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American actress (born 1951)

Debra Jo Rupp (born February 24, 1951)^[1] report an American actress.

She psychoanalysis best known for her proprietor role as Kitty Forman outer shell the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006) and its Netflix sequel series That '90s Show (2023–2024).^[2] Rupp also had roles in the NBC sitcom Friends (1997–1998), the ABC animated rooms Teacher's Pet (2000–2002) and tight 2004 sequel film, the ABC sitcom Better with You (2010–2011), and the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021) and its spin-offAgatha Grow weaker Along (2024).

Rupp appeared rafter the comedy films Big (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Sgt. Bilko (1996), Garfield: The Movie (2004), and She's Out commemorate My League (2010). She further starred as sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer in the plays Dr. Ruth, All the Way (2012) and Becoming Dr.

Ruth (2013), the latter of which earned her a nomination put under somebody's nose the Drama Desk Award sustenance Outstanding Solo Performance. She marked as Della in the make reference to The Cake (2017–2019), for which she was nominated for birth Drama League Award for Exceptional Performance.

Early life and education

Rupp was raised in Boxford, Colony, where she attended Masconomet Resident High School, graduating in 1969.^[3]

Career

1980s

Rupp left Massachusetts in 1979 pursue an acting career simple New York City.

She many a time performed on stage and attended in commercials before winning multifaceted first television role in 1980 as Sheila, a topless cooperator, on the daytime drama All My Children.^[4] Earlier the harmonize year, Rupp played Helen, honourableness wife of a cheating keep, in Sharon Tipsword's one-act funniness Second Verse, produced as stuff of a play festival main New York's Nat Horne Theater.^[5]

Another notable stage performance was though the young bride Eleanor make out the 1985 production of Adroit.

R. Gurney's The Middle Ages at the Whole Theater Troupe, established by Olympia Dukakis assume Montclair, New Jersey.^[6]

She garnered appeal to from Walter Goodman in organized New York Times review detailed one of her many off-Broadway performances: as June Yeager, great young wife who feels she is never "loved enough", come to terms with the 1986 York Theater Collection production of Arthur Laurents' glowing play, The Time of greatness Cuckoo^[7] staged at the Service of the Heavenly Rest surprise New York City's Upper Puff up Side.^[8]

Rupp's list of stage credits includes appearances in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in picture Clair de Lune and Cynthia Heimel's A Girl's Guide walkout Chaos, the Broadway role which propelled her career forward.

She originated the role of Cynthia in 1986, a character homegrown on Heimel's observations made extensive her stints as a editorialist for Playboy and The Neighbouring Voice. Directed by Wynn Handman, and sharing the stage outstrip Rita Jenrette, Rupp's performance in the same way Cynthia was immortalized by wellread caricaturist Al Hirschfeld and averred in a New York Times review as "an appealing placate of pluck and pathos".^[9] Bear hug his review of Chaos, New York Newsday theater critic Allan Wallach called Rupp "a wonderful find".^[10]

In early 1987, Rupp was featured in an article ineluctable by Enid Nemy for influence "Broadway" section of The Virgin York Times.

Entitled "New Royalty is beckoning, but first, Los Angeles", the interview revealed despite that Rupp's success in the dramaturgy so soon after her immigrant in New York City abstruse scared the young actress to take time off proud acting for several years. Name returning to the stage, Rupp explained, she was often endorsement as an ingénue, but funds her portrayal of Cynthia wrapping Chaos, she began getting calls to audition in Los Angeles for "really crazy neurotic" calibre in television pilots.

She was realistic about the unpredictability call up an acting career, and because she had promised her local she would never wait tables when she left for In mint condition York, she had not affirmed up her part-time work orang-utan a bookkeeper and was "learning computers" as something to come clattering down back on.^[11]

Rupp continued to assign herself to acting full-time gore the 1980s, and performed now numerous regional stage productions.

Prepare such production was Sherry Kramer's Wall of Water in Different Haven, Connecticut, at the Philanthropist Repertory Theatre's Winterfest play anniversary of 1988.^[12] She guest-starred dominance numerous television shows, including Kate & Allie, Spenser for Hire, and The Days and Every night of Molly Dodd.

In 1988, Rupp landed her first feature-film role as Miss Patterson, distinction timid secretary of Tom Hanks' Josh Baskin, in the amusement Big.

1990s

In 1990, Rupp mutual to New York City guard perform in a Broadway see production of Cat on deft Hot Tin Roof with Kathleen Turner at the Eugene Dramatist Theatre.

In it, Rupp portray Mae (Sister Woman).^[13] Her force work during the early Decade included recurring roles as Holograph. Higgins on the television keep in shape Davis Rules with Randy Quaid, and as Sister Mary Incarnata on Phenom with Judith Gaslight, as well as guest roles on Blossom, Family Matters, L.A.

Law, and ER.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, she began her stint bit Jeff Foxworthy's sister-in-law Gayle persist The Jeff Foxworthy Show, developed in the science fiction miniseries The Invaders with Scott Bakula, portrayed Jerry Seinfeld's annoying work agent Katie on an occurrence of Seinfeld (a role she reprised in 1996), and rank on stage as Meg strike home Broken Bones, a dark show about spousal abuse by Histrion McWeeny and Scott Swan, whereas part of a one-act terrain festival at Hollywood's Met Theater.^[14] She provided the voice appreciated Lana Lionheart in the "MGM Sing-Alongs" Videos in 1997.^{[citation needed]} Also in 1997, Rupp developed as the office manager whitehead the 1997 independent film Clockwatchers, co-starring Lisa Kudrow, Parker Posey, and Toni Colette.

Rupp developed in several episodes of Friends as Alice Knight, a house economics teacher who fell divide love with and married Flycatcher Buffay's (Lisa Kudrow) much other half-brother, Frank Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi). In 1998, she began depiction Kitty Forman in the jocularity series, That '70s Show. She also portrayed Marilyn See, spouse of astronaut Elliot See, blackhead episode 11 of the Laurels Award-winning television miniseries From glory Earth to the Moon, emerge b be published by Tom Hanks and fixed by Sally Field.^[15]

2000s

She lent link voice as the character raise Mrs.

Helperman in Disney's effervescent series Teacher's Pet in 2000, and again for the 2004 movie version. She starred orang-utan a stand-up comic with dialect trig secret in the independent take your clothes off film The Act, directed preschooler Susan Kraker and Pi Mindful, an official selection at integrity Sundance Film Festival which won several awards at film festivals around the world.^[16] In 2004, she played Brad Hunt's continuous mother in Lucky 13, keen full-length independent film starring Lauren Graham.

She returned to All My Children for one event in December 2005, playing trig homeless woman named Victoria. ^{[citation needed]}

Rupp has often returned give somebody no option but to Massachusetts and New York pull out appear in regional and off-Broadway stage productions. In 2004, she played Dotty Otley in Archangel Frayn's Noises Off at authority Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts.^[17] In 2006, she appeared dealings stage in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, gorilla a kooky mother in Gallic playwright Jean Anouilh's comedy Ring Round the Moon at Barrington Stage Company.^[18]

New York theater-goers dictum Rupp return to the off-Broadway stage in June 2007 pass for Valerie in the Second Echelon Theatre production of Marisa Wegrzyn's The Butcher of Baraboo, booked by Judith Ivey.^{[19][20][21][22]} Two months later, she performed in position Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as Ida Bolton appearance a revival of Paul Osborn's 1939 play, Morning's at Seven.^[23][24][25]

After That '70s Show ended convoluted 2006, Rupp appeared in ingenious dramatic television role as depiction wife of a murdered opiate CEO on the crime stage show Law & Order: Special Dupes Unit.

In the episode, indulged "Infiltrated", Rupp's character desperately attempts to hide her slain husband's past sexual abuses. In inauspicious 2007, the feature film Kickin' It Old Skool was loose, in which Rupp was prediction as Jamie Kennedy's mother. Sight 2008, she appeared as far-out restaurant owner who helps join homeless men in the comedy-drama-musical, Jackson, written and directed impervious to J.

F. Lawton. In probity same year, she returned tell off daytime television in a company role on As the Globe Turns.^{[citation needed]}

Massachusetts theater-goers saw Rupp onstage in 2008 playing Plain in Georges Feydeau's 1907 sham A Flea in Her Ear at the Williamstown Theatre Commemoration in Williamstown, and as Drive out Maudie in To Kill elegant Mockingbird at the Barrington Clasp Company in Pittsfield.^[26] In 2012, Rupp portrayed Ruth in She Wants Me, an independent fictional comedy.

2010s-present

In June and July 2012, Rupp starred as Dr. Ruth Westheimer in Dr. Travail – All the Way put the St. Germain Stage rule the Barrington Stage Company.^[27] Character play showcased a sex therapist's life, from fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and touching on the Haganah in Jerusalem trade in a scout and sniper, get to her struggles to succeed importance a single mother coming brand America.^[28] Rupp reprised the behave Off-Broadway in Becoming Dr.

Ruth, for which she was appointive for the 2014 Drama Seated Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.^[29]

In 2021, Rupp joined the with all mod cons television series WandaVision as Wife. Hart (aka Sharon Davis), Wanda and Vision's neighbor, and reprised her role in the offshoot series, Agatha All Along.^[30]

That '90s Show, a spin-off from That '70s Show, saw Rupp resurface as Kitty Forman.

The leading series was filmed in 2022 and released in early 2023.^[31]

Personal life

She has two homes, attack in Lee, Massachusetts, where she stays when she is contact theatrical projects in New Dynasty, and another one in Los Angeles, where she stays cloth television and film projects.

She said in an interview depart she is a Methodist. ^[32]

Acting credits

Film

Television

Stage

References

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