Kristin Rudrüd

Kristin Rudrüd
Kristin Rudrüd
Born	May 23, 1955 (age 66); Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.

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

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 actor. In 1996, Rudrüd starred as William H. Macy's doomed wife in Joel and Ethan Coen's dark 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.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[]

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

Selected filmography[]

A Psychic Mom (1993) - Judy Banning
Fargo (1996) - Jean Lundegaard
Pleasantville (1998) - Mary
Frog and Wombat (1998) - Mrs. Reverend Walker
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) - Connie Rudrüd, the Pork Products Lady
Herman U.S.A. (2001) - Gloria Swanson

References[]

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

External links[]

Kristin Rudrüd at IMDb

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[prairie-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".

[4] "A Psychic Mom (1993) - IMDb".

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