Christina Applegate

American actress who gained recognition for starring as Kelly Bundy in the comedy sitcom "Married... with Children" (1987–1997). She established a successful film and television career in her adult years, winning a Primetime Emmy Award as well as gaining nominations for four Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.

Applegate left school at 17. She can not remember a time when she was not in show biz. Being raised with a single parent mom, she went along on casting calls and had her first job at age five months with her mom in a soap. By the time she was seven, her income from radio and TV commercials paid for a new family home. Her mom did not remarry but spent years with rock star Stephen Stills but her dad remarried and had two more kids, step-siblings.

By ten, Christine was acting in TV shows and movies and her first series was "Heart of the City" in 1986. Her own wild-child phase included a four-year relationship that was dysfunctional but her recovery was less scarred than some child actors.

After "Married" reached a wrap, she did a few movies then an adult sitcom, "Jesse," 1998-2000. In 2001, she was seen in "The Sweetest Thing" and "A View From the Top." She and Jonathan Schaech married in Palm Springs, CA, on 20 October 2001.

The actress was thrilled at the prospect of starring for the first time in a Broadway musical, revival of “Sweet Charity” scheduled to open in New York on 21 April 2005. She endured rigorous training for the song-and-dance numbers and was on a pre-Broadway tour. Alas, she broke her foot during a performance in Chicago, IL, on 10 March 2005 and has had to abandon her live-stage career at least temporarily.

She was expecting to return to pre-Broadway-opening rehearsals on 4 April 2005 but the show closed following its Boston run the last weekend of March, 2005 instead.