Lauren Ridloff Biography
Lauren Ridloff is a deaf American actress best known for her work in The Walking Dead and Eternals. Her breakout role was as the lead in the Broadway play Children of a Lesser God in 2018, for which she received multiple nominations.
Lauren Ridloff Age
Lauren was born Lauren Teruel on April 6, 1978, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. She is 45 years old as of April 2023.
Lauren Ridloff Education
She went to the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C., where she was surrounded by other deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Ridloff chose to attend California State University, Northridge because of its National Center on Deafness, which has a substantial deaf and hard-of-hearing student population. She majored in English with a concentration on creative writing and graduated in 2001.
Lauren Ridloff Height
Lauren stands at a height of 5′ 2″ (1.57 m) tall.
Lauren Ridloff Parents- Husband
Ridloff father is called Hugo Ridloff. She married Douglas Ridloff, who she met at CSUN, in 2006, and they have two children, both boys and both deaf.
Lauren Ridloff Career
In the 2017 film Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes, Ridloff played a minor role as a superpowered agent. She also worked as a consultant on Todd Haynes’ 2017 silent film Wonderstruck before being hired in a small role as a hearing woman. She also made an appearance in John Legend’s “Love Me Now” lyric video. After the conclusion of Children of a Lesser God in May 2018, Ridloff. Ridloff was engaged to educate him in American Sign Language when director Kenny Leon began producing a production of the 1980 drama Children of a Lesser God. Ridloff had been Leon’s tutor for nearly a year. He cast her in the role of Sarah Norman.
Ridloff was a fan of the 2010 television series The Walking Dead and submitted an audition tape to be cast in the show. She was cast as Connie and began her role in the ninth season of the show, which premiered in October 2018. In July 2019, Ridloff was cast as Marvel’s first Deaf superhero, Makkari, in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals, who in the comics is a hearing and white guy. Ridloff’s hiring is part of filmmaker Chloé Zhao’s effort to increase casting representation by revising the character to be a deaf woman of color. Ridloff’s casting makes him the MCU’s first deaf superhero.
Following her involvement in Eternals in 2021, Ridloff re-teamed with Joshua Jackson from Children of a Lesser God to star in a romantic drama TV series conceived by Ava DuVernay for the Starz network. In May 2022, the network committed to a three-season order for the planned series. Ridloff will serve as an executive producer alongside DuVernay and Jackson. Ridloff was one of three deaf actors cast in an episode of the Fox anthology drama TV series Accused in July 2022, directed by Marlee Matlin, and aired in January 2023. Ridloff and several other women in the industry were honored at the Muse Awards in March 2023 by the New York Women in Film & Television.
Lauren Ridloff Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars as of 2023.
Lauren Ridloff Movies
- 2023 Accused
- TBD Charlie and the Hunt
- 2021 Eternals
- 2019 New Amsterdam
- 2019 Sound of Metal Feature film
- 2018–2022 The Walking Dead
- 2018 Children of a Lesser God
- 2018 Legacies
- 2017 Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes Feature film
- 2017 Wonderstruck
