Krysten Ritter

After moving to Brooklyn, she settled in Los Angeles in 2007 for work convenience. She presently continues to reside at her Los Angeles Apartment.

A staunch animal lover, Krysten supports PETA. She has also promoted animal rights for the organisation in an ad campaign in 2013. In the ad she warns dog owners of the consequences of leaving their dogs in a closed car in summer.

Her love for music helped her weave a bond with record producer, guitarist and singer, Adam Granduciel. The two have been in a relationship since 2014. Adam isn’t Krysten’s first boyfriend; she has dated Brian Geraghty and Ivan Sergei in the past.

She was born on 16th December, 1981 at Bloomsburg in Pennsylvania to Kathi Taylor and Gary Ritter. Krysten grew up on a beef farm near Shickshinny.

After her parents separated, her father moved to Benton and she lived with her mother, stepfather, sister and a pet dog named Mikey.

Since childhood she was an animal lover. Thus, the years she spent in the farm as a child were filled with joy. Her stepfather didn’t rear horses as he considered them hay burners; instead he reared plenty of cows.

In fact, she even kept a baby calf as a pet and named it Jake. She used to take naps and snuggle it, eventually it grew too big to keep indoors and was moved to the pasture. Nevertheless, she used to visit it every day and ride it.

She attended ‘Northwest Area High School’. Around the final years of her education, she began working as a model. Krysten completed high school in 2000, and eventually decided to concentrate only on her career.

At the age of fifteen, she was spotted at the Wyoming Valley Mall by a modelling agent. She was then tall and skinny, the agent offered her a consignment and she accepted it.

She continued with high school back home, and took up modelling often during holidays and weekends at Philadelphia, New York City.

In the initial years of her modelling career she worked with the ‘Elite Model Management’ agency, later gaining access into ‘Wilhelmina Models’.

After the completion of her education, she moved to New York City. She was eighteen by then and managed to carve an international modelling career on television and in print advertisements.

She slowly became a mega model and posed for magazines and catalogues. She travelled around the world to Paris, Milan and Tokyo to walk the ramp for big brands and famous designers.

The Wilhelmina Model’s agency assigned her to an audition for a ‘Dr. Pepper’ television commercial. At the audition she was peppy and could naturally project her skills in acting. Thus, she was signed for the advertisement.

She played many credited and non-credited roles in films and television until she landed a role as a history student in the 2003 film ‘Mona Lisa Smile’. The following year she landed a role on the TV series ‘One Life to Live’ where she played a recurring character ‘Kay’ over four episodes.

She took to theatre in 2006, and acted in Rajiv Joseph’s play ‘All This intimacy’ at the Second Stage Theatre. This helped perk her acting skills and soon she guest starred as Lucy in the comedy-drama ‘Gilmore Girls’.

In 2008 she landed herself a meatier role in Anne Fletcher’s comedy film ’27 Dresses’ as Gina, the Goth. She also guest starred in ‘What happens in Vegas’ and ‘The Last International Playboy’ the same year.

In 2009, she played the main cast and best friend of the lead character in the rom-com ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’. She guest starred in the TV series ‘Gossip Girl’ in the episode ‘Valley Girls’.