Biography

Ruth Cox was born in northern California on February 6,1953 to a teacher and a forest ranger and is a fifth-generation Californian. Her early performing ambitions leaned toward the stage: she started acting at age 10 in school plays and with a number of theater companies in her hometown of Sacramento. She began her formal acting studies in high school at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. She enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts in the early 1970s.

After graduating from Cal Arts (where classmates included Paul Reubens, Ed Harris, and David Hasselhoff), Ruth worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and performed in Los Angeles with the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings. She soon broke into television stardom with a steady stream of guest-starring roles in such series as "The Hardy Boys/ Nancy Drew Mysteries," "Soap," "Knots Landing," "The Runaways," and "Happy Days."

In the 1980's Ruth decided to pursue a graduate degree in psychology. She received her Ph.D. and married Milton Chen in 1985. In 1986 they were blessed with a daughter, Maggie. Ruth has remained in San Francisco where she teaches at SF State and continues to perform. She also enjoys writing and creating botanical art, and works actively with SAG's BookPals program in the public schools.
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Her mother Gloria Cox was the founder of " Puppets For Peace". An initiative to give puppets to children in war-torn countries because they believe it is the right of every child to have the opportunity to play, especially during times of extreme duress, and that making this a priority is good for all of us.

The Cox family donated a very large shipment of puppets on behalf of their Mom, Gloria Cox, who was a teacher and founder of " Puppets For Peace". Some of those puppets are on their way to the Syrian refugee children by way of Budapest-Bamako SOS Refugee, an NGO that dispenses "Backpacks of hope" to kids who just have arrived on boats from Greece, losing many of their belongings on the way.

One daughter Maggie Chen.

Her mother Gloria Cox taught in the Rio Linda District for 40 years and served as librarian. She also performed as a puppeteer, using her love of literacy to entertain children throughout the Sacramento area. Gloria played tennis at Del Norte and golf at Sierra View in Roseville.