Ruth Rudnick

Ruth Rudnick

Ruth Rudnick, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and an alumni of The Second City Theater in Chicago, is an actress, writer and improviser. Her career began in Boston at WZOU FM where she laughed for a living on the air as “the girl” on the Boston Morning Zoo, doing impressions, and making up the traffic reports. Next came Chicago where she co-wrote and performed in over fifteen reviews with other alumni that included Jane Morris, Steven Colbert and Steve Carell. Ruth can be seen as Nurse Wanda in the film While You Were Sleeping and since moving to Los Angeles has been the lead of a network pilot (you’ve never seen it) and has guest starred on numerous television shows including Curb Your Enthusiasm and NCIS. She is a founding member of the All Girl Review and is currently near completion of her first book- a childhood memoir. Ruth is the founder of Lead With Your Art an organization dedicated to fostering and making available, her love of improvisation and the arts to teenagers and young adults.

Movies for Ruth Rudnick...

Title: NCIS
Character: Gina Goodwin
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: TV
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
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Title: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Character: Carol Weiner
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: TV
The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.
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Title: Spin City
Character: Manager
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
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While You Were Sleeping
Title: While You Were Sleeping
Character: Wanda
Released: April 21, 1995
Type: Movie
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.