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Christina Applegate

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Actor b. 1971 On stage 2005

Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is a retired American actress. She gained recognition in the late 1980s for playing Kelly Bundy in the Fox sitcom Married... with Children (1987–1997). Her titular role in the sitcom Jesse (1998–2000), earned her first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. For her guest role in the NBC sitcom Friends (2002–2003), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. She received additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her roles in the television sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–2009), starred in a short-lived sitcom Up All Night (2011–2012), and the dark tragic…

On stage 1 production

2005 Sweet Charity Al Hirschfeld Theatre · Revival · directed by Walter Bobbie 279 perf.

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  • Christina Applegate The biggest cliché in show business is the star who breaks her leg, thus allowing the understudy to go on and become a bigger star. It almost happened when Christina Applegate injured herself while doing Sweet Charity out of town. The understudy took over, but the show closed in Boston—until Applegate wouldn’t say die…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • The child was Christina Applegate, who would become a well-known actress nine years later, in 1987, when she started a ten-year run in as the not-so-bright bleached-blonde teen Kelly Bundy in the sitcom Married…With Children. Unlike so many young performers, however, Applegate did not just fade away. In 1998, she became the title characte…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • In an era when so many performers call in sick, Christina Applegate demonstrated that she still believed the show must go on.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt

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