![]() ![]() Bell then moved to Los Angeles, California in 2002 because of her friendship with writers Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, and appeared in a handful of television shows as a special guest, finding trouble gaining a recurring role in a television series. Additionally, she auditioned for the television series Smallville for the role of Chloe Sullivan, which was eventually won by Allison Mack. In 2002, she appeared in the Broadway revival of The Crucible with Liam Neeson, Angela Bettis and Laura Linney. Her one line in the film was cut and her appearance exists only as a scene shown during the credit sequence. That same year, she made her credited film debut in Pootie Tang. In 2001, Bell left New York University to play a role as Becky Thatcher in the short-lived Broadway musical of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In 1998, she appeared with an uncredited role in the locally filmed movie Polish Wedding. Her mother had established her with an agent before Bell was 13, which allowed her to appear in newspaper advertisements for several Detroit retailers and television commercials. In 1992, Bell went to her first audition and won a dual role as a banana and a tree in a suburban Detroit theater's production of Raggedy Ann and Andy. In 2001, during her senior year, Bell left a few credits shy of graduating to take a role in the Broadway musical version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Shortly after her high school graduation, Bell moved to New York City to attend New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, majoring in musical theater. In 1998, the year she graduated, Bell was named the yearbook's "Best Looking Girl" by senior class vote. During her time at the school, she won the starring role in the school's 1997 production of The Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy Gale and also appeared in productions of Fiddler on the Roof (1995), Lady Be Good (1996), and Li'l Abner (1998). She then attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, where she took part in the drama and music club. Just before her freshman year of high school, Bell's parents decided to pull her from the public school system. Bell's mother convinced her to go by her middle name of Anne instead she used the name Annie until high school.īell once broke both her wrists at the same time playing street hockey with friends. ![]() ![]() Her mother is of Polish descent and her father has German, Scottish and Irish ancestry.īell stated that she did not like her first name at the age of four. She also has two half-sisters and two half-brothers from her mother's second marriage. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she has two stepsisters from her father's second marriage. Her mother, Lorelei (née Frygier), is a registered nurse, and her father, Tom Bell, works as the television news director for CBS Television in Sacramento. Kristen Anne Bell was born on July 18, 1980, and was raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Since 2016, she has starred in the main role of Eleanor Shellstrop on the NBCcomedy series The Good Place. From 2012 to 2016, she starred as Jeannie van der Hooven, the female lead on the Showtime series House of Lies. Bell garnered further recognition for voicing Princess Anna in the Disney film Frozen (2013), the short films Frozen Fever (2015) and Olaf's Frozen Adventure (2017), and the upcoming Frozen 2 (2019). She has since appeared in a number of comedy films, such as Couples Retreat (2009), When in Rome (2010), You Again (2010), The Boss(2016), Bad Moms (2016) and A Bad Moms Christmas (2017). In 2008, she had her breakout film role as the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. In 2007, Bell joined the cast of the sci-fi series Heroes, playing the character Elle Bishop. During her time on Veronica Mars, Bell appeared as Mary Lane in the film Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005), a reprise of the role she had played in the New York musical upon which the film was based. She reprised the eponymous role in the 2014 film continuation of the series. For her performance she was awarded a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. In 2004, she had a supporting role in the film Spartan and received praise for her first leading performance in Gracie's Choice.īell gained critical acclaim for her first major role as the title character in the teen noir drama television series Veronica Mars (2004–07). In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and starred in the Broadway revival of The Crucible the following year. She began her acting career starring in stage productions and attended the Tisch School of Arts in New York. Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. ![]()
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