Debra Jo Rupp Biography (2)
Rupp was raised in Massachusetts, graduating from Masconomet Regional High School in Topsfield, Massachusetts in 1970. She went on to attend the University of Rochester in New York state, graduating in 1974.
Her first acting role was Sheila, a topless dancer at a strip club where the character Erica Kane worked briefly on All My Children, in 1980. She started her acting career full-time in the late 1980s, guest-starring on such shows as Kate & Allie and Blossom. She moved on to a bigger role on the television series Davis Rules, and acted on several episodes of Friends, as Alice Knight, a home economics teacher who fell in love with Phoebe Buffay's brother. It was these performances on Friends that earned her notice among the That '70s Show casting department.
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