Editing Ruby Wax (section)

==Early life==
Wax was born Ruby Wachs and raised in [[Evanston, Illinois]], the daughter of Edward and Berthe Wachs (''née'' Goldmann). Her parents were [[History of the Jews in Austria|Austrian Jews]] who left [[Vienna]] in 1938 because of the [[Nazism|Nazi]] threat.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ruby Wax: "I've spent a lifetime giving the illusion all is well. It wasn't and it isn't" |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/07/ruby-wax-not-as-well-as-i-thought-i-was-depression-interview-cast-away |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=25 October 2023 |date=7 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20050626.shtml |title=Desert Island Discs - Ruby Wax |website=[[BBC Radio 4]] |date=26 June 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/26/ruby-wax-the-kids-didnt-know-i-had-depression-until-they-were-older-my-husband-covered-for-me |title=Ruby Wax: 'The kids didn't know I had depression until they were older. My husband covered for me' |first=Nikki |last=Spencer |date=26 May 2017 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=7 October 2017}}</ref> Her father was a sausage manufacturer<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/28/1017206134483.html |title=Ruby waxes lyrical about life |first=Simon |last=Hattenstone |date=29 March 2002 |newspaper=[[The Age]] |location=Melbourne |access-date=27 December 2014}}</ref> and her mother qualified as an accountant. Once settled in [[Chicago]], her father [[Anglicisation of names#German surnames|changed the spelling of the family surname]] from Wachs to Wax.<ref name="wdytyam">{{cite web|url=https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/ruby-wax/|title=Ruby Wax|publisher=Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine|access-date=2 December 2021}}</ref>

Wax majored in [[psychology]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], leaving after a year without completing her degree.<ref name=personally>{{cite web |url=http://www.personallyspeakingbureau.com/speaker/ruby-wax/ |title=Ruby Wax |website=Personally Speaking Bureau |access-date=7 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{ Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/17/ruby-wax-depression-interview |title=Ruby Wax: 'I think I became a cartoon to escape how ill I was'|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=24 October 2017|date=2011-07-16|last1=Day|first1=Elizabeth}}</ref>