Debra Jo Rupp Is Alive, Healthy, And Still Acting

The 73-year-old actress recently played Mrs. Hart in Marvel’s miniseries, “Agatha All Along.”

Key Takeaways

• Debra Jo Rupp is known for her various television roles.
• She got her start in acting as a theatre and commercial actress.
• Recently, she has started acting in various roles in the MCU.

Debra Jo Rupp, the American actress best known for her role as Kitty Forman in the FOX comedy series “That ’70s Show,” is still alive and healthy.

“Friends” fans will recognize her as Alice Knight, the home economics teacher who falls in love with and marries Phoebe Buffay’s half-brother, Frank Jr.

Recently, she played the role of Mrs. Hart in the Marvel miniseries, “Agatha All Along.”

Recent concern about her health stems from the fact that her character in the show passed away.

As fans of the show paid tribute to the fictional character, some confusion arose from other users who mistook the tribute as being for Debra Jo instead of her character.

thinking about her 🖤 pic.twitter.com/5s6eagngnk

— Jinkx Monsoon (@JinkxMonsoon) September 27, 2024

X user ReelFeelsPod replied to the above post,

However, Debra Jo Rupp is doing just fine, and there is no indication that she is anything less than perfectly healthy.

Even at 73, Debra Jo Rupp has an active acting career. Her most recent works are “The ’90s Show,” “Teacher’s Pet,” and “WandaVision.”

MS. HART IS SO FUCKING FUNNY LIKE DEBRA JO RUPP THE COMEDIAN YOU ARE! #AgathaAllAlong pic.twitter.com/jhMDGKd9hn

— ໊ (@wandasattorney) September 19, 2024

Debra Jo was born on February 24, 1951, in Glendale, California, to her parents, Margaret A. Williams Rupp and John E. Rupp Jr.

She grew up with her siblings, Robin Lee Rupp and Rebecca Louise Rupp, in Boxford, Massachusetts.

She attended Masconomet Regional High School and graduated in 1969.

Debra left her hometown in 1979 and moved to New York to pursue an acting career.

Her earlier acting gigs were small stage performances and commercials before she landed a television role as Sheila, a dancer on the soap opera “All My Children.“

She also performed extensively in theater during her earlier years, one of her first theater works being Sharon Tipsword’s one-act comedy “Second Verse.”

Despite her theatre successes, her television career took off in the late 1990s with her role in the long-running FOX comedy series “That ’70s Show.“

Her performance as Kitty Forman, the over-protective mother of Laurie and Eric (played by Lisa Robin Kelly and Topher Grace), made her a household name.

She has also played other memorable television characters, such as Phoebe’s sister-in-law, Alice, in “Friends“; Jerry’s booking agent, Katie, in “Seinfeld“; and more recently, Beth and Randall’s social worker, Linda, in “This is Us“; and Abby’s mother, Janice Phillips, in “The Ranch.”

In Case You Didn’t Know

• Debra Jo revealed that her celebrity crush growing up was Richard Thomas’ character, John-Boy, from The Waltons.

• Her guilty pleasure reality TV shows are any of the Housewives series and “The Challenge” on MTV.

• She reprised her role as Kitty Foreman in the 2023 sequel “That ’90s Show.”