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Kristin Rudrüd is known for:

  • A Psychic Mom
    A psychic suburban mother--with an affinity for Doris Day films--begins a spiritual journey beyond the confines of her neighborhood and failed nuclear family experience.
  • Fargo
    Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
  • Drop Dead Gorgeous
    In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kristin Rudrüd (Born May 23, 1955) is an American film, theater, and television actress. Rudrüd was born in Fargo, North Dakota, and grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota. 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. After she returned to Fargo, she started her career as a film actor. In 1996, Rudrüd starred as William H. Macy's wife in Joel and Ethan Coen's dark comedy film Fargo. She also had a small role in the 1999 comedy Pleasantville, also starring Macy, a short film Wheels Locked, which received a "Best of the Fest" at the Rochester International Film Festival, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and the short film A Psychic Mom. She has also appeared in television roles on Chicago Hope, and All My Children.