Keith Thibodeaux is a Actor American born on 1 december 1950 at Lafayette (USA)
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Nationality USABirth 1 december 1950 (74 years) at Lafayette (
USA)
Keith Thibodeaux (born December 1, 1950) is a former child actor and musician, best known for playing "Little Ricky" in the I Love Lucy and The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour television shows. He is the last living regular appearing cast member from I Love Lucy.
Biography
Raised as a Roman Catholic, Thibodeaux went to school at St. Victor's elementary in West Hollywood and St. Jane Frances de Chantel in North Hollywood. He attended Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks for two years before his parents separated in 1966.
Keith, his mother, and siblings moved back to Lafayette, Louisiana. He graduated from Lafayette High School where he continued to play drums in rock and rhythm and blues bands. He left Louisiana for Mississippi in late 1969 after going to college for a short period where he said he "majored in drinking beer and playing pool" to pursue a career with the band David and the Giants.
In 1976, he met and married a ballet dancer named Kathy Denton in Jackson, MS. The couple moved to Southern California in 1977 where he was asked to join the pop band Starbuck famous for the late 70s hit "Moonlight Feels Right".
After 2 weeks of rehearsals in Atlanta, Thibodeaux returned to Mississippi in 1978, where he, his wife and daughter Tara (born 1979) eventually settled in Jackson, Mississippi. Thibodeaux played with jazz bands locally for a brief time before joining a newly revamped Christian David and the Giants.
His wife Kathy, Founder and Artistic Director of Ballet Magnificat! was a former principal dancer of Ballet Mississippi who won a Silver Medal in the Senior Division of the 1982 II USA International Ballet Competition.
Tara their daughter, also a dancer and choreographer, was a semi-finalist at the age of 15 in the V USA International Ballet Competition held in 1994 and later in 2001 and 2002 was an Atlanta Hawks cheerleader.
She married Bryce Drew in 2004 who is famous for "The Shot" in the 1998 NCAA Sweet Sixteen Tournament. Drew was a 1st round draft pick in the NBA and played professionally for 6 seasons for the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, and Charlotte Hornets.
Thibodeaux's autobiography "Life After Lucy" was published in 1994.
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