Peggy Blumquist is a fictional character in the second season of the FX television series Fargo and is portrayed by Kirsten Dunst.

Peggy panics and drives home with Rye on her hood, stuck through her windshield, instead of calling the police (a reference to the murder of Gregory Glenn Biggs).

State trooper Lou Solverson figures out what happened and tries to persuade the Blumquists to come forward so the police can protect them from the Gerhardts, but Peggy tells him to leave.

Ed and Peggy then flee, taking Dodd prisoner, planning to make a deal with the Gerhardts to exchange him for safety.

The South Dakota State Police strong-arm Peggy and Ed into wearing wiretaps when meeting with the Kansas City mob in return for reduced jail time, and place them under protective custody in a hotel.

Hanzee runs after them and mortally wounds Ed, but Peggy manages to drag him into a grocery store and hole up in the walk-in freezer.

On the way there, in Lou's police car, Peggy expresses her hope to be taken to a federal prison in California before lamenting that she just "wanted to be somebody" and is also a victim.

When holed up in the cabin, she is engrossed in a fictional World War II movie, Operation Eagle's Nest, in which an SS Officer lights a fire to smoke out a man and woman hiding in a basement.

Noah Hawley has stated that when he started writing season two, he initially planned the season out as being more focused on Ed and Peggy instead of being an ensemble drama, saying "this idea of a couple, played by Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst, who are caught between these two rival crime organizations, the Gerhardt family and the Kansas City mafia.