Lauren Ridloff Biography, Age, Net Worth, Career, Relationship, Awards, And Nominees

Who is Lauren Ridloff

Lauren Ridloff is a great deaf American actress known for her role as Connie on the TV series The Walking Dead. In 2018, her breakthrough role was her lead performance in the Broadway play Children of a Lesser God, I will be writing about Lauren Ridloff Biography, Age, Career, Married life, Net worth, ‘Awards and movie stared.

Name	Lauren Ridloff
Date of Birth	6th of April 1978
Age	43 years old
Nationality	American
Profession	Actress
Net worth	$800,000

Lauren Ridloff Biography

Lauren Ridloff is a deaf American popular actress. She was born (April 6, 1978) in Chicago, Illinois in the United states. She was born deaf to hearing parents, a Mexican American dad, and an American mother. Ridloff grew up in the Chicago community area of Hyde park with her parents, her father was a counselor at the University of Illinois of Chicago, he was also a musician and her mother was an artist. Ridloff was two years old when her parents discovered she was deaf. Ridloff attended a catholic school where she learned sign language where she performed so well in school, following catholic school she was sent to the model secondary school for the deaf in Washington DC, she began exploring arts, starting with ceramics and she went on involving with drama, in a school production of the wiz, she played Dorothy, she was also in a cheerleading team and became one of the first deaf American cheerleaders to compete internationally. Ridloff went on to attend California state university, Northbridge. she majored in English, she focused on creative writing, while in college she joined a local deaf performing group and hip hop dancing, she graduated in May 2000, she began working for NCOD, she joined a program to improve post-secondary school education for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, later in the year she decided to compete in the National Association of the deaf Miss Deaf America competition, She was the second consecutive CSUN graduate to win the crown, and she was also the first competitor of either African-American or Mexican-American descent to win the pageant. Her activities in the competition included an ASL performance of the book The giving tree by Shel Silverstein. Ridloff furthermore studied at hunter college in new york. After graduating from CSUN, she decided to study education with the aim of becoming a children’s author, she got her Master’s Degree in 2005, she began her teaching career at public school 347 manhattans, New york where she taught kindergarten and first grade.

Lauren Ridloff Married Life

Ridloff got married to Douglas Ridloff in 2006, she is blessed with two children, both boys and are both deaf, she quit her teaching job to look after her kids. the family lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a neighborhood of New York, the United states.

Lauren Ridloff Career

Ridloff started her acting career in 2017, she joined the production of the 2017 film wonderstruck as a consultant and was ultimately cast in a minor role, subsequently, she was starred in the lyric video for the song

“Love Me Now” by John legend.

In 2018, her breakthrough role was her lead performance in the Broadway play Children of a Lesser God, for which she was nominated several awards, Ridloff was hired by director Kenny Leon to tutor him in American sign language, when he began producing a revival of the 1980 play “children of a lesser God” he asked her to substitute at a read through early on, and based on her performance, he offered her the role.

Ridloff was a fan of the TV series the walking dead and she submitted an audition tape to be cast in the series, she was cast Connie and started her role in the ninth season of the series, which premiered in 2018.

In July 2019, Ridloff was cast in the 2021 marvel cinematic universe superhero film Eternals as the superhero Makkari, who in the comics is a hearing and a white man. As part of the director’s approach to broaden casting representation, the casting of Ridloff revises the character to be a deaf woman of color. The casting makes Ridloff the first deaf superhero in the MCU.

Lauren Ridloff Awards and Nominees

In 2020, Ridloff received the SAG-AFTRA Harold Russell Award at the 41st Media Access Awards. After that, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts selected Ridloff as a 2020 Breakthrough performer alongside 33 other talents in film, television, and games, she was nominated at 72nd Tony awards for best actress, also for Drama league award for distinguished performance, also nominated at outer critics circle award for the outstanding actress.