American actress and comedian Rachel Susan Dratch was born on February 22, 1966. After she graduated from Dartmouth College, she came to Chicago to pursue improvisational theatre at The Second City and ImprovOlympic.
Dratch first gained widespread recognition during her nine-year run on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (from 1999 to 2006). Among the many characters she played on SNL was Debbie Downer. Since then, she’s made a few more appearances on SNL playing Senator Amy Klobuchar.
Rachel Dratch Net Worth
American actress, writer, comedian, and producer Rachel Dratch has a net worth of $4 million. Dratch is well-known for her roles as Debbie Downer, Denise the Boston teen, and Abe Scheinwald on the NBC sketch comedy series “Saturday Night Live” (1999-2006).
Rachel has more than 100 acting credits to her name, including the films “Click” (2006), “Spring Breakdown” (2009), “Sisters” (2015), and “Wine Country” (2019) and the television shows “The King of Queens” (2002-2004), “30 Rock” (2006-2012), and “Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack” (2016-2017).
She is a writer and executive producer on the show “Spring Breakdown,” and in June of 2021, it was revealed that she and Ana Gasteyer will be behind the camera for the movie “A Clüsterfünke Christmas.”
Rachel’s voice can be heard in a wide variety of TV shows, including “Game Over” (2004), “Assy McGee” (2008), “Fish Hooks” (2010-2013), “The Awesomes” (2013-2014), and “Imaginary Mary” (2017), and she has also appeared in “Sylvia” (2010), “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (2013), “Tail! Spin!” (2014-2015), and “Privacy” (2016) on stage. Dratch wrote about her life and career in her memoir “Girl Walks Into a Bar…” in 2012.
Rachel Dratch Early Life
Rachel Dratch’s birthday is February 22nd and she was born Rachel Susan Dratch in Lexington, Massachusetts. Elaine’s mother was a transport director, while Paul, her dad, worked as a radiologist. Rachel’s parents were Reform Jews, and while Dratch claims she is no longer religious, she got a bat mitzvah and attended Hebrew school as a child.
Daniel, Rachel’s younger brother, is a writer and producer for television shows like “Monk” and “Anger Management.” Dratch performed in school plays during his time at Lexington High School and William Diamond Middle School.
She attended Dartmouth University after high school and became a member of the improv comedy troupe Said and Done while studying drama and psychology. After completing her degree at Dartmouth in 1988, Rachel spent a semester at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Theater Institute.
Rachel Dratch Personal Life
Rachel met John Wahl in a bar in 2009, and after a casual six months together, she found out she was pregnant. Wahl, a consultant in the natural food sector from California, relocated to New York, and on August 24, 2010, a month before Dratch was due, the couple welcomed their son Eli. Rachel, who was 43 when she got pregnant, told “People” magazine, “I thought my life was headed a certain way, and then I got a major surprise.”
Rachel admitted, “It was painful” to accept the possibility that she may never become a mother before she became pregnant. I knew I didn’t want to have kids on my own, but I’d always envisioned myself with them.
What I was doing was letting go. Rachel turned to former “Saturday Night Live” castmates Amy Poehler and Tina Fey for assistance on parenting, while renowned designer Nate Berkus turned half of Dratch’s bedroom (in a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment) into a nursery.
Rachel Dratch The Winners and Nominees
For her performances in “Paradigm Lost” (1997) and “Promise Keepers, Losers Weepers” (1998), Rachel received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue from The Second City. For her work on “Saturday Night Live,” she was nominated for a Gold Derby Award in 2004 for Variety Performer and a Teen Choice Award in 2006 for Choice Comedian.
Rachel Dratch Actual Property
Rachel received $925,000 for the sale of her Manhattan apartment in October 2016. In the same Gramercy Park building, she had already purchased a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment for $1.65 million a year prior.
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