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My Take
Cristin Milioti is my favorite kind of actor: one who built her foundation on stage, won a Grammy for musical theater, and then translated that discipline to the screen. Stepping in as the long-awaited Mother on How I Met Your Mother was a nearly impossible assignment — years of audience expectation compressed onto one performer — and she made it feel inevitable. Then she pivoted to Sofia Falcone in The Penguin, an Emmy-winning turn of controlled menace that shares almost no DNA with her earlier warmth. That range is not luck; it is craft accumulated patiently, and I expect she will keep surprising us for decades.
Overview
Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress and musician. She is known for playing The Mother, Tracy McConnell, in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2013 to 2014, and Sofia Falcone in the HBO crime drama series The Penguin (2024). The latter earned her a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, along with a nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Cristin Milioti
- Name (Japanese)
- クリスティン・ミリオティ
- Reading
- くりすてぃん・みりおてぃ
- Born
- August 16, 1985 (age 40)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Ox
- Origin
- Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor / musician
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Cherry Hill High School East
- University
- New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Awards & achievements
- 2012 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Stage actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.