Acting
Lara Ricote
Born 1996-12-31 · 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 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.
Acting credits
NRThe film’s protagonist nips to the toilet on a date, where she finds a band of puppets. The musical stream of consciousness paints a relatable and chaotic picture of what it is like to date in your 20s.
Dating in Your 20s
2025
9.0Stand up comedy performance of Lara Ricote's show "Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism)"
Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism)
2026
7.0Lara's a small Latin American girl (woman?) who won the Funny Women 2021 (right, 'woman') Stage Award and is now doing her first hour about what it's like to be Latin and deaf and a girl who's now a woman at the same time. This show won best newcomer at the ed fringe 2022 if that means something to you. It starts kinda bad but it gets better as it goes along SO JUST give it a little bit of time!!!
Lara Ricote: GRL/LATNX/DEF
2024
1.0This is a classic love story - proper Jane Austen, boy-meets-girl stuff. Except boy and girl break up the day they move in together and are stuck in a six-month contract...
Break Clause
2024
Behind the camera
9.0Stand up comedy performance of Lara Ricote's show "Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism)"
Lara Ricote: Little Tiny Wet Show (baptism)
2026
7.0Lara's a small Latin American girl (woman?) who won the Funny Women 2021 (right, 'woman') Stage Award and is now doing her first hour about what it's like to be Latin and deaf and a girl who's now a woman at the same time. This show won best newcomer at the ed fringe 2022 if that means something to you. It starts kinda bad but it gets better as it goes along SO JUST give it a little bit of time!!!
Lara Ricote: GRL/LATNX/DEF
2024