Kristen Johnston,
(born September 20, 1967, in Washington, D.C., United
States), is an Emmy Award winning American stage, film,
and television actress.
Fame: She may be most famous for her Emmy Award
winning role in the television series 3rd Rock from the
Sun. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in the sequel
to the live-action movie adaptation of The Flintstones
animated series. Johnston is also known for her tall 6
ft (1.83 m) frame and relatively deep voice for an
actress. In 2005, Johnston featured in six episodes of
NBC's ER.
Adolescence: Johnston was raised mostly in
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, just outside of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where she graduated from Whitefish Bay High
School, although she spent some of her teen years as an
exchange student in Sweden and in South America. She
earned a B.F.A. degree in drama at New York University.
Career: Johnston made her professional stage
debut with New York's Atlantic Theater Company, which
was founded by playwright David Mamet. During her
association with that company she appeared in such
productions as As You Like It, Girl's Talk, Stage Door,
Author's Voice, Portrait of a Woman, and Rosemary for
Remembrance.
In addition, she performed with the Naked Angels Theatre
Company in The Stand-In and Hot Keys, and with New York
Stage and Film in Kim's Sister, with David Strathairn
and Jane Adams.
For her performance in The Lights at Lincoln Center
Theatre, Johnston was nominated for a Drama Desk Award
as Best Supporting Actress. The show brought her to the
attention of a Carsey-Werner television executive. After
numerous auditions in 1996 for the TV series 3rd Rock
from the Sun, she won the role of "Sally
Solomon", the alien lieutenant and security officer
posing as a sexy, female human in Ohio. She appeared in
the series from 1996-2001 along with John Lithgow, Jane
Curtin, French Stewart and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Johnston made her feature film debut in The Debt, winner
of Best Short at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In 1995,
she played Kate in Backfire. Other television credits
include guest-starring roles on the series Chicago Hope,
Hearts Afire, and The Five Mrs. Buchanans. She was also
the narrator in Microscopic Milton on the Disney
Channel. Her significant roles in commercially
successful movies included Austin Powers: The Spy Who
Shagged Me in 1999 and Austin Powers in Goldmember in
2002.
In 1998, she was a spokesmodel for the Clairol company
as well as appearing on the Bad Religion's No Substance
album cover.
Johnston appeared in the sixth and final season of Sex
and the City. In the episode entitled
"Splat!", she plays Lexi Featherston, an aging
party girl. After the character accidentally falls out
of a window and dies, Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah
Jessica Parker) reexamines her life and decides to move
to Paris with Aleksandr Petrovsky (played by Mikhail
Baryshnikov).
Emmy Award Nomination: For Emmy Awards received,
She was also nominated for an additional Emmy: 1998 -
Outstanding Supporting Actress - 3rd Rock from the Sun
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