Christina Applegate

Biography

Christina Applegate is an American actress. She gained recognition in the late 1980s for playing Kelly Bundy in the Fox sitcom Married... with Children (1987–1997). For her titular role in the sitcom Jesse (1998–2000), she 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) and the dark tragicomedy series Dead to Me (2019–2022), and also starred in the short-lived sitcom Up All Night (2011–2012). Applegate served as a producer of all three aforementioned projects.