Lauren Ridloff Bio | Wiki
Lauren Ridloff is a popular deaf American actress. She is known for her roles in the TV series The Walking Dead and the film Eternals. She had a lead role in the Broadway play Children of a Lesser God and also received several nominations including a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In addition, in Eternals, released in 2021, she played the deaf superhero Makkari.
Lauren Ridloff Age | Birthday
She was born on April 6, 1978, in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Ridloff is 45 years old.
Lauren Ridloff Height
She is a woman of average stature. Ridloff stands at a height of 5 ft 6 in (Approx 1.68 m).
Lauren Ridloff Parents | Family
She was born to her hardworking parents in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Ridloff is the daughter of hearing parents, a Mexican-American father, Hugo who was a counselor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an African-American mother, who was an artist. Her parents that that their infant had a developmental delay, but by the time she was two years old, they learned that she was deaf.
Lauren Ridloff Husband
She married her loving husband Douglas Ridloff in 2006. Ridloff met Douglas at CSUN. The couple has two children both boys and both deaf. She worked as a teacher for nine years and left work to take care of her boys. Further, the family lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a neighborhood of New York, until they moved to Austin, Texas in 2022.
Lauren Ridloff Education
She studied in a Catholic school with hearing children and when she was 13 years old, she stopped using her voice so people would stop judging her intelligence based on her vocal intelligibility. Ridloff then enrolled at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, DC, where she was among deaf and hard-of-hearing peers.
Later, she attended California State University, Northridge, a university with a large deaf and hard-of-hearing student population, because of its National Center on Deafness. She pursued a major in English with an emphasis on creative writing, graduating in 2001. Ridloff later went to Hunter College in New York to study education with the goal of becoming a children’s author. She graduated with her Masters’s Degree in Education in 2005.
Lauren Ridloff Eternals | Makkari | In Eternals
She 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. The film makes Ridloff the first deaf superhero in the MCU and it revises the character to be a deaf woman of color.
Lauren Ridloff Movies and Tv Shows
She has appeared in the following movies and Tv shows:
- Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes as QIA agent in 2017
- Wonderstruck as Pearl, The Maid in 2017
- Children of a Lesser God as Sarah Norman in 2018
- The Walking Dead as Connie from 2018 to 2022
- Legacies as Dragon in 2018
- New Amsterdam as Margot in 2019
- Sound of Metal as Diane in 2019
- Eternals as Makkari in 2021
Lauren Ridloff Walking Dead
She was a fan of the TV series The Walking Dead, which premiered in 2010. Ridloff submitted an audition tape to be cast in the series. She was then cast as Connie and started her role in the show’s ninth season, which premiered in October 2018. Connie is part of a small group of roaming survivors which is led by Magna and is the first deaf character in The Walking Dead universe.
Lauren Ridloff Deaf
She was born deaf. Her parents thought their infant had a developmental delay, but by the time she was two years old, they learned that she was deaf. Her parents learned sign language with her and enrolled her in a Catholic school with hearing children. She was 8 years old when she saw Children of a Lesser God in theaters. She had her first deaf character in The Walking Dead universe.
Lauren Ridloff Nominations
She has been nominated for Drama League Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Tony Award for her role in the 2018 play Children of a Lesser God.
Lauren Ridloff Ethnicity
She was born to her hardworking parents in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. She holds American nationality and is of a Mexican-American father and an African-American mother.
Lauren Ridloff Legacies
She appeared in an episode of “Some People Just Want to Watch the World Burn” as Dragon in the fantasy drama television series, Legacies in 2018. The series contains 68 episodes in four seasons.
Lauren Ridloff Actress
Upon graduating with her Masters’s Degree in Education in 2005, she started teaching kindergarten and first grade at Public School 347 in Manhattan. Ridloff was also involved with deaf community theater and film work for friends. Moreover, she worked as a teacher for nine years before leaving the job to take care of her boys.
She is known for her roles in the TV series The Walking Dead and the film Eternals. She had a lead role in the Broadway play Children of a Lesser God and she was nominated for several awards, including a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Ridloff appeared in an episode of “Some People Just Want to Watch the World Burn” as Dragon in the fantasy drama television series, Legacies in 2018. In addition, Eternals, released in 2021, played the deaf superhero Makkari.
Lauren Ridloff Net Worth
She has earned a decent fortune working as an actress. Ridloff’s net worth is $2 Million.
Is Lauren Ridloff Deaf In Real Life
Rudloff’s parents knew she was deaf when she was two years old as they thot that their infant had a developmental delay. The parents earned sign language with her and enrolled her in a Catholic school with hearing children.
Who Is Lauren Ridloff
Ridloff is a popular deaf American actress. She is known for her roles in the TV series The Walking Dead and the film Eternals. She had a lead role in the Broadway play Children of a Lesser God and received several nominations including a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In addition, in Eternals, released in 2021, she played the deaf superhero Makkari.
How Old Is Lauren Ridloff
She is 45 years old born on April 6, 1978, in Chicago, Illinois, in the USA.
Ridloff’s Social Media Account
Twitter – @LaurenRidloff
Instagram – laurenridloff