

Rita Rudner moved to New York at the age of fifteen to become a dancer on Broadway. Rita helped write the 20 Oscar shows with Steve Martin and the 2002 Oscar broadcast with Whoopi Goldberg. For her work on the show, American Women In Radio and Television awarded Rudner a Gracie Allen Award for Best Program Host.
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In 2003, Rudner launched from Las Vegas her first syndicated daily TV show, Ask Rita, which featured a panel of celebrities lightheartedly attempting to solve personal problems submitted by members of the public it ran for two years.

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The couple’s second film project, a TV movie called A Weekend In The Country, starred Rita, Jack Lemmon, Dudley Moore, Richard Lewis, Christine Lahti, Betty White and Faith Ford.īergman and Rudner’s last film, Thanks, premiered at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival, won several awards on the film festival circuit and was bought by and frequently aired on Showtime. The script was nominated for a WGA Best Screenplay Award and Rita won Best Supporting Actress at the American Comedy Awards. The film, starring Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Imelda Staunton, Stephen Fry, and Rita, won the Evening Standard Peter Sellers Award for Best British Film and was nominated for the Goya Award for Best European Film of 1994. The couple’s first produced film script was Peter’s Friends. Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband of thirty years, Martin Bergman. Her autobiography, My Life in Dog Years, was published earlier this year. The audio version of Naked Beneath My Clothes received a Grammy nomination.
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Rita Rudner has written six books her bestselling non-fiction titles, Naked Beneath My Clothes, Rita Rudner’s Guide to Men and I Still Have It…I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It, plus the novels Tickled Pink and T urning the Tables. In 2008 Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBS’s first ever stand-up comedy special. Rudner’s two one-hour specials for HBO, Born to Be Mild and Married Without Children, were ratings standouts and she performed all over the country, filling Carnegie Hall in New York three times. Rita’s first solo HBO special, Rita Rudner’s One Night Stand, was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on A&E. In October 2017 she was given the Casino Entertainment Legend Award. She was named Las Vegas’s Comedian of The Year nine years in a row and in 2006 received The Nevada Ballet’s Woman Of The Year Award. Over the course of a multi-year run she sold almost two million tickets, grossed over a hundred million dollars and become the longest-running solo female comedy show in the history of Las Vegas. A house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in June 2000, Rudner is known for her epigrammatic one-liners.
