Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress, best known for her role as Kelly Bundy on the sitcom Married... with Children.

Born in Hollywood, California, her father, Robert Applegate, was a record producer and her mother, Nancy Priddy , was an actress-singer. Her parents split up after she was born and her dad remarried. Christina has a step sister, Alisa, who is her best friend and a step brother Kyle.

Applegate quit school at age 17 to pursue acting. She still studies jazz and dance. She enjoys reading books about spirituality. She is friends with actresses Nicole Eggert and Gwyneth Paltrow. On October 20, 2001, she married longtime boyfriend Johnathon Schaech in a small Palm Springs ceremony attended by family and close friends. Christina is a supporter of PETA. Her height is 5'5" (1.65m) and her measurements, according to Celebrity Sleuth magazine are 35-23-35 1/2 (bust/waist/hips).

From 1987 to 1997, she played Kelly Bundy on Married... with Children. From 1998 to 2000, she starred in her own sitcom called Jesse.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, she was nominated four times in the annual Youth in Film Awards , two of which she won.

On April 21, 2005 Christina will have her Broadway debut playing the part of Charity in the musical, Sweet Charity.

Filmography (actress)

• Pretty Persuasion (2004)
• Surviving Christmas (2004)
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
• Employee of the Month (2004)
• Grand Theft Parsons (2003)
• Wonderland (2003)
• View from the Top (2003)
• Heroes (2003)
• The Sweetest Thing (2002)
• Sol Goode (2001) (uncredited)
• Just Visiting (2001)
• The Giving Tree (2000)
• Out in Fifty (1999)
• Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
• The Big Hit (1998)
• Claudine's Return (1998)
• Nowhere (1997)
• Mars Attacks! (1996)
• Vibrations (1995)
• Wild Bill (1995)
• Across the Moon (1995)
• Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
• Streets (1990)
• Beatlemania (1981)
• Jaws of Satan (1981)

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