Kathy Griffin - Wikipedia. Kathleen Mary Griffin (born November 4, 1. American stand- up comedian and actress. She has starred in several comedy specials for cable TV and has released several comedy albums. In 2. 00. 7 and 2. Griffin won Primetime Emmy Awards for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D- List.

1. Early life. Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin was born on November 4, 1960, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Mary Margaret "Maggie" Griffin (née Corbally; born June 10, 1920.
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She has also appeared on TV and on film numerous times, mainly in supporting roles. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, she moved to Los Angeles in 1. Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and became a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. In the 1. 99. 0s, Griffin began performing as a stand- up comedian and also appeared as a guest star on several television shows. She achieved wider recognition after her role as a supporting character in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan (1. Her Bravo reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D- List (2. Emmy Awards for Outstanding Reality Program.

Griffin has released six comedy albums, all of which received Grammy Award nominations. Her first album, For Your Consideration (2. Billboard. Top Comedy Albums chart. In 2. 00. 9, she released her autobiography, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin. Griffin has taped numerous standup comedy specials with HBO and Bravo. For the latter network, she has recorded 1.

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Guinness World record for the number of aired TV specials on any network, by any comedian in the history of comedy.[1][2] In 2. Besides her comedy career, she is an LGBT activist involved in causes such as same- sex marriage and the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell." She has also participated in two USO tours. Griffin is known for her conversational style and controversial statements on celebrities, religion and sexuality. After being nominated for six years in a row for the Grammy for Best Comedy Album, she won the award in 2.

Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg). Early life[edit]Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin was born on November 4, 1. Oak Park, Illinois,[3] to Mary Margaret "Maggie" Griffin (née Corbally; born June 1.

John Patrick Griffin (October 2. February 1. 7, 2.

Irish Americans.[4][5] Maggie worked as a cashier in the Oak Park Hospital.[6] Griffin has four older siblings: Kenny, Joyce, Gary, and John.[7] Griffin described herself during her early years as "a kid who needed to talk, all the time."[4] She would often visit her neighbors, the Bowens, to tell them stories about her family; she has referred to those visits as her first live shows and the place where she learned "the power of juicy material."[8] After most of her siblings had moved, Griffin often spent hours alone in the house and developed a binge eating disorder. She explained that even though eating disorders were not very well known at that time, she knew her eating behavior was aberrant and always threw the garbage away in the neighbor's can.[9] In her 2.

Official Book Club Selection, Griffin confessed that she "still suffers [from food issues]" but has learned to "deal with them."[1. In the same book, Griffin discussed her eldest brother, Kenny, who was a drug addict and homeless at various times, and revealed that she was "afraid of him until the moment he died" due to his violent, abusive nature. Griffin states that Kenny would climb into bed with her when he was 3. Kathy refused to speak to him or be in the same room as him for years but didn't tell her parents until she was in her twenties, at which point he openly admitted pedophilia to their parents.[1.

As a young girl Griffin attended St. Bernadine's Elementary School and began to develop a dislike for organized religion because of the punishments she and other "vulnerable" students received from the nuns.[1. After graduation, she attended Oak Park and River Forest High School and sought refuge in musical theatre, playing roles such as Rosemary in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof.[1.

During her senior year she began arguing with her parents, who wanted her to attend college, because she wanted to become a professional actress. Her first appearance on television was as an extra on a Chicago White Sox commercial, and she was then signed with several Chicago talent agencies. At 1. 8, Griffin persuaded her parents to move to Los Angeles to help her become famous.[1. At 1. 9, Griffin attended a show of the California- based improvisational group The Groundlings. She said, "I thought this is where I want to be. This is the greatest thing in the world."[1.

Stand- up comedy, TV, and film[edit]Griffin began performing in the early 1. Los Angeles improv comedy troupe The Groundlings.[1. In an E! True Hollywood Story segment, she stated that she often went to see the Groundlings perform before she joined. She said that, at one show, she went backstage and talked with Groundling member Phil Hartman and asked him what the group was all about.

This led to her taking classes there and eventually being asked into the Groundling's main company. While Kathy was a Groundling, she became best friends with Judy Toll. She went on to perform standup comedy and became part of the alternative comedy scene in Los Angeles.

She appeared at Un- Cabaret[citation needed] and ran her own standup night, Hot Cup of Talk, with Janeane Garofalo. That later became the title of her 1. HBO special.[1. 7]Griffin made an appearance in Quentin Tarantino's 1. Pulp Fiction as a pedestrian coming to the aid of Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) after he is hit by a car driven by Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis).

In the credits she was listed as herself. She broke into film in the supporting role of Connie in the horror film. The Unborn, starring Brooke Adams. Griffin gradually amassed a number of TV and film credits throughout the 1. She appeared in fellow comedian Julie Brown's Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful, a Showtime parody of the 1.

Madonna film Truth or Dare. Griffin then had two appearances as the character Susan Klein, a reporter, on NBC's The Fresh Prince of Bel- Air, her TV sitcom debut. She appeared in fellow comic Bobcat Goldthwait's film Shakes the Clown and as the enthusiastic leader of a fanatical car club in the Ellen episode "Oh, Sweet Rapture", airing in January 1. Griffin also played Jerry's nemesis Sally Weaver in two episodes of Seinfeld.

Griffin also starred in a dual role in a seventh- season episode of The X- Files and in an episode of ABC's divorce- attorney series Civil Wars, Griffin's dramatic- series debut. After starring in an HBO Half Hour Comedy Special, Griffin had her first consistent public exposure in 1.

Brooke Shields' title character on the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan. In 1. 99. 8, Griffin starred in her first one- hour special, HBO's Kathy Griffin: A Hot Cup of Talk. She honed a comedy and television career that poked fun at her relatively modest place in the Hollywood hierarchy in a self- deprecating manner. She frequently appears in such self- consciously tacky projects as the reality show competition Celebrity Mole Hawaii, in which she won the 2.

She identifies her victory as the moment she became a "D- list" celebrity. Griffin performing stand up in Las Vegas in 2. Griffin also has a secondary career in voice- over work and has been featured on a variety of projects such as the animated series.

Dilbert and Spider- Man: The New Animated Series. Watch Hyde Park On Hudson Hindi Full Movie. Griffin's TV production company is called Inappropriate Laughter.[citation needed] On June 1. Griffin hosted the first ever Bravo!

A- List Awards. Included in the show was a scene wherein Griffin mimicked a "wardrobe malfunction" (referring to the Janet Jackson. Super Bowl halftime show controversy in 2.

She also hosted the 2. Bravo A- List Awards, which aired on April 1. Bravo special Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut a Bitch, taped on March 4, 2. Portland, Oregon, aired beforehand.

Shout! Factory released an extended version of the show on DVD in early 2. On September 8, 2. Watch The Black Knight - Returns Online IMDB. Ballantine Books published Griffin's memoir, titled Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin.

The book debuted at No.