Kristin Rudrüd

Kristin Rudrüd (born May 23, 1955) is an American film, theater, and television actress.

Kristin Rudrüd
Born (1955-05-23) May 23, 1955
Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.

Life and career

Rudrüd was born and went to grade school in Fargo, North Dakota. She went to high school in Fargo, and after graduation attended Minnesota State University-Moorhead. She studied acting in London, returned briefly to Fargo, and then went to New York City where she found success in theater; landing a part in Amadeus, and performed a public theater reading of Othello, which starred Al Pacino.[1][2]

After she returned to Fargo, she started her career as a film actress. In 1996, Rudrüd starred as William H. Macy's doomed wife in Joel and Ethan Coen's black comedy film Fargo. She had a small role in the 1999 comedy Pleasantville, also starring Macy; in a short film Wheels Locked,[3] which received a "Best of the Fest" at the Rochester International Film Festival and as an actress in Drop Dead Gorgeous, and in the short film A Psychic Mom.[4]

She appeared in television roles on Chicago Hope, and All My Children.

Personal life

Rudrüd is married and has a daughter, and she still makes her home in Fargo.[1]

Selected filmography

References
  1. Garrison Keillor (December 8, 2001). "Special Guests". A Prairie Home Companion. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
  2. "Life after 'Fargo'". The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. February 26, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
  3. "Wheels Locked (Short 2001) - IMDb". IMDb.
  4. "A Psychic Mom (1993) - IMDb". IMDb.


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