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Ridloff in 2018, photo by DFree /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Lauren Teruel
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 6, 1978
Ethnicity: * father – Mexican * mother – African-American
Lauren Ridloff, also credited by her birth name Lauren Teruel, is an American actress. She was Miss Deaf America from 2000 to 2002. Her roles include the films Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes , Wonderstruck (2017), Sound of Metal , Eternals , and The Magnificent Meyersons ; and the series The Walking Dead ; as well as Children of a Lesser God on stage.
Lauren is married to Douglas Ridloff, with whom she has two children. In this case, the surname Ridloff is Ashkenazi Jewish, and comes from Douglas’s Austrian Jewish ancestry.