Debra Jo Rupp (born February 24, 1951) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her role as Kitty Forman on the long-running Fox sitcom That '70s Show.
Rupp was born in Glendale, California, the daughter of Margaret (née Williams). She has two sisters. She was raised in Massachusetts, and graduated from Masconomet Regional High School in Boxford, Massachusetts, in 1970. She went on to attend the University of Rochester i...
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Debra Jo Rupp (born February 24, 1951) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her role as Kitty Forman on the long-running Fox sitcom That '70s Show.
Rupp was born in Glendale, California, the daughter of Margaret (née Williams). She has two sisters. She was raised in Massachusetts, and graduated from Masconomet Regional High School in Boxford, Massachusetts, in 1970. She went on to attend the University of Rochester in New York state, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1974.
Rupp left her home state of Massachusetts in 1979 to pursue an acting career in New York City. She frequently performed on stage and appeared in commercials before winning her first television role in 1980 as Sheila, a topless dancer, on the daytime drama All My Children. Earlier in the same year, Rupp played Helen, the wife of a cheating husband, in Sharon Tipsword's one-act comedy Second Verse, which was produced as part of a play festival at New York's Nat Horne Theater. Another...
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