<Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Actress, singer </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 2006--present </Td> </Tr> <P> Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress and vocalist . She has worked in Broadway theatre productions such as That Face, Stunning, and the Tony Award - winning musical Once . She also played the titular Mother on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother from 2013 to 2014, Teresa Petrillo Belfort in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, and Betsy Solverson in the second season of Fargo (2015). She has won a Grammy Award and has been nominated for a Tony Award . </P> <P> Milioti was born on August 16, 1985 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey . She is of Italian descent, and calls her family "Olive Garden Italian". In middle school, she found her love of acting at Long Lake Camp for the Arts in New York City . She attended Cherry Hill High School East, graduating in 2003 . She took acting classes at New York University, but dropped out during her freshman year . However, she is listed in the university's advertising . </P>

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