Griffin, Kathy
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Birthname | Kathleen Mary Griffin | ||||
born on | 4 November 1960 | ||||
Place | Oak Park, Illinois, 41n53, 87w47 | ||||
Timezone | CST h6w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American comedian and actress, a controversial figure, who has starred in several comedy specials for cable TV and has released several comedy albums. In 2007 and 2008, Griffin won Primetime Emmy Awards for her reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. She has also appeared on TV and on film numerous times, mainly in supporting roles.
Griffin is sometimes the object of her own humour, particularly with regard to her D-list status. While Griffin paints herself as a Hollywood outsider, she has a group of close celebrity friends such as Rosie O'Donnell, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, Gloria Estefan, Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Coolidge, Rachel True, Larry David, Ricky Gervais, Anderson Cooper, Cher and Lance Bass.
Griffin has been a long-time critic of Sarah Palin, and has made fun of Palin's daughter, Bristol Palin, using the Palin family as material in her comedy routines.
On 30 May 2017, Griffin posted a video of herself holding "a mask styled to look like the severed, bloody head" of U.S. President Donald Trump, which was posted on her Instagram and Twitter accounts. She wrote: "I caption this 'there was blood coming out of his eyes, blood coming out of his...wherever," referencing a past comment Trump had made about Megyn Kelly. Various members of the Trump family responded to the photo, including his wife Melania, who said, "As a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing. When you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today, a photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person who did it."
Griffin later took down the image, and apologized publicly for the photo, but has since twice retracted her apology.
In 2009, she released her autobiography, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin. 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 2014.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Bass, Lance (born 4 May 1979)
- friend relationship with Cher (born 20 May 1946)
- friend relationship with Coolidge, Jennifer (born 1 June 1961)
- friend relationship with Cooper, Anderson (born 3 June 1967)
- friend relationship with Estefan, Gloria (born 1 September 1957)
- friend relationship with Gervais, Ricky (born 25 June 1961)
- friend relationship with Goldberg, Whoopi (born 13 November 1955)
- friend relationship with O'Donnell, Rosie (born 21 March 1962)
- friend relationship with Rivers, Joan (born 8 June 1933)
- friend relationship with True, Rachel (born 15 November 1966)
- lover relationship with Wozniak, Steve (born 11 August 1950). Notes: Dated 2007-2008
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Palin, Sarah (born 11 February 1964)
- opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Trump, Donald (born 14 June 1946)
- role played of/by Conway, Kellyanne (born 20 January 1967). Notes: 2018 TV special "Make America Great-a-Thon: A President Show Special"
Events
- Relationship : Divorce dates 2006 (Matt Moline)
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 2009 (Memoir, "Official Book Club Selection")
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield provided birth notice from Forest Park Review (Forest Park, Illinois), 10 November 1960, p. 4; full name and date of birth stated but no time given.
Categories
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces (One)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (One)
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Comedy
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (LGBT rights)
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ("Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin")
- Notable : Awards : Emmy
- Notable : Awards : Grammy
- Notable : Famous : Socialite
- 1960 births
- Birthday 4 November
- Birthplace Oak Park, IL (US)
- Sun 12 Scorpio
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress
- Vocation : Entertainment : Comedy
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer
- Notable : Awards : Emmy
- Notable : Awards : Grammy
- Notable : Famous : Socialite