Largo Woodruff

Largo Woodruff was born July 18, 1955[2] in New Jersey to Wallace and Maxine Woodruff, the second of three children.[1] She has one elder sister, Allegro, a writer, and a younger brother, Lento, a carpenter and offshore oil rigger.[1] Woodruff's father was a professional orchestra musician, and her parents named her and her brothers after musical tempos, with her name, Largo, meaning a wide or broadly slow tempo.[1]

Woodruff was raised in the Panama Canal Zone from age 2.[1] As a child, she studied various dance as well as cello and guitar.[1] At age 18, she relocated to New York City with the hopes of becoming an actress, and enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.[1]

After relocating to New York, Woodruff was hired as a dancer in an off-Broadway theatrical production,[3] and also began acting in commercials, appearing in television advertisements for A&W Root Beer, Kraft Foods, and Ruffles.[1] She had minor bit parts in Fingers (1978) and Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980). Also in 1980, she appeared in an ABC Afterschool Special entitled "Stoned."[1] Her first major feature film role was as Liz Duncan in Tobe Hooper's slasher film The Funhouse (1981), filmed in Miami.[1] She also appeared in the controversial television drama film The Choice (1981) opposite Susan Clark and Mitchell Ryan, which followed a young woman who undergoes an abortion.[4][5] The same year, she had a leading role in the television film Bill, a biopic about Bill Sackter starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid.[6] She reprised her role for the film's sequel, Bill: On His Own (1983).

In 1986, Woodruff appeared in a supporting role in the rape and revenge film The Ladies Club, and in 1990 had a role in Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen. She subsequently appeared in the television film Bare Essentials (1991) and Taking the Heat (1993). Woodruff had a minor role in the 1999 drama film My Last Love, and subsequently appeared in a bit part in the horror film Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003).