November 25th, 2007 - Happy Birthday Christina Applegate!

She has since established a film and television career, with major roles in several pictures, such as Anchorman, The Sweetest Thing, the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? and recently starred on Broadway in a revival of the musical Sweet Charity.

At three months old, Christina Applegate made her TV debut appearing with her mother in the soap Days of Our Lives and later, at age five months, was seen in a commercial for Playtex.

Christina landed on the big screen at age nine when she was seen in the 1981 films Jaws of Satan (a.k.a. King Cobra) and Beatlemania.

Applegate debuted in a television movie as Young Grace Kelly in the biopic Grace Kelly (1983) and appeared on her first TV series in Showtime’s political comedy Washingtoon (1985), in which she played a congressman’s daughter. She was also spotted as a guest in the shows Father Murphy (1981) and Charles in Charge.

In 1986, Applegate won the role of Robin Kennedy, a cop’s daughter, on the police drama series Heart of the City.” Meanwhile, she also guest starred in the television shows All Is Forgiven, Still the Beaver, Amazing Stories and Family Ties.

Applegate eventually scored her most memorable role of ditzy Kelly Bundy in Fox’s comedy series Married… with Children. She portrayed her character for ten years (1987-1997) in the successful sitcom. While working on the series, Applegate was seen in Dance ‘Til Dawn (1988) and played a teen prostitute in Streets (1990).

Applegate guest starred in 21 Jump Street (1988), Top of the Heap (1991) as well as hosted Saturday Night Live (May 1993) and Mad TV (1996).

Playing Sue Ellen Crandell in the comedy feature Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (1991) was Applegate’s first starring role in a feature films. She followed it up with films like Vibrations (1995), Across the Moon (1995), Wild Bill (1995) and Mars Attacks! (1996) as well as Nowhere (1997).

After the sitcom Married… with Children was cancelled in May 1997, Applegate starred as Claudine Van Doozen in the independent feature Claudine’s Return (a.k.a. Kiss of Fire), was cast in the action-comedy The Big Hit, and played the fiancée of a Mob descendant in the Mafia satire Jane Austen’s Mafia (1998).

Applegate is friends with Cameron Diaz, Nicole Eggert (born two months after Christina), Gwyneth Paltrow (Applegate actually called Paltrow at the end of an E! television interview with Jules Asner with Paltrow referring to Applegate as “Tini” in 2001.), Jennifer Aniston (Applegate is extremely close to Aniston after helping her through her split with Brad Pitt), Robin Antin (creator of The Pussycat Dolls), Tori Spelling, Leah Remini, Lance Bass, Matt LeBlanc (from Married… with Children and Friends) and actress/singer Jessica Simpson.

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