Allison Tolman

Personal context

Summary

Allison Tolman is an American actor known for Fargo, Good Girls, and St. Denis Medical. Her roles often include women in professional or family settings, and she has spoken publicly about how television represents women of different body sizes. In a 2015 interview, she called for more women and feminists in writing, producing, and showrunning roles and for television to show a more diverse range of men and women. In 2022, she urged writers and showrunners to remove weight-based jokes from scripts. No public partisan campaigning or advocacy-group affiliations are on record.