Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax ( born April 19, 1953 in Evanston, Illinois, USA; actually Ruby Wax ) is an American- British comedian who made a career in the United Kingdom as a member of the alternative comedy in the 1980s and in the 1990s, especially became famous for her interview shows, The Full Wax and Ruby Wax meets ... at the BBC. The interviewees included Donald Trump, Madonna and Imelda Marcos.
Life
Ruby Wax was born on April 19, 1953 in Evanston, her parents were Austrian Jews who had fled the Nazis in 1939. Her father was a producer, her mother an accountant.
Ruby Wax studied psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Later she studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where she became friends with actor Ian Charleson, the detail in the book For Ian Charleson: A Tribute devoted a chapter (1990 ), after he died in 1990 of AIDS. Her acting career began at the Wax Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, where she met director Alan Rickman, who inspired her to write comedy. He later led many of their stage shows directed and was a close friend. Ruby Wax is married to television producer and director Ed Bye. Wax and Bye have three children: a son, Max (born 1988), and two daughters, Madeleine (b. 1990) and Marina (born 1993).
The actress
In 1978 she was captured by the Royal Shakespeare Company and worked alongside Juliet Stevenson in the play Measure for Measure, by Michael Hordern in Love's Labour's Lost, as Jane in The Way of the World, where it replaced Zoë Wanamaker, and entered into the Three People Sore Throats on piece by Howard Brenton. Wax played in the British TV series The Professionals in 1980 as the American student Lonnie in the episode " A sports man dies " with. In 1981, she appeared in the sequel to the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, called Shock Treatment in appearance. There she played the role of Betty Hapschatt. For a brief appearance as a secretary had Wax also in Barbara 's Baby - Omen III.
The Comedian
Your Comedy popularity was developed by their particular interview technique: She was always open, brash and loud, in accordance with the British stereotype of a U.S. American. Your physical appearance was tailored to this image: red hair and blood-red lipstick. This hallmark she underscored in 1985 when she appeared as a loud-mouthed American actress Shelley DuPont on the British sitcom Girls On Top, which she herself had written. According to a BBC Arena documentary, Wax rose for her role as backstage interviewer at Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman 's Ball in 1987 largely on in their careers.
Many of her early television shows based on that in certain situations, they met people and then just interviewed, but most extraordinary citizens, including one in the Soviet Union shortly before its collapse. 1987 Wax got her own comedy chat show Do not Miss Wax on Channel 4 Also she was hired as a radio presenter by The Superstation, an overnight service for commercial radio in the UK. In 1989, she appeared in the Red Dwarf episode "Time Slides" on the American reporter.
Her work at the BBC began Wax in 1991 with TV documentaries and interview programs. Programs culminated on alternative health and interviews primetime mid-1990 with the series Ruby Wax Meets ... from 1996, in which they interviewed public figures like Imelda Marcos and Pamela Anderson. Wax in 1996 nominated for a BAFTA Award for her interview with Sarah, Duchess of York - an interview which was seen by over 14 million viewers. They also had several guest appearances on the sketch series Absolutely Fabulous, where she worked as a dramaturge for the entire series run time.
From November 2001 to June 2002 Wax presented a TV quiz show on BBC1 called The Waiting Game. Your last interview with the BBC series was broadcast in 2003.
The years after 2002
2002 Wax wrote her memoirs, entitled How Do You Want Me? , Which became a bestseller, according to the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
In March 2003, Wax was one of the celebrity candidates. At the talent show Comic Relief does Fame Academy, a spin -off of the BBC talent show Fame Academy, where all the proceeds went to the charity Comic Relief Although not a singer, managed Wax to the finals and was runner-up just after Will Mellor.
Wax had a supporting role in the film published in 2005 A house in Ireland. In 2005, she appeared as a celebrity contestant on Ant & Dec 's Gameshow Marathon and made it to the show sales of the Century before it was defeated. In summer 2006 she was a celebrity tournament director of the BBC's sports charity event Only Fools On Horses. She presented the 2006 reality television show Cirque de celebrite on Sky One. Wax played with in an episode of Jackass where they took part in the Gumball 3000. During the race to the Latvian border was stopped, they wrestled with the Jackass Personality Chris Pontius in wrestling. 2009 Wax returned to Comic Relief, to join in Comic Relief does the Apprentice. Also in the 2010 broadcast Comic Relief edition of Comic Relief Does Masterchef she worked with and prepared a starter for the Prime Minister David Cameron.
2009, the show Ruby Wax Goes Dutch in the Dutch TV channel Net 5 premiere.
Wax ' 2010 first presented stand-up show Losing It deals with her experience of depression. The show was played in 2011 in London's The Duchess Theatre. Wax founded in the same year a Web page in response to the numerous audience reactions. In addition, Wax coaches in terms of communication in both the public and private sectors.
Since 2011 Wax visited the Kellogg College at the University of Oxford to complete her Masters in Cognitive Psychotherapy, having previously obtained a Graduate Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling at London's Regents College.
Controversies
The commissioned by the BBC in 2004 in order cartoon series Popetown satirized the Catholic Church and the Vatican. Ruby Wax mimicked the voice of the Pope, who was portrayed as infantile. After fierce protests, the BBC decided not to appeal. In Germany the first episode was released on 3 May 2006 on MTV. A total of ten episodes were shown.
Defamation case
In February 2004, the Irish television personality Patricia Danaher reached an out of court settlement with Wax, who had initially claimed that Danaher had made in an interview for Ulster TV racist remarks about her Jewish origins. The legal department of Ruby Wax apologized and announced that the case could be settled by a severance package.
Opposition to the handicapped ramp
In November 2005, Wax was by Richard Kay, a columnist at the Daily Mail criticized for being engaging an oppositional attitude towards the proposal of a handicapped ramp near the non-profit art gallery Couper Collection. The British Sunday newspaper The Observer also reported the controversy, as well as the music volume I, Ludicrous in the song "The Ruby Wax Song", which appeared on their album Dirty Washing in 2008.
Interview shows and documentaries
- Do not Miss Wax, Channel 4, 1987-1988
- Miami Memoirs, Channel 4, 1988
- East Meets Wax, Channel 4, 1988
- Class of '69, Channel 4, 1989
- Wax on Wheels, Channel 4, 1988-1989
- Ruby Takes a Trip, BBC, 1991
- The Full Wax, BBC, 1991-1993
- Ruby Wax Meets ..., BBC, 1994-1998
- Ruby's American Pie, BBC, 1999
- Ruby Gets Streetwise, BBC, 2000
- Ruby, BBC, 1997-2002
- Ruby Wax With ..., BBC, 2003
Publication
- How Do You Want Me? Ebury Press, London, 2002, ISBN 0-091-88662-7.