Christina Applegate

About Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American Emmy Award winning actress, particularly well-known for playing 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 Farce of the Penguins, Anchorman, The Sweetest Thing, the Broadway revival of the musical Sweet Charity and is currently playing the lead character, Samantha Newly, in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who?

Applegate was born in Hollywood, California. Her father, Robert W. Applegate, was a record producer and record company executive, and her mother, Nancy Lee Priddy, was a singer and an actress. Her parents split up shortly after her birth. She has two half-siblings (Alisa and Kyle) from her father's remarriage.

At the age of three months, Christina Applegate made her TV debut, appearing with her mother in the soap Days of Our Lives and later, at age five, in a commercial for Playtex.[citation needed]