Tiffany Haddish
Birthdate: Dec 3, 1979
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Tiffany Haddish (birthname: Tiffany Sara Cornilia Haddish) claims one of contemporary Hollywood's most dramatic rags-to-riches stories. As a Black female comedian, she represents a vanguard of a new generation of female comics of color who have successfully made the jump from stand-up clubs and TV spots to feature films.
After two decades on the stand-up circuit (some of which she spent living out of her car), guest TV, and supporting credits in TV and film (including Keanu (2016) with Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key), Haddish scored with the scene-stealing role of Dina in Girls Trip (2017) with Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, and Jada Pinkett Smith, with a surprise best-supporting actress prize from the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle. This one award dramatically raised Haddish’s profile overnight, opening the door to grade-A projects that had previously been out of her grasp.
Tiffany Haddish expanded her appeal with such NBA-friendly projects as Uncle Drew (2018), with an All-Star cast including Shaquille O’Neal, Chris Webber, Kyrie Irving, Reggie Miller, and Lisa Leslie. Her star had risen to the level that just her last name was needed above the title of Night School (2018), co-starring fellow comic Kevin Hart. Her name rose to the top of the poster in Tyler Perry’s hit 2018 comedy, Nobody’s Fool, with Tika Sumpter.
Like so many comics of her generation, Haddish—with her distinctive, high-attitude voice--was steadily cast to do vocals for major animation projects, including The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019), The Secret Lives of Pets 2 (2019), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020), and Disney’s Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020).
Perhaps the most interesting shift that Haddish has accomplished—sometimes little observed—is her subtle move into high-end dramas, like the female-powered The Kitchen (2020) with Melissa McCarthy and Elisabeth Moss; Jerrod Carmichael’s Sundance prizewinning On the Count of Three (2021); Billy Crystal’s bittersweet Here Today (2021); and most brilliantly, a savvy gambler in Paul Schrader’s dark The Card Counter (2021) opposite Oscar Isaac.
Haddish’s busy 2022 continued with Chris Spencer’s Back on the Strip, with Wesley Snipes and Kevin Hart, followed in 2023 with Disney’s Haunted Mansion with Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, and LaKeith Stanfield; and Cory Finley’s sci-fi adaptation of M.T. Anderson’s Landscape with Invisible Hand, with Josh Hamilton and Clifton Collins Jr.
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Personal Details
Tiffany Haddish was born in Los Angeles in 1979, to parents Tsihaye Reda Haddish, an Eritrean Jewish refugee, and Leola Haddish. She has pairs of half-sisters and half-brothers, all born after her mother divorced and remarried while running her own business. Haddish became her family’s main caregiver at nine years old when her mother Leola had brain damage following a car accident, causing a schizophrenic condition. Haddish later learned that her stepfather had tampered with the brakes intending to kill the family and collect the insurance.
She was placed in foster care at age 13 and then raised by her grandmother. While attending and graduating from the Los Angeles-based El Camino Real High School, she won drama contests and became the school mascot, but she also suffered a rape incident and ended up homeless after graduation. After attending the Laugh Factory Comedy Camp at 17 (with Richard Pryor and the Wayans Brothers as mentors), Haddish was accepted to New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts but instead attended Santa Monica College. She married William Stewart, a detective, in 2008, and divorced him in 2013. Her height is 5’ 6”.
Awards
Winner, Best Supporting Actress, New York Film Critics Circle (2017); Winner, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Emmy Awards (2018); Winner, Female Star of Tomorrow, CinemaCon (2018); Winner, Best Comedy Album, Grammy Awards (2021).
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Filmography
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- 2023 | Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
- 2023 | Landscape with Invisible Hand
Landscape with Invisible Hand
When an occupying alien species' bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures.
- 2023 | Back on the Strip
Back on the Strip
A young man moves to Las Vegas to pursue his dream of being a magician, only to end up joining a male stripper group.
- 2023 | Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion
A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.
- 2022 | Comedy Confessions
- 2022 | On the Count of Three
On the Count of Three
Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut and stars in On the Count of Three, a darkly comic feature about two best friends, Val (Carmichael) and Kevin (Christopher Abbott), on the last day of their lives.
- 2022 | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Moviestar Nick Cage is channeling his iconic characters as he's caught between a superfan and a CIA agent.
- 2021 | Bad Trip
- 2021 | The Card Counter
The Card Counter
Redemption is the long game in Paul Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER. Told with Schrader's trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his p...
- 2020 | Like a Boss
Like a Boss
Two friends with very different ideals start a beauty company together. One is more practical while the other wants to earn her fortune and live a lavish lifestyle.
- 2019 | I Am Richard Pryor
- 2019 | The Angry Birds Movie 2
The Angry Birds Movie 2
The flightless birds and scheming green pigs take their feud to the next level.
- 2019 | The Kitchen
The Kitchen
The wives of New York gangsters in Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s continue to operate their husbands' rackets after they're locked up in prison.
- 2019 | The Secret Life of Pets 2
The Secret Life of Pets 2
Continuing the story of Max and his pet friends, following their secret lives after their owners leave them for work or school each day.
- 2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
- 2018 | All Between Us
- 2018 | Nobody’s Fool
Nobody’s Fool
A woman is released from prison and reunites with her sister. She soon discovers that her sister is in an online relationship with a man who may not be what he seems.
- 2018 | The Oath (2018)
The Oath (2018)
In a politically divided America, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.
- 2018 | Uncle Drew
Uncle Drew
An anti-ageist comedy about a man's dream to win the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem.
- 2017 | Girls Trip
Girls Trip
When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.
- 2016 | Night School
Night School
A documentary about three students determined to graduate from their high school in Indianapolis, despite the fact that the institution has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country.
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- 2014 | Patterns of Attraction
- 2014 | School Dance
- 2014 | Wishes
- 2013 | A Christmas Wedding
- 2005 | The Urban Demographic
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- 2021 | Here Today
Here Today
When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York street singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
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- 2018 | Lost in America
Lost in America
Following director Rotimi Rainwater, a former homeless youth, as he travels the country to shine a light on the epidemic of youth homelessness in America.
Some Facts About Tiffany Haddish
Multilingual: Tiffany Haddish speaks fluent Japanese.
Economizing: Haddish was disturbed at the $4000 worth of a dress selected by her stylist for one red-carpet event, so she has worn it several times.
First: Haddish is the first Black female comic to host Saturday Night Live.
Influence: Time magazine selected Tiffany Haddish as one of the publication’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2018.
