10 Interesting Things To Know About Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for portraying Kelly Bundy on the FOX sitcom Married with Children for which she earned six Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Applegate has also starred in many Hollywood films such as Never Been Kissed, The House Bunny, and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues. To learn more about her work to date, here are 10 interesting things to know about Christina Applegate.
The Girl Next Door
Christina Applegate was born in California on November 12, 1966. As a child, she portrayed the role of Jenny in the popular 1970s television shows Little House on the Prairie, which also starred her mother, actress Rose Marie. She first came to prominence as Kim Kelly in the sitcom Married… with Children (1987-1997). In 1996, she won an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the TV movie The Girl from Poughkeepsie.
Applegate’s films include: Never Been Kissed (1999), The House Bunny (2008), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), and Bad Moms (2016).
Her films have grossed over $1 billion worldwide.
Christina Applegate was married to Eddie Murphy from 1992 to 1995 and then again from 2003 until 2014.
In June 2017, Christina Applegate filed for divorce from her second husband Benji Madden after three years of marriage.
In October 2017, Christina Applegate announced that she is expecting her first child with her boyfriend Matthew Paetz.
A New Beginning for Christina Applegate
When she was 10, her mother left her father and moved with her children to Oregon. Her parents divorced in 1984, and she changed from Christina Erhardt to Christina Applegate.
In 1986, when she was 14, she starred in a commercial for Coca-Cola. The commercial aired during Super Bowl XX and helped her earn the title “The Coca-Cola Kid.”
She studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse but dropped out after one year.
One of her first professional acting jobs was on the soap opera Days of Our Lives as Bonnie Lockhart (1990).
In 1991, she auditioned for a role on Married… with Children and landed the role of Kelly Bundy. In 1992, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in Comedy Series. Three years later, in 1995, she won two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Comedy Series and Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy.
In 2003, Applegate went on to star in the film Never Been Kissed which grossed $57 million worldwide on opening weekend. She followed this up with The House Bunny (2008) which grossed $142 million worldwide at the box office and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), which grossed $150 million worldwide at the box office. In 2017, Applegate released her memoir entitled Crazy is Normal: Adventures in Parenting Reinventing
A Star is Born
In the movie A Star is Born, Christina Applegate stars Esther Blodgett, an aspiring singer-songwriter who falls in love with alcoholic rock star Norman Maine. The film was released in October 2018 and has been met with rave reviews from critics.
Her Awards And Accolades
Christina Applegate is an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for portraying Kelly Bundy on the FOX sitcom Married… with Children for which she earned six Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Applegate has also starred in many Hollywood films such as Never Been Kissed, The House Bunny, and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.
10 Interesting Facts About Christina Applegate
1. Christina Applegate was born on June 26, 1965, in the suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
2. She is the youngest of three children born to Martha and Stanley Applegate.
3. Her first acting role came at the age of 10 when she joined a Cincinnati theater company called Repertory Theater of Cincinnati.
4. In 1984, she got her big break when she landed a role on The Facts of Life as Natalie Greenbush.
5. After her run on The Facts of Life, Applegate briefly left show business to resume her education at UCLA where she graduated with a degree in political science in 1987 and married actor Chris Masson that same year.
6. As soon as their marriage ended, Christina moved back to Los Angeles where she would go on to make her film debut with Never Been Kissed (1998).
7. Three years later, Christina made an appearance in an episode of Friends as Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1999 which led to more guest-starring roles on popular television shows such as Will & Grace and Spin City before landing the lead role in the sitcom Married with Children (1991-97).
8. In 2004, Christina founded the charity group “The Art of Elysium” which helps provide art therapy for patients with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and AIDS.
Conclusion
Christina Applegate is a talented actress and producer with a career spanning over 30 years. In 1998, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Friends, and in 2011 she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in The Fighter.
