Tiffany Haddish

CTL-E-6077 · Person · other · 1979–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07299 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6077.

Tiffany Haddish, born 3 December 1979 in South Central Los Angeles, is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Her father, Tsihaye Reda Haddish, was a refugee from Eritrea; her mother, Leola, was an African American business owner. After her mother suffered severe brain damage in a car accident, Haddish entered foster care at twelve and found her footing at a Laugh Factory comedy camp. Years of small roles and stand-up led to a star-making turn as Dina in Girls Trip (2017), named among the century's best film performances by The New Yorker. That year she became the first Black woman stand-up comedian to host Saturday Night Live, winning a Primetime Emmy for the episode, and published the best-selling memoir The Last Black Unicorn. Her album Black Mitzvah (2019) won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 2021. In 2019 she became a naturalized Eritrean citizen while burying her father in his homeland, and she has publicly honored her Eritrean heritage throughout her career.

The record

• Also known as: Tiffany Cornilia Haddish

Notes

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Relationships

• Girls Trip — starred in
  Haddish is one of the film’s four leads; TheWrap (opened for the film’s record) wrote that the performance launched her into mainstream stardom. starred_in runs Person→Work per the schema matrix and is minted from the Person side at assembly.
• Los Angeles, California — from
  Tiffany Haddish was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, California (CTL-E-3041) (Wikipedia, 'Tiffany Haddish').

Referenced by

• Black Mitzvah — authored by → this record

Sources

• Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Tiffany Haddish' — born 3 December 1979; gained fame as Dina in Girls Trip (2017); her Eritrean father left and her mother suffered brain damage, and Haddish spent time in foster care; hosted Saturday Night Live in 2017 and won an Emmy for it; memoir The Last Black Unicorn (2017) — http://britannica.com/biography/tiffany-haddish (primary source · build store)
• Essence, 'I Love My People: Go Inside Tiffany Haddish's Holiday Trip to Eritrea' — her father, the late Tsihaye Reda Haddish, was a refugee from Eritrea; she received her Eritrean ID card, met President Isaias Afwerki, and has worn Eritrean dress to awards ceremonies in his honor — https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/tiffany-haddish-eritrea/ (build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Tiffany Haddish' (mirror) — born and raised in South Central Los Angeles; father an Eritrean Jew, mother African American; Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for Black Mitzvah, the second African American woman to win the prize after Whoopi Goldberg; Primetime Emmy for hosting SNL (2017) — https://jhwikicollection-20.fandom.com/wiki/Tiffany_Haddish (build store)
• ScoreBig, 'Tiffany Haddish Tickets' (accessed Oct 2026) — Haddish performed at the Bricktown Comedy Club in Tulsa on 3 Oct 2026, with further dates including Brea, California on 31 Oct 2026 — https://www.scorebig.com/performers/tiffany-haddish-53118 (build store)

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