Kristen Bell: The Petite actress charms fans from far and wide
Kristen Bell: The Petite actress charms fans from far and wide
Kristen bell was born in Michigan in United States in 1980. Her father is the director for television news in WOAI-TV and her mother is a registered nurse. She was 2 years of age when her parents divorced. She has two step sisters from her father's second marriage and four siblings from her mother's second marriage. Bell's acting career started early when her parents decided to take her out from Burton elementary school and put her into Shrine Catholic High School. She bagged quite a few accolades for the roles she did for school production such as THE Wizard of Oz', Fiddler on the Roof' etc. In 1998 she was voted the Best Looking Girl in the School by the senior school votes. Bell has a lazy eye which she inherited from her mother.
In 1998 Bell appeared for an unimportant role in the movie Polish wedding. In 2001, Bell left New York University to appear for a role of Becky Thatcher in the Broadway musical of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She made her credited film debut in Pootie Tang. In 2004 she got her first big break which really started rolling her career as an actress. She appeared in the LifeTime television movie Gracie's Choice which heaped the highest TRP. She made her big debut with the movie SPARTAN. She also had a guest appearance in HBO's drama Deadwood for two episodes. She also did a title character in the drama Veronica Mars. The character she played in the drama had a lot of equivalence with her life. She received critical acclaim for the character she played in Veronica Mars missed the Emmy by the whisker.
Kristen Bell is an avid animal lover and is an active member of PETA. She is vegetarian and loves her Brussels sprouts more than the animal flesh served on her plate. Bell was voted as the World's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2006 by PETA and was rated as one of the 11 ladies liked to be looked naked by Jane's magazine.
Inspite of her new found celebrity status Bell claims that nothing much has changed in her personal life and she hangs with her old friends as she has always done and will continue to be like that.