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Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980)
is an American actress who is best known for starring in
the television show Veronica Mars.
Early life: Bell, who is of Polish and Irish
descent, was born and raised in Huntington Woods,
Michigan, a suburb about 3 miles north of Detroit. As a
child she once broke both wrists at once, while playing
hockey.
She went to her first audition at age 11 and won a dual
role as a banana and a tree in a suburban Detroit
theater's production of Raggedy Ann and Andy. She
attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal
Oak, where she took the starring role in the school's
1997 production of The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy Gale.
She also appeared in Fiddler on the Roof (1995), Lady Be
Good (1996), and Li'l Abner (1998).
In 1998, the year of her graduation, she was named the
yearbook's "Best Looking Girl" by senior class
vote. The same year, she appeared in the locally filmed
movie Polish Wedding.
In 2006, PETA named Kristen "Sexiest Vegetarian,
and in 2007 peta2 named Kristen along with AFI's Davey
Havok as "World's Sexiest Vegetarian."
Career: Bell was in her senior year at New York
University in 2001 when she left to take a key role as
Becky Thatcher in the short-lived Broadway musical of
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. That same year she made
her officially credited film debut in Pootie Tang
(though her appearance exists only in the credit
sequence). As well, she auditioned for the Smallville TV
role of Chloe Sullivan, a part eventually won by Allison
Mack. In 2002, she appeared in the Broadway revival of
The Crucible.
Bell then appeared in a handful of television shows as a
special guest before landing a role in the Hallmark
movie The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay in 2003. A
year later, she appeared in the television movie
Gracie's Choice.
In 2004, Bell made her big-screen debut, appearing in
David Mamet's Spartan as Laura Newton, the kidnapped
daughter of a high-ranking U.S. government official,
acting alongside Val Kilmer. Following this, she won the
role of the title character in UPN's drama Veronica
Mars, which was launched in the fall of 2004.
The show earned positive reviews from
television critics, as did Bell's performance, which
some critics have mentioned as worthy of an Emmy
nomination. In 2006 the show was renewed for a third
season, and returned on a newly created network, The CW.
On May 17, 2007, The CW canceled this program. The
two-hour series finale aired in the U.S. on Tuesday, May
22, 2007.
Bell also has guest-starred on HBO's drama Deadwood in a
two-episode story arc: the episodes "Bullock
Returns to the Camp" and "Suffer the Little
Children".
Bell received major publicity in 2005 when she was
chosen to perform the theme from Fame on the "Emmy
Idol" portion of the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy
Awards. Bell's performance was very well received by
fans and critics. Kristen Bell and Veronica Mars were
nominated for two Teen Choice Awards in 2005:
"Choice Breakout Actress" and "Choice
Breakout TV Show". Bell won the Saturn Award in
2006 for "Best Actress on Television".
Veronica Mars also was nominated for "Best Network
Television Show".
Bell appeared as Gracie in Fifty Pills, a Tribeca Film
Festival entry which premiered in April 2006. In the
spring of 2006, she finished filming Fanboys, which is
slated to be released in early 2008.
Bell now lives in Los Angeles and has made several
appearances on popular late-night television shows. A
film version of her off-Broadway musical Reefer Madness
(a spoof of the 1936 exploitation film of the same name,
which was in turn based on an anti-marijuana propaganda
film entitled Tell Your Children) debuted on the
Showtime network in April 2005, with Bell reprising the
role which she played in the musical.
She appeared in a short independent film called The
Receipt. She also had roles in the 2006 films Roman and
Pulse, the latter being an American remake of the
Japanese horror film Kairo.
She will also lend her voice and likeness to the video
game Assassin's Creed which is set for release in 2007
for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Kristen has also been featured in Maxim's Annual
"Hot 100" list. In the article she is said to
have "single-handedly saved the CW from becoming
the worst network ever". It's thought that Bell
will be the title character in the CW's new show Gossip
Girl, as an unseen narrator, airing on Wednesdays. |
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