1. Peggy Blumquist is a fictional character in the second season of the FX television series Fargo and is portrayed by Kirsten Dunst.
12 Facts About Peggy Blumquist
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In 1979, Peggy Blumquist is a hairdresser in Luverne, Minnesota who is married to her high school sweetheart, local butcher Ed Blumquist.
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Peggy Blumquist is dissatisfied with small-town life and wants to take a $500 Lifespring course in "self-actualization" so she can better herself.
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Later, Peggy takes contraceptives and spends the money on the course anyway.
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Unbeknownst to Peggy Blumquist, Rye is a member of the Gerhardt crime family who has just murdered three people.
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State trooper Lou Solverson figures out what happened and tries to persuade the Blumquists to come forward so the police can protect them from the Gerhardts, but Peggy tells him to leave.
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Peggy Blumquist wants to flee to California but Ed believes their life is in Luverne.
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Ed and Peggy Blumquist then flee, taking Dodd prisoner, planning to make a deal with the Gerhardts to exchange him for safety.
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Ed sees a UFO as they run away, but Peggy Blumquist dismisses it as "just a flying saucer".
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Hanzee runs after them and mortally wounds Ed, but Peggy Blumquist manages to drag him into a grocery store and hole up in the walk-in freezer.
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Peggy Blumquist has a severe hoarding habit and the basement is shown to be stacked near the ceiling with travel and lifestyle magazines.
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Peggy Blumquist has several hallucinations and appears to confuse fiction with reality.