Christina Applegate born (November 25, 1971) is an American actress, dancer and producer.
As a child actress, she gained recognition for starring as Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married… with Children (1987–1997). Applegate established a successful film and television career in her adult years, winning a Primetime Emmy Award from seven nominations, as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.
Applegate starred in the title role of the NBC sitcom Jesse (1998–2000), which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
She received a Primetime Emmy Award for her guest role in the NBC sitcom Friends (2002–2003).
For her role in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity (2005), she earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She went on to star in the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007–2009), for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.
The NBC sitcom Up All Night (2011–2012), and in the Netflix dark tragicomedy series Dead to Me (2019–present), which earned her three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Applegate has also had major roles in several films:
- Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991)
- The Big Hit (1998)
- The Sweetest Thing (2002)
- Grand Theft Parsons (2003)
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
- Hall Pass (2011)
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
- Vacation (2015)
- Bad Moms (2016)
- Crash Pad (2017).
1. I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That’s probably why I had so many bad relationships. – Christina Applegate
2. I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they’re all important. – Christina Applegate
3. I’m a grown-up now, and I value the training I had. Christina Applegate The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don’t want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals? – Christina Applegate
4. 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. – Christina Applegate
5. My earliest memories were when my mom would put me in the plays that she was in because she couldn’t afford a babysitter… she was part of this theater group. – Christina Applegate
6. I have talked to women who do yoga, who are vegan, who have never smoked and/or never drank a day in their life, but they have Stage IV breast cancer. So you do what you can to be as healthy as you can if you know you’re high-risk because yes, all those things can factor into that. But sometimes it’s just a fluke. – Christina Applegate
7. My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air. – Christina Applegate
8. For breakfast, I juice a big green juice, and I try to get in as much raw food and protein as I can, obviously plant proteins and legumes, but sometimes it’s late at night, and there’s a frozen pizza in there, and sometimes it’s all you’ve got! You don’t have the energy to chop up a bunch of vegetables. – Christina Applegate
9. I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don’t realize they can get that same high with that same person again. – Christina Applegate
10. We have to really think about where our food is coming from. The hormones being put in the stuff we eat – all of that contributes to cancer. – Christina Applegate
11. When I first came out about my breast cancer, I didn’t want to talk about it, but I had to, because young women were getting it, and people weren’t understanding that. – Christina Applegate
12. With a mammogram – as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives – if you have very dense breasts, it really can’t see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that’s what you want to see before it becomes a tumor. – Christina Applegate
13. 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. – Christina Applegate
14. If you have insomnia, it’s important to know you’re not alone; there are millions of people also struggling with their sleep. Talk about what you’re going through with others, including your doctor, and continue trying new things to help manage your insomnia. – Christina Applegate
15. We’re a 100-percent-organic house. My daughter is a vegetarian and practically vegan. That’s her choice. That’s how she eats. We’re really conscious about what we buy. – Christina Applegate
16. I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it. – Christina Applegate
17. I used to be a stressed-out person. I’m not anymore. I try to find the lining in everything in life. – Christina Applegate
18. I wasn’t one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded. – Christina Applegate
19. 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. – Christina Applegate
20. 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. – Christina Applegate
21. If something doesn’t sit right with you, you got to say no. – Christina Applegate
22. There was a time when I was like, ‘I’m a dramatic actor,’ ‘I’m a comedian’… There’s no line anymore. You have to be able to cross over. – Christina Applegate
