Kathy Griffin

What I admire most about Kathy Griffin is that she built a career on the riskiest material there is: jokes that actually land somewhere. Coming out of a quiet Chicago suburb and clawing her way to back-to-back Emmys for a show literally titled My Life on the D-List takes a special kind of self-aware nerve. The 2009 GLAAD Vanguard Award tells me she was never just chasing laughs; she was willing to plant a flag. I respect comedians who refuse to play it safe, and Griffin strikes me as someone who would rather be talked about than be comfortable.

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Name (English)

Kathy Griffin

Name (Japanese)

キャシー・グリフィン

Reading

きゃしー・ぐりふぃん

Born

November 4, 1960 (age 65)

Origin

Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / voice actor / television actor / film actor / comedian

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

High school

Oak Park and River Forest High School

University

Triton College

Awards & achievements

• Primetime Emmy Award
• 2009 GLAAD Vanguard Award

• Official sitehttps://www.kathygriffin.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kathygriffin/
• Xhttps://x.com/kathygriffin
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy%20Griffin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q432437

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• voice actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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