Not many actresses can say they have fought through a video game franchise, survived a horror franchise, and then landed a rom-com lead, but Adeline Rudolph has checked all three boxes before turning 32. Her German and Korean roots, paired with a childhood in Hong Kong alongside her twin sister Caroline, gave her a background that reads like a passport stamped across three continents. Off-screen, she is engaged to fellow actor Tommy Martinez after six years together, and her career has followed the same restless, ever-expanding path as her personal life. With Mortal Kombat II and her rom-com debut both putting her in front of a much bigger audience, here is everything worth knowing about her life, family, relationship, and finances.
| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Adeline Rudolph |
| Born | February 10, 1995, Hong Kong |
| Ethnicity | German and Korean |
| Height | 5 feet 8 and a half inches (1.74 m) |
| Partner | Tommy Martinez (engaged since December 2024) |
| Children | None |
| Twin sister | Caroline Rudolph |
| Known for | Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat II |
| Net worth | Estimated $500,000 to $1.5 million (2026) |
Biography
Adeline Rudolph was born on February 10, 1995, in what was then British Hong Kong. Her father is German, and her mother is Korean, though neither has been publicly named, and that mixed heritage became a defining part of her identity growing up in a former British colony where she was neither fully local nor fully foreign. She has a twin sister, Caroline Rudolph, who works as an artist and regularly appears alongside Adeline on social media.
Her path into entertainment started almost by accident. A commercial agent stopped her in a Hong Kong mall when she was 13 or 14 years old, and her parents only agreed to let her take the job after coming along to vet it themselves. She picked up occasional commercial work and school fashion shows after that, but for years she treated it purely as fun rather than a career plan, and she once considered becoming a lawyer or a journalist before acting ever entered the picture.
Rudolph attended the German Swiss International School in Hong Kong before moving to the United Kingdom for university. She studied Political Science at University College London and graduated in 2017, a degree that has little to do with her current career but gave her the base to build an adult life in Europe before she ever set foot on a film set. She holds both British and German citizenship, a direct result of her mixed parentage and her years of schooling in both systems. She stands 5 feet 8 and a half inches tall, or about 1.74 meters.
Modeling came first. While still at UCL, Rudolph signed with Next Model Management and went on to work with PMA in Hamburg and Primo in Hong Kong, appearing in campaigns for Marie Claire Beauty and Elle Beauty across European, Hong Kong, and Korean markets. That run built the visibility that eventually pulled her toward acting once she left university.
Career
Rudolph’s move into acting happened almost immediately after she left university. She relocated to the United States on a modeling visa sponsored by Next Model Management, and two months after arriving, she walked into an acting class on a whim and fell in love with it. A classmate from that class, Michael Libowitz, introduced her to an agent who signed her, and within weeks she was going out on her first auditions.
Horror was never new territory for her. In an interview with Timid Magazine, Rudolph said she was a horror fan long before she started booking horror and supernatural roles, naming Saw and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre among her favorites alongside psychological thrillers like Shutter Island and Inception, and she joked about dragging her best friend along to horror movies whether her friend wanted to go or not. That taste lines up closely with the genre-heavy career she has built since.
In an interview on Natalie Linez’s Ground Up podcast, Rudolph said her audition for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which became her acting debut in 2018, was also her first ever in-room audition. Casting director David Rapaport pushed to get her seen even though she had no headshots or demo reel to speak of, and she booked the role, a debut that launched her run as Agatha across all four parts of the show through 2020, totaling 36 episodes. The same year the show ended, she was cast in the title role of a planned Tomie adaptation for the streaming service Quibi, but Quibi collapsed within months of launch, and the project stalled, later resurfacing only as a possibility that has yet to be confirmed. Rudolph has often credited her Sabrina co-star Kiernan Shipka, the show’s lead, with shaping how she treats castmates now that she carries bigger productions herself, telling Timid Magazine that watching Shipka’s example taught her that being the top-billed name on a call sheet does not change how you should treat everyone else on set.
In 2021, she joined the fifth season of The CW’s Riverdale as Minerva Marble in a recurring capacity, before landing a main role as Billie Wesker in Netflix’s Resident Evil adaptation in 2022. That same year, she signed on for the horror thriller Creepers.
Between Resident Evil and her next big roles, Rudolph went through a stretch that tested her. She wrapped Resident Evil in 2021 and then spent roughly ten months in 2022 without booking a single job, a period she has described as leaving her questioning whether she was even a good actor. In the same Ground Up podcast interview, she said the low point came around December 2022, when she was talking down on herself so much that her boyfriend, Tommy Martinez, told her she needed to find something for herself outside of acting. She made it her New Year’s resolution for 2023 to take up Taekwondo, purely for fun, and has said the belt system gave her small, steady goals to work toward while she waited for the next job. She had only reached her yellow or orange belt, with no idea Mortal Kombat II was even on the horizon, when the role came through. In an interview with Timid Magazine, Rudolph said the Taekwondo background only carried her so far once training actually began, since Kitana’s fighting style reads as fluid and almost dance-adjacent, so the team leaned instead on wushu, kung fu, and tai chi to build her movement, drilling daily with stunt coordinator Malay Kim for a month before filming and staying late after shooting days to keep training. Even so, the discipline and physical baseline she had already built in Taekwondo helped her take on that much heavier load, and she has called 2023 one of her favorite working years as a result.
Her role in Hellboy: The Crooked Man came together in an unusual way. She had a general meeting with production company Millennium a couple of years earlier that did not lead anywhere at the time, but when the original casting for the film fell through, her team asked for her to be reconsidered, and she landed a same-day offer after a session with the director. The film shot in Bulgaria in 2023, and she followed it later that year with her guest role as Jordana in the series Laid.
Landing Kitana in Mortal Kombat II took patience. She submitted a self-tape, was asked to retape it with adjustments, then had a director session that ran more than an hour while she was already in Bulgaria filming Hellboy: The Crooked Man. She heard nothing for so long that she assumed the role had gone to someone else, and when it finally came through, she got to share the screen with Tati Gabrielle, who played her on-screen sister on Sabrina and takes on the role of Jade in the sequel. The wider cast includes Damon Herriman as the sorcerer Quan Chi, plus returning franchise names like Ludi Lin, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada.
2026 has turned into her biggest year yet. She stars as Diane in the Lionsgate horror film Do Not Enter, and she plays Kitana opposite Karl Urban and Jessica McNamee in New Line’s Mortal Kombat II, a role that puts her at the center of one of the year’s larger studio releases. She is also set to lead the psychological thriller Perfect Girl alongside Arden Cho and K-pop idol Somi, playing a K-pop trainee in a story described as Scream meeting Black Swan, and she has signed on as series regular Renee in Neagley, a Reacher spinoff for Prime Video.
Rudolph’s slate got even bigger in June 2026, when Deadline confirmed she had joined Netflix’s reboot of the 2004 rom-com 13 Going on 30, starring alongside Emily Bader and Logan Lerman with Jennifer Garner returning as an executive producer. Her role and the updated plot are being kept under wraps, but the casting marks her first rom-com, a genre she had specifically named as a goal in an earlier interview with Vogue Hong Kong. She reacted to the news on Instagram, writing that “13 year old me is screaming.”
One quirk of her career so far is worth noting, at least until recently. Despite living and working in the United States since 2017 and receiving her green card around 2023, she had never actually filmed a project on US soil, with Sabrina, Riverdale, and Mortal Kombat II all shooting in Vancouver, Resident Evil in Cape Town, and Hellboy: The Crooked Man in Bulgaria. That streak ended with 13 Going on 30, which began filming in Los Angeles in late June 2026, making it her first production shot in the United States.
Personal Life
Rudolph has been in a relationship with Tommy Martinez since 2018. Martinez works both sides of the camera, acting in shows like Riverdale, Good Trouble, and Laid while also working as a first assistant director, a job in which he has worked alongside major stars. The two met through overlapping circles in young adult television and kept much of the relationship private in its early years, though they were frequently photographed together on trips and at premieres. On December 26, 2024, after celebrating their sixth anniversary together, Martinez proposed to Rudolph atop the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, and both shared the news on Instagram shortly after. The couple is engaged, not yet married, and no wedding date has been made public.
The two do not have children. Outside of Martinez, Rudolph remains close with her twin sister Caroline, and the pair have grown up together, attended the same university, and continued showing up in each other’s social media posts well into adulthood. She has also built something of a reputation for warmth toward the press covering her; in a profile for Timid Magazine, writer Daniel Anderson recalled her going out of her way to make him feel included at an industry event early in his career, a small gesture he said had stuck with him since. Rudolph speaks English and German fluently from her upbringing, and has some Korean from her mother’s side, though she has described her own Korean as far from fluent. She has said in past interviews that her multicultural background shapes how she approaches the characters she plays.
Net Worth
A more grounded estimate of her net worth has to be built from what she has actually earned: a 36-episode main role on Sabrina, a recurring arc on Riverdale, a main role on Resident Evil, guest and supporting work on Laid and Hellboy: The Crooked Man, a lead role in a Lionsgate horror release, and now a part in a major studio franchise film in Mortal Kombat II, on top of years of modeling income from international campaigns before she ever booked an acting job.
Taken together, that body of work points to a net worth realistically somewhere between $500,000 and $1.5 million as of 2026. That figure is likely to climb further once Mortal Kombat II box office numbers settle and Perfect Girl and Neagley move into release, both of which represent a clear step up from the recurring television work that built her career so far.
Frequently Asked Questions
What ethnicity is Adeline Rudolph?
She is of German and Korean descent, born and raised in Hong Kong to a German father and a Korean mother.
Does Adeline Rudolph have a twin?
Yes. Her twin sister is named Caroline Rudolph, and the two have appeared together on social media for years.
Does Adeline Rudolph speak Korean?
She speaks some Korean, but not fluently. She’s fluent in English and German, and in an interview with Timid Magazine she said working on the mostly Korean production of Perfect Girl let her use more of the language, adding that “my Korean is by no means perfect.”
Is Adeline Rudolph half white?
Yes, in the sense that her German father makes her half white by ancestry, alongside her Korean mother’s side.
Is Adeline Rudolph married?
No. She is engaged to actor Tommy Martinez, who proposed in December 2024 after six years together, but the couple has not announced a wedding date.
Who is Adeline Rudolph’s boyfriend or fiancé?
Her fiancé is Tommy Martinez, an actor and first assistant director known for Riverdale, Good Trouble, and Laid.
Does Adeline Rudolph have children?
No. She and Tommy Martinez do not have children together.
What is Adeline Rudolph’s net worth?
Aggregator estimates vary widely, but a figure built from her actual TV and film income points to a net worth realistically between $500,000 and $1.5 million as of 2026.
