Bio
Debra Jo Rupp is an American actress best known for her role as Kitty Forman in the television sitcom That '70s Show, from 1998-2006.
She also starred as Vicky in the sitcom Better with You, from 2010-2011.
Other notable TV roles for Rupp include Seinfeld's booking agent, Katie, and Phoebe's sister-in-law on Friends. Sally Field directed her in HBO's acclaimed From the Earth to the Moon, and she was listed as crowd member when she actually got to go to the 2004 World Series and watch her Red Sox win.
Rupp was seen in the feature film She's Out of My League, playing Jay Baruchel's mom, Mrs. Kettner.
Other film credits include Jackson, the award-winning short The Act, Kickin' it Old Skool with Jamie Kennedy, Clockwatchers with Toni Collette and Parker Posey, Spymate, Lucky Thirteen with Lauren Graham, Sgt. Bilko with Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd, and her first film ever, Big, with Tom Hanks.
In addition her voice can be heard in the Emmy-winning Teacher's Pet with Nathan Lane (both cartoon and feature film), Garfield, Air Buddies and in various other projects with tiny animals.
Since 2006 Rupp has lived on the east coast, getting back into her theatre roots which include Broadway productions of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Kathleen Turner and Charles Durning, Frankie and Johnnie in the Clair de Lune and A Girl's Guide to Chaos.
She also appeared Off Broadway in Butcher of Baraboo, directed by Judith Ivey, and in several regional productions at Williamstown, Barrington Stage and Berkshire Theater Festival.