1. Lauren Ridloff is an American actress known for her roles in the TV series The Walking Dead and the film Eternals.
29 Facts About Lauren Ridloff
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Lauren Ridloff attended California State University, Northridge and later earned a master's degree in education from Hunter College.
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Lauren Ridloff initially worked as a teacher before pursuing acting, and she was crowned Miss Deaf America.
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Lauren Ridloff then joined the ninth season of The Walking Dead, and she was cast as the first deaf superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the film Eternals.
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Lauren Ridloff Teruel was born on April 6,1978, in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.
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Lauren Ridloff was born deaf to hearing parents, a Mexican-American father and an African-American mother.
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Lauren Ridloff's father Hugo was a counselor at University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Lauren Ridloff was a musician, and Ridloff's mother was an artist.
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Lauren Ridloff grew up in the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park.
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Lauren Ridloff's parents thought their infant had a developmental delay, but by the time she was two years old, they learned that she was deaf.
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Lauren Ridloff began exploring the arts, starting with ceramics and becoming involved with drama.
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Lauren Ridloff was on the cheerleading team and became one of the first deaf American cheerleaders to compete internationally.
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Lauren Ridloff chose to attend California State University, Northridge, a university with a large deaf and hard-of-hearing student population, because of its National Center on Deafness.
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Lauren Ridloff majored in English with an emphasis in creative writing, completing her degree in 2001.
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Lauren Ridloff won the preliminary competition of Miss Deaf Illinois and ultimately won Miss Deaf America.
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Lauren Ridloff was the second consecutive CSUN graduate to win the crown, and she was the first competitor of either African-American or Mexican-American descent to win the pageant.
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Lauren Ridloff was involved with deaf community theater and film work for friends.
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Lauren Ridloff married Douglas Ridloff, whom she met at CSUN, in 2006, and they have two children, both boys and both deaf.
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Lauren Ridloff played a small role as a superpowered agent in the 2017 film Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes.
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Lauren Ridloff joined the production of the 2017 film Wonderstruck as a consultant and was ultimately cast in a small role.
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Lauren Ridloff appeared in the lyric video for the song "Love Me Now" by John Legend.
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Lauren Ridloff asked her to substitute at a read-through early on, and based on her performance, he offered her the role as Sarah Norman.
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Lauren Ridloff compares the experience of using her voice during the play to a crotch shot, saying that at first she felt exposed, and vulnerable, and ugly.
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Lauren Ridloff was a fan of the TV series The Walking Dead, which had premiered in 2010, and submitted an audition tape to be cast in the series.
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Lauren Ridloff was cast as Connie and started her role in the show's ninth season, which premiered in October 2018.
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In July 2019, Lauren Ridloff was cast in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals as the superhero Makkari, who in the comics is a hearing and white man.
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Lauren Ridloff was attached as executive producer along with DuVernay and Jackson.
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In July 2022, Lauren Ridloff was one of three deaf actors cast in an episode of the Fox anthology drama TV series Accused, with the episode being directed by Marlee Matlin, and the episode aired in January 2023.
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In 2020, Lauren Ridloff received the SAG-AFTRA Harold Russell Award at the 41st Media Access Awards.