Born: 25-Nov-1971
Birthplace: Hollywood, CA

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Married With Children

Christina Applegate made her TV debut at three months of age. Her mother, actress Nancy Priddy, was a regular on the soap opera Days of our Lives, and when Applegate was born, she appeared on the show in her mother's arms. In her first movie, 1981's King Cobra when she was 9, Applegate again played her mother's daughter. With her mother's connections, she easily found work as a child actress, appearing on shows like Quincy, Charles in Charge, and Family Ties in the mid-1980s. She played Rick Schroder's prom date on Silver Spoons, and played Grace Kelly as a child in a 1983 TV biopic, Grace Kelly.

Her first TV series was Showtime's political comedy Washingtoon (1985) as a Congressman's daughter. The next year, she was a cop's daughter on the police drama Heart of the City. Starting in 1987 when she was 16, Applegate played the nymphomaniac Kelly Bundy on the anti-family comedy Married with Children for eleven years.

She has also played a teen prostitute in 1990's Streets, a sleazy drug dealer in Wonderland, Gwyneth Paltrow's best friend in View from the Top, and Cameron Diaz's friend in The Sweetest Thing. In 1995's Vibrations, Applegate manages a rave where a handless keyboard-player finds redemption. Still, after 11 years of Married with Children it has been hard for audiences to see Applegate as anything else. Yet in 2004, Applegate's movie career got a lift with Anchorman, where she played a non-bimbo early TV anchorwoman, to Will Ferrell's dismay.

Father: Robert Applegate (record company executive)
Mother: Nancy Priddy (singer and actress)
Boyfriend: Christian Slater (actor, dated 1996)
Husband: Johnathon Schaech (actor, b. 10-Sep-1969, m. 20-Oct-2001, div. 10-Aug-2007)

    High School: Excelsior High School, Los Angeles, CA (1990)

    John Kerry for President
    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
    Endorsement of Hanesbrands Hanes underwear
    Endorsement of K-Mart
    Emmy
    Risk Factors: Vegetarian, Smoking

    TELEVISION
    Married with Children Kelly Bundy (1987-97)
    Jesse Jesse Warner (1998-2000)

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Farce of the Penguins (30-Jan-2007) [VOICE]
    Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (27-Mar-2005)
    Wake Up, Ron Burgundy (28-Dec-2004)
    Surviving Christmas (22-Oct-2004)
    Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (09-Jul-2004)
    Employee of the Month (17-Jan-2004)
    Grand Theft Parsons (06-Nov-2003)
    Wonderland (8-Sep-2003)
    View from the Top (21-Mar-2003)
    The Sweetest Thing (10-Apr-2002)
    Prince Charming (21-Oct-2001)
    Just Visiting (06-Apr-2001)
    The Giving Tree (7-Mar-2000)
    Out in Fifty (1999)
    Jane Austen's Mafia! (24-Jul-1998)
    The Big Hit (24-Apr-1998)
    Nowhere (9-May-1997)
    Mars Attacks! (13-Dec-1996)
    Wild Bill (1-Dec-1995)
    Across the Moon (28-Mar-1995)
    Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (7-Jun-1991)
    Streets (19-Jan-1990)
    Dance 'Til Dawn (23-Oct-1988)

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