Rachel Dratch

Dratch is also an alumna of Dartmouth College (class of 1988), where she majored in drama and psychology and was a member of the improvisational comedy group, Said and Done. She attended the National Theater Institute in the fall of 1986.
Career
Dratch was a member of the mainstage cast of The Second City comedy troupe for four years.

She received the Joseph Jefferson award for Best Actress in a Revue for the latter two revues in which she performed: "Paradigm Lost," and "Promisekeepers, Losers Weepers." At Second City she performed alongside future SNL head writers Adam McKay and Tina Fey, as well as future 30 Rock performer Scott Adsit. The first incarnation of her SNL "Wicked" sketch was performed in Second City's Paradigm Lost.The theater also hosted the first incarnation of Dratch & Fey (her critically praised two-woman show with Tina Fey) which was later performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York, where it was dubbed "the funniest thing to be found on any New York comedy stage" by Time Out New York.
Dratch has appeared in several movies, including Martin & Orloff, The Hebrew Hammer, Down with Love, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, "Spring Breakdown" and "My Life in Ruins." She also has joined fellow SNL cast members on A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T.: Improv which aired September 7, 2005, on the Bravo channel. Dratch has also made television appearances on NBC's Third Watch and in a recurring role on King of Queens (playing Denise, the on-off girlfriend of Spence, who worked in a bowling alley).

Other tv appearances include "Monk", ""Frasier", "Wizards of Waverly Place", and "30 Rock."
Saturday Night Live
1999-2006. Dratch's recurring characters include the Boston Teens (Sully and Denise); Sheldon, the junior high school boy from "Wake up Wakefield"; The "Lovers" with Will Ferrell as two pretentious professors; and Abe Scheinwald, Hollywood Producer.One of her most famous recurring characters was Debbie Downer, a depressed woman who creeps others out with disturbing non sequiturs. Dratch's first sketch featuring Downer became infamous when during the sketch, Downer's remarks about sterility, the greenhouse effect, and feline AIDS caused everyone (including Dratch) to break character. She performed on SNL for seven seasons.
Saturday Night Live characters
Original characters

Abe Scheinwald, a sleazy movie executive who tries to stop his grandson (played by Seth Meyers) from making Scheinwald Studios' films artistic
A cocktail waitress in "Rialto Grande"
Debbie Downer
Suckin' Dick, a terrible amateur Asian actor.
Denise "Zazu" McDonough, one of the Boston Teens
One of the dancers in the "Lundford Twins Feel Good Variety Hour"
Lynne Bershad from Delicious Dish (replacing Molly Shannon's character for a short time)
Nicole, the Girl With No Gay-Dar!
Phoebe, a woman who has giant pets who ruin her dates (both giant pets have been played by Fred Armisen)
Ruth Weinstock, one of the Adult Students
Sheldon from Wake Up Wakefield!
Virginia Klarvin, one of the The Lovers
Qterplix, a rejected X-Men character, said to be the love child of Angelina Jolie and her brother
Loretta, one of the space lesbians from "Gays in Space"
David Mack Wilson, a child Broadway star
Tiara Zee, one of the veejays from "Deep House Dish"
One of the Telemundo actresses from "Besos Y Lagrimas"
Alice, Ben's assistant in Click

Celebrity impersonations
Amy Ray (of The Indigo Girls)
Anne Robinson
Arianna Huffington
Barbara Walters (also performed on 30 Rock)
Brett Somers
Britney Spears (in a pretaped fake commercial for the short-lived reality show, Britney and Kevin: Chaotic with Seth Meyers as Kevin Federline)
Calista Flockhart
Cheb Mami
Cynthia Nixon
Denise Nickerson (best known for her role as Violet Beauregard, the girl who swelled up into a blueberry after chewing Willy Wonka's experimental gum, in the 1970s film version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
Diane Warren
Drew Barrymore
Elijah Wood
Elizabeth Taylor (also performed on 30 Rock)
Eva Longoria (coincidentally, on the episode hosted by Longoria in a sketch spoofing Vanity Fair's Desperate Housewives photo shoot Longoria played Teri Hatcher)
Harriet Miers
Harry Potter
Helena Bonham Carter portraying Smurfette in a fake commercial for an NBC made-for-TV mini-series based on The Smurfs
Hilary Duff
Hillary Clinton
Jamie S.

Riley
Jenny Jones
Judith Nathan
Julie Seitter (the voice of the Amtrak telephone line interactive voice response agent)
Kelly Osbourne
Kimberley Locke
Lynndie England
Martha Stewart
Michael Gelman
Monica Lewinsky, in an HBO: First Look parody of the latest Star Wars prequel at the time
Natalie Maines (of The Dixie Chicks)
Nicole Richie
Paula Jones (in a Weekend Update segment about her Celebrity Boxing match with Tonya Harding, played by Amy Poehler)
Paula Poundstone
Rita Rudner
Sue Johanson
Tara Reid
Toni Basil
Wendy Pepper
Zelda Rubenstein, portraying her character from Poltergeist

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