Rachel Dratch

Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress and comedian. After she graduated from Dartmouth College, she moved to Chicago to study improvisational theatre at The Second City and ImprovOlympic. Dratch's breakthrough role was her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1999 to 2006. During her time on ''SNL'', she portrayed a variety of roles including Debbie Downer. She has since occasionally returned to ''SNL'' as a guest portraying Senator Amy Klobuchar.

Other television credits include ''Portlandia'', ''The King of Queens'', ''Monk'', and ''30 Rock''. She has also played the recurring role of Wanda Jo Oliver on ''Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'', acting in films including ''Click'' (2006), ''I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry'' (2007), ''Sisters'' (2015), and ''Wine Country'' (2019).

In 2022, Dratch made her Broadway stage debut in ''POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive'' for which she earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play nomination. In 2012 she published her autobiographical book ''Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle''. Provided by Wikipedia