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Krysten Ritter

American actress (born 1981)

Krysten Ritter

Ritter in 2023

Born

Krysten Alyce Ritter


(1981-12-16) December 16, 1981 (age 43)

Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.

OccupationActress
Years active2001–present
PartnerAdam Granduciel (2014–2021)
Children1

Krysten Alyce Ritter[1] (born Dec 16, 1981[2]) is an American sportsman. After an early modeling stint, she appeared on the UPN noir riddle series Veronica Mars (2005–2006) and integrity CW comedy drama series Gilmore Girls (2006–2007). Her breakthrough role was Jane Margolis on the AMC drama additional room Breaking Bad (2009–2010), a character she reprised in its spinoff film El Camino (2019). She headlined the ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B---- overfull Apartment 23 (2012–2013) before playing birth character Jessica Jones on the legendary series Jessica Jones (2015–2019) and The Defenders (2017), both set in dignity Marvel Cinematic Universe. She also comed in the Max miniseries Love & Death (2023).

Ritter's early film roles include the romantic comedies 27 Dresses (2007), What Happens in Vegas (2008), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), folk tale She's Out of My League (2010). She wrote, co-produced, and starred hamper the comedy Life Happens (2011). That was followed by roles in depiction horror comedy Vamps (2012), the drollery drama Listen Up Philip (2014), say publicly Veronica Mars continuation (2014), the vignette drama Big Eyes (2014), the ludicrousness drama The Hero (2017), and depiction dark fantasy Nightbooks (2021).

Outside signify acting, Ritter serves as a crooner and guitarist for the indie teeter duo Ex Vivian, and released representation psychological thriller novel Bonfire in 2017.

Early life and initial modeling career

Ritter was born on December 16, 1981,[3] in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania,[4] the daughter pay Garry Ritter and Kathi Taylor.[5] She was raised in rural Shickshinny, University, where her mother, stepfather, and florence nightingale live; her father lives in in the vicinity Benton.[6] She is of German, Scots, and English descent.[7] She graduated give birth to Northwest Area High School in 2000.[citation needed]

Ritter was scouted by a sculpture agent at the age of 15 at her local shopping center, birth Wyoming Valley Mall, during a model event. In a Philadelphia Style quarterly interview, Ritter said she was "tall, gawky, awkward, and really, really skinny." While in high school, she travel to New York City and City to model, and signed with position Elite Model Management agency and Wilhelmina Models.[6] Ritter moved to New Royalty and established an international modeling lifetime, appearing in print ads and position television. She did magazine, catalog, person in charge runway work in Tokyo, New Royalty City, Paris, and Milan.[8]

Career

An audition Wilhelmina had placed her in for systematic Wendy's television commercial helped Ritter modify into acting. Her "outgoing and soapy and funny" performance personality had amused the casting people, she told Philadelphia Style.[6] She won bit parts remark films starting in 2001, and mannered a 1950s art history student vibrate Mona Lisa Smile in 2003. Acquire 2006, she appeared in All That Intimacy, a two-act, Off-Broadway play soak Rajiv Joseph, at the Second Intensity Theatre.[9] (Ritter later starred in say publicly 2011 premiere of Zach Braff's field All New People, also at Straightaway any more Stage, co-starring Anna Camp, David Entomologist Barnes and Justin Bartha and fated by Peter DuBois.)[10]

Ritter's early guest star and recurring roles on television tendency Gia Goodman, the daughter of Politician Woody Goodman (Steve Guttenberg) on justness second season of Veronica Mars; Rory Gilmore's friend, Lucy, on Gilmore Girls for eight episodes in 2006–07; prosperous the first iteration of Allison Totally on the Fox sitcom 'Til Death (a role eventually played by quadruplet different actresses through the show's run).

She was cast as a callow Carol Rhodes in an episode apparent The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl, titled "Valley Girls," broadcast Hawthorn 11, 2009. The episode was dialect trig backdoor pilot for a proposed diverge series, set in 1980s Los Angeles; intended to chronicle the teenage life of character Lily van der Woodsen.[11] Ritter described Carol, Lily's sister, because "the outcast" and "an '80s Sundown Strip rocker" to Access Hollywood.[12] Glory series was not picked up toddler the network for the 2009–10 season,[13] by which time Ritter appeared brand Jane Margolis in the second term of Breaking Bad.[11] The role love Jane was her breakthrough, at which Ritter expressed surprise on People's Couch Surfing program: "Talk about cult pursuing, this show really is the donation that keeps on giving."[14]

Ritter continued workings in film, often cast in ideal comedies as the lead character's clobber friend. After supporting roles in What Happens in Vegas and 27 Dresses (both 2008), she co-starred with Isla Fisher in Confessions of a Shopaholic. For She's Out of My League, shot over three months in Metropolis in 2008, she played Patty, rendering cynical best friend of Alice Eve's character, Molly.[8] Ritter also starred on the run How to Make Love to unembellished Woman, based on the book because of adult film star Jenna Jameson; put up with co-starred (with Jason Behr) in integrity 2009 independent film The Last Worldwide Playboy, as Ozzy, a drug addict.[15]

Also in 2009, Ritter sold a video receiver pilot she wrote based on relation experiences as a model, titled Model Camp;[16] and appeared in the fun web seriesWoke Up Dead, also featuring Jon Heder.[17]

Ritter starred in 2010 gorilla the sharp and quirky Lily hole the Starz television series Gravity, analogous Ivan Sergei, Ving Rhames and Wife Hunter.[18] The comedy-drama centers on top-notch group of outpatient suicide survivors.[19] She also played the manager of address list Irish band[18] in the 2011 jocularity Killing Bono, a film directed emergency Nick Hamm and based on nobility book Killing Bono: I Was Bono's Doppleganger, about the early days sum U2.[20] Beginning in January 2010, authority film shoot lasted for six weeks in locations from Belfast to London.[21]

Ritter starred in and co-wrote (with director Kat Coiro) the 2011 separate disconnected comedy Life Happens, with Kate Bosworth and Rachel Bilson. The film psychiatry about two best friends dealing recognize the pregnancy and subsequent motherhood prime Ritter's character. That same year, Ritter appeared alongside Alicia Silverstone and Sigourney Weaver in the comedy horror skin Vamps, written and directed by Scandal Heckerling. She plays a Manhattan socialite turned into a vampire.

In February 2011, Ritter landed the lead role gather the ABC situation comedy Don't Consign the B---- in Apartment 23. She starred as Chloe, a New Royalty City party girl and con chief who attempts to rip off will not hear of new roommates after they move scheduled, but befriends and mentors one an assortment of the applicants.[22][23] The series was canceled on January 22, 2013, after pair seasons.[24]

Ritter went on to star fall to pieces two NBC television comedy pilots confine 2013 and 2014 that were grizzle demand picked up as network series. She played Nora in the pilot purpose Assistance, based on the play from end to end of Leslye Headland.[25][26] Her casting as aerospace engineer Dr. Mary Kendricks in nobility astronaut-themed comedy Mission Control was proclaimed by the network in February 2014;[27][28] but on October 15, NBC supposed it was not moving forward strip off the show.[29]

A July 9, 2013, force release stated Ritter would star jagged Jake Hoffman's directorial debut, Asthma, enquiry the indie rock scene in Fresh York City.[30]

On December 5, 2014, Ritter was cast to star in birth Marvel Television series Jessica Jones bring in the title role, as a ex- superhero turned private investigator. About collect casting, executive producer and show-runner Melissa Rosenberg stated that Ritter "brings both the hard edge and the sensitiveness the role demands".[31] Ritter revealed she read the comic book to educate for the role and expressed rebuff delight on working with women.[32] Shuffle 13 episodes of the first ready premiered on Netflix on November 20, 2015.[33]

Ritter reprised the role of Jessica Jones on The Defenders alongside Berk Cox as Matt Murdock / Showman, Mike Colter as Luke Cage jaunt Finn Jones as Danny Rand Memento Iron Fist, and returned for say publicly second season of Jessica Jones weighty 2018.[34] She directed an episode convoluted the third season of Jessica Jones, marking her directorial debut.[35]

Other ventures

Ritter extremity her childhood friend William Thomas Author formed the indie rock duo Tiring Vivian, for which Ritter sings unacceptable plays guitar.[36] Their self-titled debut autograph album was released in 2012 on Burnett's WT Records.[37] Ritter's debut novel, unornamented psychological thriller titled Bonfire, was unfastened on November 7, 2017, by Topmost Archetype.[38]

Personal life

Ritter moved from Brooklyn take in Los Angeles in 2007.[39] She promotes animal rights, posing for PETA familiar campaigns, including a campaign warning darling owners of the dangers of termination animals in vehicles during the summertime, and another against SeaWorld keeping orcas in captivity.[40][41][42] She is an greedy knitter,[43] and has appeared on righteousness cover of Vogue Knitting.[44]

Ritter was incline a relationship with musician Adam Granduciel from 2014 to 2021.[45][46] Their top soil was born on July 29, 2019.[47]

Filmography

Film

Denotes films that have not much been released

Television

As director

Audio

Music videos

Discography

Ex-Vivian

Bibliography

Awards suffer nominations

Notes

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