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Lara Ricote
Miami, Florida, US
Lara Ricote is a Mexican-American comedian based in the Netherlands. Ricote is the daughter of actress Gabriela Rivero and photographer Luis Francisco Ricote. She grew up in Miami…
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Lara Ricote is a Mexican-American comedian based in the Netherlands. Ricote is the daughter of actress Gabriela Rivero and photographer Luis Francisco Ricote. She grew up in Miami before moving to the Netherlands to study politics at the University of Amsterdam. Ricote began performing improv and stand-up comedy while studying in Amsterdam. She has performed in both English and Spanish. In 2021, Ricote won the Funny Women Stage Award. At the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, she performed her debut solo show GRL/LATNX/DEF and won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. In May 2022, Ricote featured in Rosie Jones's Disability Comedy Extravaganza, a comedy special broadcast on Dave. In October the same year, she appeared on the panel shows Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable and Question Team, both also broadcast on Dave. In January 2025 she appeared on 5 daily episodes of Richard Osman’s House of Games, season 8 week 12, alongside former Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton and comedians Ben Bailey Smith (aka Doc Brown) and Robin Ince. In September 2025 Ricote appeared in sketch comedy series Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping.
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2026
Break Clause
TV show Lil
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2026
Make That Movie
TV show Jess
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2026
Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism)
Movie Self
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2025
Dating in Your 20s
Movie The Insecure
- 2025
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2025
Iain Stirling's Roast The Internet
TV show Herself
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2024
Lara Ricote: GRL/LATNX/DEF
Movie Self
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2024
Break Clause
Movie Lil
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2024
Battle In The Box
TV show Self
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2021
Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains
TV show Self
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2017
Richard Osman's House of Games
TV show Self - Panellist
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2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
TV show Self
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2013
The Last Leg
TV show Self
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2011
World's Most Dangerous Roads
TV show Self
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2004
Live at the Apollo
TV show Self
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2003
QI
TV show Self
