Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress, singer, and producer. She began her professional acting career by starring in stage productions while attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In 2001, she made her Broadway stage debut as Becky Thatcher in the comedy musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In 2004, she appeared in the action thriller film Spartan and received critical praise for her performance in the television drama film Gracie’s Choice. In 2008, she had her breakout film role as the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. From 2007 to 2012, she voiced the titular narrator in the teen drama series Gossip Girl. From 2012 to 2016, Bell starred as Jeannie van der Hooven, the female lead on the Showtime
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Kristen Anne Bell is an American actress, singer, and producer. She began her professional acting career by starring in stage productions while attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In 2001, she made her Broadway stage debut as Becky Thatcher in the comedy musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In 2004, she appeared in the action thriller film Spartan and received critical praise for her performance in the television drama film Gracie’s Choice. In 2008, she had her breakout film role as the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. From 2007 to 2012, she voiced the titular narrator in the teen drama series Gossip Girl. From 2012 to 2016, Bell starred as Jeannie van der Hooven, the female lead on the Showtime comedy series House of Lies. From 2016 to 2020, she starred in the lead role of Eleanor Shellstrop on the acclaimed NBC comedy series The Good Place, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Bell garnered further recognition for voicing Princess Anna in the Disney animated fantasy films Frozen, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Frozen II, and the short films Frozen Fever and Olaf’s Frozen Adventure. She is of Polish descent, and her father has German, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Bell stated that she did not like her first name at the age of four, so her mother convinced her to go by her middle name, Anne, instead. Bell once broke both her wrists at the same time playing street hockey with friends.
She has two stepsisters from her father’s second marriage. She also has two half-sisters and two halfbrothers from her mother’s first marriage. Her mother had established her with an agent before she was 13, which allowed her to appear in newspaper advertisements for several Detroit retailers and television commercials. 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, Lady, Be Good, and Li’l Abner. In 1998, the year she graduated, Bell was named the yearbook’s \”Best Looking Girl\” by senior class vote. In 2002, she won the role of Chloe Sullivan for the television series Smallville, which was eventually won by Allison Mack. She appeared in a short-lived Broadway play in the musical The Crucible with Liam Neeson, Angela Linney and Laura Linney. In 2003, she played Becky Thatcher on Broadway in the revival of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, which she later reprised in the 2014 film continuation and the 2019 revival series. In 2005, she was cast as Mary Lane in Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, a reprise of the role she had played in the New York musical upon which the film was based. In 2007, Bell played Elle Bishop in the science fiction drama series Heroes. She was awarded a Saturn Award for Best actress on Television. For her performance on Veronica Mars, she also won the Saturn Award.
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