Cristin Milioti
Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Tracy McConnell on the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" from 2013 to 2014, and for her work in theater productions such as "That Face", "Stunning", and the Tony Award-winning musical "Once", for which she won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Tony Award. She has also played Teresa Petrillo Belfort in the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", Betsy Solverson in the second season of "Fargo" (2015), Sarah in the 2020 film "Palm Springs" opposite Andy  Samberg, and Hazel in the HBO Max comedy series "Made for Love" (2021). Early life. Milioti was born on August 16, 1985, in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She is of Italian descent, and calls her family "Olive Garden Italian." In middle school, she found her love of acting at Long Lake Camp for the Arts in Long Lake, New York. She graduated in 2003 from Cherry Hill High School East, where she began performing in school plays. She took acting classes at New York University, but dropped out during her freshman year. Career. Milioti's first acting roles were bit  parts in national advertising campaign ads, notably one for the Ford Edge. She also appeared in television programs such as "The Sopranos" and films such as "Greetings from the Shore". Milioti is also known for her stage performances. In 2007, she appeared on Broadway as Alice Ashbrook in Helen Edmundson's award-winning adaptation of Jamila Gavin's novel "Coram Boy". She was the 2010 star of "That Face", receiving a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress for her work in "Stunning". In 2012, she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for her  work in "Once", a play in which she had performed from 2011 to 2013. Her "Once" performance, with fellow principal soloist Steve Kazee, earned the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. She also read aloud a short story for the 2011 "This American Life" episode "Adventure". In 2012, she appeared on several songs of Glen Hansard's debut album "Rhythm and Repose". In 2013, Milioti was cast in the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" as the titular Mother, appearing for the first time in the season eight finale titled "Something New", and was promoted to a  series regular for the show's ninth and final season. Milioti portrayed Jordan Belfort's (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) first wife, Teresa Petrillo, in the 2013 Martin Scorsese film "The Wolf of Wall Street". In February 2014, she was cast as Zelda, the female lead on NBC's comedy "A to Z" which premiered that October and aired for one season of 13 episodes. In 2015, she co-starred on the second season of "FX's Fargo" as Betsy Solverson, the cancer-stricken wife of state trooper Lou Solverson and mother of future deputy Molly Solverson. In 2017, Milioti appeared  in the fourth season of the sci-fi anthology show "Black Mirror" in the episode "USS Callister" as Nanette Cole, a newly employed game developer whose digital recreation becomes trapped in a virtual simulator game. In 2020, Milioti starred in the critically acclaimed sci-fi/comedy "Palm Springs", which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and on Hulu in July. In 2021, she starred in the HBO Max dark comedy series "Made for Love" as the entrapped wife of a tech billionaire whom she runs away from. References. Cristin Milioti biography and her role in Wolf of Wall  Street