· Kevin Carolan
· Curtiss Cook
· Alice Ripley
· R.J. Lewis

2016

Actor

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

Orange Is the New Black (2013)

· Uzo Aduba
· Mike Birbiglia
· Marsha Stephanie Blake
· Danielle Brooks
· Laverne Cox
· Jackie Cruz
· Catherine Curtin
· Beth Fowler
· Joel Marsh Garland
· Kimiko Glenn
· Annie Golden
· Diane Guerrero
· Michael Harney
· Vicky Jeudy
· Selenis Leyva
· Taryn Manning
· Adrienne C. Moore
· Kate Mulgrew
· Emma Myles
· Matt Peters
· Lori Petty
· Jessica Pimentel
· Dascha Polanco
· Laura Prepon
· Elizabeth Rodriguez
· Uzo Aduba
· Jason Biggs
· Danielle Brooks
· Laverne Cox
· Jackie Cruz
· Catherine Curtin
· Beth Fowler
· Yvette Freeman
· Germar Terrell Gardner
· Kimiko Glenn
· Annie Golden
· Diane Guerrero
· Michael Harney
· Vicky Jeudy
· Julie Lake
· Lauren Lapkus
· Selenis Leyva
· Natasha Lyonne
· Taryn Manning
· Joel Marsh Garland
· Matt McGorry
· Adrienne C. Moore
· Kate Mulgrew
· Emma Myles
· Jessica Pimentel
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#	Quote
1	I was basically disowned by my Italian Catholic parents when I came out. They didn't speak to me for five years. Over a course of time however - mostly through my rubbing their faces in it - they came around to a place of peace with who I am.
2	[on whose musical style she was most influenced] John Coltrane. He spent a lifetime trying to sound unique and to have his own style. As a jazz musician I find it very important to find my own style - which is why it's very interesting that whenever reviewers review me, they compare me to a laundry list of other singers. We're talking everyone from Bjork to Ethel Merman..The reality is, I sound like me. I'm just able to sing in a variety of styles. And that's how I try to find my own.
3	My idea as far as comedy goes has always been able to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them is that is what's important.
4	As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
5	It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian because I understand men so completely and women are a total mystery to me. ... Women are the most confusing, annoying people in the world.