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Christina Applegate
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BIOGRAPHY
Occupation - Actress
Date of Birth - November 25, 1971
Birth Place - Hollywood, California, USA
Residence - Beverly Hills, California,
USA
Height - 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Eyes: Green
Hair:
Blonde/Brunette
Education: Attended Excelsior High School in Los Angeles
but dropped out to work on Married...With Children.
Maritial Status: Married
Johnathon Schaech
(October 20, 2001 - present) (filed for divorce)
Christina Applegate ws born in Hollywood, California on November 25th, 1971. She is the daughter of record producer Robert Applegate and singer-actress, Nancy Priddy. Her parents split up shortly after she was born. her father re-married and she has two step-siblings named Alisa (b. 1977) & Kyle (b. 1981). Alisa and Christina are best friends and even lived together while Alisa was going to college. Christina once was a student herself at Excelsior High School in Los Angeles, but dropped out to pursue an acting career at age 16. Christina went to high school with Milla Jovovich and is a friend of actress Nicole Eggert.
Christina's mother took her along on all of her auditions and acting jobs while she was growing up.
Eventually baby Christina made her acting debut at age five months, when her mother got her in a commercial for Playtex nursers. She appeared on television as an infant in a commercial for the disposable diapers in 1972. Her mother never remarried, but kept company with Stephen Stills for many years during her childhood. Christina still cherishes a guitar Stephen gave her when she was a very young girl. Christina still studies jazz dance. A naturally sexy blonde Hollywood Califorrnia baby, Applegate was raised by her always broke actress mother, Nancy Priddy, after Priddy split from Applegate's father, record executive Bobby Applegate. Making her acting debut as an infant with her mother on TV's Days of Our Lives, Applegate subsequently landed her first movie role at age ten when she appeared with Priddy in the low-grade horror flick Jaws of Satan (1981). After playing Grace as a child in the TV biopic Grace Kelly (1983), Applegate guest starred on several TV shows before landing her own permanent series role in the short-lived Heart of the City (1986).
Her next series, however, proved would make her a star. Debuting in 1987 on the fledgling Fox TV network, Married...With Children withstood criticisms about its all-around vulgarity to become one of Fox's first signature hits.
She landing her breakout role in "Married...With Children " (1987-1997) when she was 16 years old. The pilot aired in in 1987. During its ten-year run, Married...With Children also spawned the TV movie It's a Bundyful Life (1992), featuring Applegate and the rest of the Bundy clan in a spoof of holiday chestnut, It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Later she appears as a "bone her" fide teeny heartthrob/star, Applegate attempted to show her serious side as a prostitute and drug addict in the gritty drama Streets (1990). Teen comedy Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) she tried to capitalize on Applegate's TV fame while showcasing her as a smart, resourceful, anti-Bundy type character. Also during Married ..... With Children's run, Applegate appeared in the female road movie Across the Moon (1994), as mutilated rock musician-drama Vibrations (1995), and later as the town whore in Walter Hill's underrated Western Wild Bill (1995).
Applegate's Married fame further landed her a small part in the all-star ensemble populating Tim Burton's science fiction parody Mars Attacks! (1996), and wryly shaded her presence in Gregg Araki's Los Angeles teen anomie opus Nowhere (1997), the slickest entrant in his "teen apocalypse trilogy."
Ready to leave the TV-bred jiggly teen realm behind after Married ..... With Children went off the air in 1997, Applegate co-starred with Mark Wahlberg in the Hong Kong-tinged action-comedy The Big Hit (1998) and played the WASP fiancée of a Mob scion in Jim Abrahams' Mafia movie parody Mafia! (1998). She eventually co-starred with her husband, Johnathon Schaech, and "Hottie in Pink" teen idol Molly Ringwald in the high school reunion thriller The Giving Tree (1999) as well. Inspired by her experience with her mother growing up, though, Applegate agreed to return to TV to star as a single mom balancing work and family in the TV sitcom "Jesse" (1998).
Despite choice time slots, however, Jesse was cancelled in 2000. Applegate returned to acting in a movie comedy co-starring with Jean Reno as a princess and modern gal in the ill-received remake of a French time-travel yarn Just Visiting (2001).
Christina is married to longtime boyfriend Johnathon Schaech on October 20, 2001, in a small Palm Springs ceremony, attended by immediate family and friends. Sh met her husband, Johnathon Schaech, thru director Gregg Araki.
Subsequently holding her own opposite some of her more lustrous film peers, Applegate earned far better reviews than the movie itself as Cameron Diaz's levelheaded best friend in the raunchy female bonding romp The Sweetest Thing (2002), and flew the friendly skies with Gwyneth Paltrow in the flight attendant comedy A View From the Top (2003). While filming, she met Gwyneth Paltrow. They are now apparently very good friends.
In 2004, Applegate landed herself leading-lady roles in two of the year's most anticipated films. First, in July, she starred opposite Will Ferrell in the 70s-era comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Then, the following November, she could be seen with Ben Affleck in the holiday comedy film Surviving Christmas. She clearly has great talent but realistically she may have bare it all to see any Ocsar nods in her future.
FACTS
Supports People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Enjoys books about spirituality.
Has one half-brother and one half-sister from her father's subsequent marriage after he and Christina's mother, Nancy Priddy, divorced.
Co-wrote "The Penis Song" with The Sweetest Thing (2002) co-stars Cameron Diaz and Selma Blair, but the trio's performance of the song was edited out of the final cut.
Referred to in the 1991 song "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" by PM Dawn.
Finds Al Green's song "Simply Beautiful" one of the sexiest songs she's ever heard.
On Friday 11 March 2005, while on stage in Chicago in the Broadway-bound revival of the 1966 musical "Sweet Charity", she broke a bone in her right foot. On Friday 25 March 2005, in Boston with Charlotte d'Amboise in the titular role, its producers officially canceled the production, announcing it would close after its last regularly scheduled try-out performance, the Sunday 27 March 2005 matinée. On Tuesday 27 March 2005, the production was officially resurrected with a revised Broadway preview and opening schedule. Although Ms. d'Amboise continued in the lead role for the first week of Broadway previews, on Monday 18 April 2005, Applegate made her Broadway debut as Charity Hope Valentine. On Wednesday 4 May 2005, the second Broadway revival of "Sweet Charity" opened officially with Ms. Applegate as its star. She has been nominated for a 2005 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
QUOTES "This was a major commitment. I really had to sit and think about it. I eventually came to the conclusion that it came into my life for a reason." - on accepting her role in the sitcom "Jesse" (1998).
"There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was growing up, watching all my mother did for me. But it wasn't until recently that I fully understood the price she
paid because of how we had to struggle."
"The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person. I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there. And I want to be with that person until I'm 80 years old, sitting out on the porch with our glasses of lemonade, laughing about our lives."
"The show definitely shocked and disgusted people. But, privately, they enjoyed laughing at it. I think all too often people look at the perfect families on television and think 'Why can't my family be like that?' In the case of _"Married... with Children" (1987)_ , people were able to say, 'Thank God my family's not like that!'" - on her sitcom _"Married... with Children" (1987)_ , which ran from 1987 to 1997.
"I've always been shy and sort of vulnerable. My mom says that when she would drop me off at school, I'd stand back and check out the situation - see if it was safe before I'd join the other kids."
"I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded." - on becoming a TV star in her teens
"We're best friends. And that spark is always there. I can't wait to see him, even though I saw him a few hours ago." - about her husband actor Johnathon Schaech.
"I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn't talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working."
"It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage."
"It's one of those choices that I can honestly say was a big mistake. I wish I had a better knowledge of history and the other things I could've learned. Of course, nothing is stopping me from learning now. In fact, I'm probably better prepared." - on having quit school
"Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family."
AWARDS Won a 2005 Theatre World Award for her
Performance in Sweet Charity
Nominated for a 2005 Tony Award as Best Lead Actress
in a Musical for her Performance in Sweet Charity
Nominated for a 2005 Drama Desk Award as Best Lead
Actress in a Musical for her Performance in Sweet Charity
Chosen as one of People Magazine's,
"50 Most Beautiful People, 1999"
Then, the following November, she could be seen with Ben Affleck in the holiday comedy film 
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