Rebecca Rittenhouse
Rebecca Rittenhouse is an American actress. She has played Cody LeFever in the ABC prime time soap opera Blood & Oil and Dr. Anna Ziev in the Hulu romantic comedy series The Mindy Project. In 2022, she played the title character in the comedy series Maggie, which was cancelled after 13 episodes and purged from the Hulu streaming service in 2023.
Early life
Rittenhouse was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Pasadena. One of her first roles was in lower school, when she was cast as the Balloon Girl in her all-girls academy's production of the musical Gypsy. She continued performing in high school, Westridge, but never thought of it as a career. Rittenhouse attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied Romance languages. Afterwards, she decided to study acting at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City. She considered a career in medicine while trying to get roles.Career
Rittenhouse made her Off-Broadway debut in 2013 in Commons of Pensacola, at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In 2014, she made her television debut, appearing in the pilot episode of Showtime drama series, The Affair. Later in that year, Rittenhouse was cast in the series regular role as Brittany Dobler in the Fox comedy-drama, Red Band Society. The series was canceled after one season. Rittenhouse was one of the actresses briefly considered for the female lead role in the superhero film Deadpool, which went to Morena Baccarin.In 2015, Rittenhouse was cast as the female lead Cody LeFever in the ABC prime time soap opera, Blood & Oil. In late 2017, she was cast as Keri Allen in the season seven finale of the legal drama series Suits, which served as a backdoor pilot for a potential spin-off, Pearson. However, the role was recast with Bethany Joy Lenz for the series.
In 2018, she starred in "The Body", an episode of the anthology series Into the Dark. In 2019, she starred as interior decorator Ainsley Howard in the Hulu miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral, an update on the 1994 film of the same name. The miniseries was created by Mindy Kaling and Matt Warburton, with whom she had previously worked with on The Mindy Project.
Rittenhouse starred in the title role of the comedy series Maggie, released on Hulu in July 2022. The show was originally scheduled to debut on ABC, but was dropped to the Hulu streaming service, where it was canceled after 13 episodes and purged from Hulu and Disney+ in May 2023.