American actress and singer

Lea DeLaria

Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer. She portrayed Carrie "Big Boo" Black on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and Psychic Madame Delphina on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live from 1999 to 2011. She also starred in the Broadway productions POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive in 2022 and the 2000 revival of The Rocky Horror Show. She was the first openly gay comic to appear on American television in a 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show.

Born

1958

May 23

Died

Living

Era

1950s

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Key dates

1958 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

1430 Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
1498 Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
1533 The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1568 Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau defeat Jean de Ligne and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War.

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The world in 1958

When Lea arrived

april 14 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
april 21 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
april 26 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
april 4 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

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Alan García 1949–2019 Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949) Annemarie Schwarzenbach 1908–1942 Swiss author and photographer (died 1942) Barbara Ward 1914–1981 Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (died 1981) C. R. M. F. Cruttwell 1887–1941 English historian (born 1887) Charles Barry 1795–1860 English architect, designed Upper Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of Westminster (born 1795) Franz Kline 1910–1962 American painter and academic (born 1910) Franz Mesmer 1734–1815 German physician and astrologist (born 1734) H. Jon Benjamin 1966– American actor, comedian, writer, and producer Lena Meyer-Landrut 1991– German singer-songwriter

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Adrian Newey 1958– English aerodynamicist and engineer Andy Reid 1958– American football player and coach Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006 Russian journalist and activist (died 2006) Betsy DeVos 1958– American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education Caryl Phillips 1958– Caribbean-English author and playwright Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Chris Columbus 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Hugo Sánchez 1958– Mexican footballer, coach, and manager Jennifer Saunders 1958– English actress, comedian and screenwriter

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