|
|
| Birth Name(s) : Christina Applegate |
Date of Birth: November 25, 1971 |
| Status:
Dating
|
Partner:
Johnathon Schaech |
| Profession:
Actor |
| << Add Christina Applegate To Your Favorites |
Christina Applegate Promotions
|
Full Christina Applegate Biography
| Christian Applegate started in Kmart commercials at age 4 and played in several TV series before landing her breakout role in "Married... With Children" (1987). Her short skirts and teased hair made the ditzy blonde persona infamous as Kelly Bundy. Christina eventually moved onto the big screen with "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" (1991), "The Big Hit" (1998) and "Just Visiting" (2001). |
|
Christina Applegate Advertisements
|
Additional Christina Applegate Biography
Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated actress, particularly well-known for playing the very attractive, promiscuous, dim-witted Kelly Bundy on the Fox television network sitcom Married… with Children. She has since established a film and television career, with major roles in several pictures, such as Anchorman, The Sweetest Thing, the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? and recently starred on Broadway in a revival of the musical Sweet Charity.
At three months old, Christina Applegate made her TV debut appearing with her mother in the soap Days of Our Lives and later, at age five months, was seen in a commercial for Playtex.
Christina landed on the big screen at age nine when she was seen in the 1981 films Jaws of Satan (a.k.a. King Cobra) and Beatlemania.
Applegate debuted in a television movie as Young Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace Kelly (1983) and appeared on her first TV series in Showtime's political comedy Washingtoon (1985), in which she played a congressman's daughter. She was also spotted as a guest in the shows Father Murphy (1981) and Charles in Charge.
In 1986, Applegate won the role of Robin Kennedy, a cop's daughter, on the police drama series Heart of the City." Meanwhile, she also guest starred in the television shows All Is Forgiven, Still the Beaver, Amazing Stories and ].
Applegate guest starred in ] (1988), Top of the Heap (1991) as well as hosted Saturday Night Live (May 1993) and ] (1996).
Playing Sue Ellen Crandell in the comedy feature ] (1991) was Applegate's first starring role in a feature films. She followed it up with films like Vibrations (1995), Across the Moon (1995), Wild Bill (1995) and Mars Attacks! (1996) as well as Nowhere (1997).
In that same year, Applegate landed the role of "Jesse" in their sitcom with the same title. The series debuted in 1998, received rave reviews, and brought Applegate a People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV series and the TV Guide Award for Star of a New Series as well as a nomination at the Golden Globe for Lead Actress in a Comedy. Though the series garnered praise, it only stayed on the air for two years before being cancelled in 2000.
Applegate won the 55th Annual Prime Time Emmy Award for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy after she guest starred as Amy Green, Jennifer Aniston's sister, in the hit series Friends in November 2002 and October 2003. On the silver screen, she portrayed TV anchorwoman Veronica Corningstone in the 2004 films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie.
Adding to her screen work, Applegate has performed on stage in such productions as The Axeman's Jazz, Nobody Leaves Empty Handed, The Runthrough, as well as John Cassavetes' The Third Day. In 2004, she debuted on the Broadway stage playing the title role of Charity Hope Valentine in a revival of the 1966 musical Sweet Charity. She eventually took home the 2005 Theatre World Award and was nominated for a 2005 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
While playing the title role in a revival of Sweet Charity, Applegate broke her foot, and it was announced that the musical would close during previews. She persuaded the producers to rescind their decision, and on April 18, 2005, she made her Broadway debut. Sweet Charity ended its Broadway run on December 31, 2005. She also guest-starred on two episodes of Friends, one in the ninth season, and one in the tenth, titled "The One with Rachel's Other Sister" and "The One Where Rachel's Sister Babysits" respectively (in 2002 and 2003) as Amy Green, Rachel's (Jennifer Aniston) youngest sister. She won an Emmy for her performance in "The One with Rachel's Other Sister". In 2006, she appeared in an advertising campaign for Hanes title "Look who we've got our Hanes on now". The campaign started in 2005 but she, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Kevin Bacon were added to the ads in 2006.
In 2006, Applegate appeared in Jessica Simpson's music video "A Public Affair", alongside Eva Longoria, Ryan Seacrest and Christina Milian.
"I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working."
"The secret to playing dumb is that you think that everything you're saying is completely brilliant, that you're right-on about everything, and also I used to play as a virgin. That's what I'd tell myself before I'd go out, so she had this sort of wonderful, vulnerable quality about her."
"This was a major commitment. I really had to sit and think about it. I eventually came to the conclusion that it came into my life for a reason."
"There are people, including certain studio executives who will remain nameless, who still think of me as an 18 year old girl with long blonde hair and tight clothes. Maybe they're not on the up and up with what I've done in the last few years and that's okay. That'll happen. But it gets really old. I mean, we stopped doing "Married... with Children" a long time ago. It was another century ago." |
|
| Add Christina Applegate Biography (SuperUSERS) + |
Christina Applegate Quote(s)
| I've always been shy and sort of vulnerable. My mom says that when she would drop me off at school, I'd stand back and check out the situation - see i |
|
| Add Christina Applegate Review/Comment
|
HQ Christina Applegate Pictures (397) | Random Christina Applegate Picture
|
| << Back to the Christina Applegate Homepage |
|
