Post by marie on Feb 4, 2009 16:43:28 GMT -5
Name: Kristen Anne Bell
Birthdate: July 18, 1980
Birthplace: Huntington Woods, Michigan
Occupation: Actress
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Blonde
Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
Siblings: 2 sisters (Jody, Sara)
Attended Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan.
After playing Mary Lane in the "Reefer Madness" stage musical, she was asked to reprise the role in the film version, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005).
Has two stepsisters by her father's remarriage - Sara and Jody. They were both born in Canada.
Is of Polish & Irish descent.
Has two dogs: Lola and Mr. Shakes.
Plays a 17-year-old on "Veronica Mars" (2004) but is 7 years older than her character.
Was raised in suburban Huntington Woods, Michigan, and attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan, the same school actress Jessy Hodges and actor David Geister attended.
Her parents Tom Bell, a television news director, and Lorelei Bell, a registered nurse, divorced when she was two.
Named #68 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
Has now played two different characters named "Gracie" - in Fifty Pills (2006) and in Gracie's Choice (2004) (TV).
Is a vegetarian.
Is a big fan of "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1990).
She worked at a TCBY in Royal Oak in 1997-98 while a Senior in High School.
Lived in Huntington Woods, Michigan with other performers such as Ellen Sandweiss, Jessy Hodges, David Geister and Julie Schamanski.
Her favorite episode of "Veronica Mars" (2004) (as of 2006) is "The Wrath of Con" (Episode 1.4).
Named #11 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2006" list.
Was voted PETA's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" for 2006.
BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (2002).
Named #1 on Maxim's 2006 list of "Fall TV's Criminally Sexy Investigators".
Roots passionately for the Detroit Red Wings.
Was named by Jane magazine in the U.S.A. as one of the "11 People You'd Most Like to See Naked." She posed for the magazine's July 2005 issue.
Says she was a vegan in high school, but had to give it up because of her love of cheese.
Enrico Colantoni, who plays her father on "Veronica Mars" (2004), is only 17 years older than she is.
She loves animals and often volunteers for animal related charities.
She's an investor in bar L'Scorpion.
Was named the Popular Television Actress Most AIM users wanted to Add to Their Buddy Lists, and received the AIM Best TV Buddy award.
She was mentioned in People's Magazine "Most Beautiful 2007" on the Beauty at every age page. She was the beauty at age 26.
Named #24 on the Stuff Magazine "100 Sexiest Women 2007" list.
Named #46 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2007" list.
Was voted peta2's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" for 2007.
Was named #11 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2006" list.
In 1998, the year of her graduation, she appeared in Polish Wedding (1998), a movie that was being filmed locally.
Named the yearbook's "Best Looking Girl" by senior class vote.
Was the Maxim cover feature for March 2006.
Broke both her wrists playing hockey.
Lived with producer Kevin Mann for a number of years.
Has a black Labrador, who is 11 years old and rescued from Hurricane Katrina [2008].
Aspires to be a stand-up comic.
Has dessert after every meal, even breakfast.
When she was 3 years old, announced to her parents that she was changing her name to "Smurfette".
Helped deliver two babies while doing volunteer work in Brazil.
Fan of Amy Poehler.
Has a "lazy eye" (her right eye) which she demonstrated on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005).
Was #24 on FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2008" list.
On her mother's side, she is of Polish descent like her fellow co-star Stephen Tobolowsky, who plays her father on "Heroes" (2006/II).
Ranked #55 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Ranked #4 on Wizard magazine's "Sexiest Women of TV" list (March 2008).
Also attended Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan.
OTHER RANDOM FACTS
• Kristen is appearing in AE Winter Tales - Gifts, a holiday-themed stop-animation short films for American Eagle Outfitters. The digital shorts also featured Lil Jon, Pete Wentz and Adrianne Palicki. It was produced and directed by Milo Ventimiglia. Kristen's co-star from Heroes.
• In 2006, Kristen appeared in a TV commercial for Old Navy.
• Kristen said, during an interview on Jay Leno, that she broke both her wrists while playing hockey.
• She loves animals and often volunteers for animal related charities.
• Kristen is a vegetarian but loves cheese.
• Kristen loves nerds.
• Kristen was offered a recurring role on Lost at the same time that she was offered on Heroes. She chose Heroes in order to stay in Los Angeles.
• The names of her parents are Lorelei and Tom Bell.
• Kristen is an investor in L'Scorpion, a new bar that's turned up the heat on Hollywood Boulevard. Kristen also uses the club for her own private parties.
• Kristen was voted peta2.com's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" for 2007.
• Kristen was named the Popular Television Actress Most AIM users wanted to Add to Their Buddy Lists, and received the AIM Best TV Buddy award.
• Kristen turned down the lead role in the stage version of the musical Xanadu.
• Kristen's favourite video-games are Mario Kart and James Bond on the Nintendo 64.
• Kristen will be in 'Assassin's Creed', a new video-game by UbiSoft to be released November 2007. Kristen will voice one of the game's characters and her face and body were scanned in 3D for incorporation into the game.
• Kristen may not be back as Veronica Mars since the show is most probably canceled. But Kristen will be back on the CW's new show Gossip Girl as the gossip girl narrator.
• Kristen and her boyfriend now have three dogs. Lola and Mr. Shakes have another playmate.
• Kristen recently bought a new house, which she is renovating to Green standards with the help of new Veronica Mars co-star Ed Begley Jr.
• Kristen drives a Saturn hybrid, as does her character in Veronica Mars.
• Kristen appeared on the CW Network preview show. Her bangs kept getting in her eyes and she said that plot lines for this season are top secret.
• Became a vegetarian at about age 11 because she "couldn't disassociate between hamburger and my dog." Also was traumatized by dry, chewy Detroit pork chops.
• Kristen's favorite TV shows: Extreme Home Makeover, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, America's Funniest Home Videos.
• Kristen was in Polish Wedding, though uncredited. She was a high school senior and the film was shot in her hometown.
• Auditioned for the role of Chloe Sullivan on Smallville, but lost out to Allison Mack.
• She was voted "Best Looking Girl" by her Royal Oak High School senior class.
• As a high school senior, Kristen worked at TCBY in Royal Oak, Michigan.
• Kristen was a celebrity guest for the Superman Returns premiere.
• Her favorite episode of "Veronica Mars" (2004) (as of 2006) is "The Wrath of Con" (Episode 1.4).
• Kristen moved to New York at 18 to go to college.
• Kristen says her sister having a baby is way more important than shooting an episode of Veronica Mars.
• Kristen collects stray animals and shelters them in her home.
• Kristen has blue eyes and blond hair.
• Kristen is 5'1.
• Kristen was recently on the hit MTV series, Punk'd. She was being accused of stealing a dog when she really found it.
• Kristen's astrological sign is a Cancer.
• Kristen played the title role in Sneaux!, the SINsational Gothic Figure Skating Musical on the Los Angeles stage in 2003.
• Kristen played a 13 year old in Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music at Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Summer 2004.
• Kristen competed in the Emmy Idol competition in 2005's Emmy Award Ceremonies. She sang the theme song from "Fame," in which her Veronica Mars co-star Erica Gimpel appeared.
• Kristen attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan. There she was known as "Annie Bell", because "Annie" was her favorite musical.
• Kristen's parents divorced when she was only two years old.
• Kristen's picture on front of a hockey ticket when she was younger. It was of her and the Stanley Cup. It is the most illustrious prize in hockey.
• If Kristen had to choose between Hockey & Brad Pitt, she would choose Hockey.
• Kristen loves the Detroit Red Wings.
• At an early age Kristen wanted to be called Smurfette and Matthew. Instead they called her by her middle name, Annie.
• When she was younger, she hated being called Kristen.
• As a teen, Kristen appeared in United Way commercials in the greater Detroit area. She reportedly looked much the same at 10 as she does now.
• Kristen made some of her earliest on-screen appearances in Bar Mitzvah videos during her days at Norup Middle School.
• Kristen recently bought a house in L.A. which she shares with her boyfriend, Kevin Mann, a high school swim coach and independent film producer. They have been together for three years.
• Kristin participated and sang at the Los Angeles Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in 2004.
• Kristen had a recent photo op at a dress up affair with Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson and Olivia Wilde of the rival FOX network. Does this mean that Neptune High is in the O.C.?
• For those interested in seeing Kristen display some dramatic chops, you might keep an eye out for Gracie's Choice which played on Lifetime recently. Knowing that network, the Bell vehicle will be shown again and again. In GC, Kristen plays a high schooler force to fend for herself and her two younger brothers when abandoned by their drug-addicted mom (scarily played by Anne Heche).
• She was in good company in the lower echelons.
• Kristen's dogs, Lola and Mr. Shakes, qualified for an SAG card by appearing in the 'Hot Dogs' episode of Veronica Mars.
Birthdate: July 18, 1980
Birthplace: Huntington Woods, Michigan
Occupation: Actress
Eye color: Blue
Hair color: Blonde
Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
Siblings: 2 sisters (Jody, Sara)
Attended Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan.
After playing Mary Lane in the "Reefer Madness" stage musical, she was asked to reprise the role in the film version, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005).
Has two stepsisters by her father's remarriage - Sara and Jody. They were both born in Canada.
Is of Polish & Irish descent.
Has two dogs: Lola and Mr. Shakes.
Plays a 17-year-old on "Veronica Mars" (2004) but is 7 years older than her character.
Was raised in suburban Huntington Woods, Michigan, and attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan, the same school actress Jessy Hodges and actor David Geister attended.
Her parents Tom Bell, a television news director, and Lorelei Bell, a registered nurse, divorced when she was two.
Named #68 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2005" list.
Has now played two different characters named "Gracie" - in Fifty Pills (2006) and in Gracie's Choice (2004) (TV).
Is a vegetarian.
Is a big fan of "America's Funniest Home Videos" (1990).
She worked at a TCBY in Royal Oak in 1997-98 while a Senior in High School.
Lived in Huntington Woods, Michigan with other performers such as Ellen Sandweiss, Jessy Hodges, David Geister and Julie Schamanski.
Her favorite episode of "Veronica Mars" (2004) (as of 2006) is "The Wrath of Con" (Episode 1.4).
Named #11 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2006" list.
Was voted PETA's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" for 2006.
BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (2002).
Named #1 on Maxim's 2006 list of "Fall TV's Criminally Sexy Investigators".
Roots passionately for the Detroit Red Wings.
Was named by Jane magazine in the U.S.A. as one of the "11 People You'd Most Like to See Naked." She posed for the magazine's July 2005 issue.
Says she was a vegan in high school, but had to give it up because of her love of cheese.
Enrico Colantoni, who plays her father on "Veronica Mars" (2004), is only 17 years older than she is.
She loves animals and often volunteers for animal related charities.
She's an investor in bar L'Scorpion.
Was named the Popular Television Actress Most AIM users wanted to Add to Their Buddy Lists, and received the AIM Best TV Buddy award.
She was mentioned in People's Magazine "Most Beautiful 2007" on the Beauty at every age page. She was the beauty at age 26.
Named #24 on the Stuff Magazine "100 Sexiest Women 2007" list.
Named #46 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2007" list.
Was voted peta2's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" for 2007.
Was named #11 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100 of 2006" list.
In 1998, the year of her graduation, she appeared in Polish Wedding (1998), a movie that was being filmed locally.
Named the yearbook's "Best Looking Girl" by senior class vote.
Was the Maxim cover feature for March 2006.
Broke both her wrists playing hockey.
Lived with producer Kevin Mann for a number of years.
Has a black Labrador, who is 11 years old and rescued from Hurricane Katrina [2008].
Aspires to be a stand-up comic.
Has dessert after every meal, even breakfast.
When she was 3 years old, announced to her parents that she was changing her name to "Smurfette".
Helped deliver two babies while doing volunteer work in Brazil.
Fan of Amy Poehler.
Has a "lazy eye" (her right eye) which she demonstrated on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (2005).
Was #24 on FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2008" list.
On her mother's side, she is of Polish descent like her fellow co-star Stephen Tobolowsky, who plays her father on "Heroes" (2006/II).
Ranked #55 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Ranked #4 on Wizard magazine's "Sexiest Women of TV" list (March 2008).
Also attended Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan.
OTHER RANDOM FACTS
• Kristen is appearing in AE Winter Tales - Gifts, a holiday-themed stop-animation short films for American Eagle Outfitters. The digital shorts also featured Lil Jon, Pete Wentz and Adrianne Palicki. It was produced and directed by Milo Ventimiglia. Kristen's co-star from Heroes.
• In 2006, Kristen appeared in a TV commercial for Old Navy.
• Kristen said, during an interview on Jay Leno, that she broke both her wrists while playing hockey.
• She loves animals and often volunteers for animal related charities.
• Kristen is a vegetarian but loves cheese.
• Kristen loves nerds.
• Kristen was offered a recurring role on Lost at the same time that she was offered on Heroes. She chose Heroes in order to stay in Los Angeles.
• The names of her parents are Lorelei and Tom Bell.
• Kristen is an investor in L'Scorpion, a new bar that's turned up the heat on Hollywood Boulevard. Kristen also uses the club for her own private parties.
• Kristen was voted peta2.com's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian" for 2007.
• Kristen was named the Popular Television Actress Most AIM users wanted to Add to Their Buddy Lists, and received the AIM Best TV Buddy award.
• Kristen turned down the lead role in the stage version of the musical Xanadu.
• Kristen's favourite video-games are Mario Kart and James Bond on the Nintendo 64.
• Kristen will be in 'Assassin's Creed', a new video-game by UbiSoft to be released November 2007. Kristen will voice one of the game's characters and her face and body were scanned in 3D for incorporation into the game.
• Kristen may not be back as Veronica Mars since the show is most probably canceled. But Kristen will be back on the CW's new show Gossip Girl as the gossip girl narrator.
• Kristen and her boyfriend now have three dogs. Lola and Mr. Shakes have another playmate.
• Kristen recently bought a new house, which she is renovating to Green standards with the help of new Veronica Mars co-star Ed Begley Jr.
• Kristen drives a Saturn hybrid, as does her character in Veronica Mars.
• Kristen appeared on the CW Network preview show. Her bangs kept getting in her eyes and she said that plot lines for this season are top secret.
• Became a vegetarian at about age 11 because she "couldn't disassociate between hamburger and my dog." Also was traumatized by dry, chewy Detroit pork chops.
• Kristen's favorite TV shows: Extreme Home Makeover, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, America's Funniest Home Videos.
• Kristen was in Polish Wedding, though uncredited. She was a high school senior and the film was shot in her hometown.
• Auditioned for the role of Chloe Sullivan on Smallville, but lost out to Allison Mack.
• She was voted "Best Looking Girl" by her Royal Oak High School senior class.
• As a high school senior, Kristen worked at TCBY in Royal Oak, Michigan.
• Kristen was a celebrity guest for the Superman Returns premiere.
• Her favorite episode of "Veronica Mars" (2004) (as of 2006) is "The Wrath of Con" (Episode 1.4).
• Kristen moved to New York at 18 to go to college.
• Kristen says her sister having a baby is way more important than shooting an episode of Veronica Mars.
• Kristen collects stray animals and shelters them in her home.
• Kristen has blue eyes and blond hair.
• Kristen is 5'1.
• Kristen was recently on the hit MTV series, Punk'd. She was being accused of stealing a dog when she really found it.
• Kristen's astrological sign is a Cancer.
• Kristen played the title role in Sneaux!, the SINsational Gothic Figure Skating Musical on the Los Angeles stage in 2003.
• Kristen played a 13 year old in Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music at Los Angeles' Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Summer 2004.
• Kristen competed in the Emmy Idol competition in 2005's Emmy Award Ceremonies. She sang the theme song from "Fame," in which her Veronica Mars co-star Erica Gimpel appeared.
• Kristen attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan. There she was known as "Annie Bell", because "Annie" was her favorite musical.
• Kristen's parents divorced when she was only two years old.
• Kristen's picture on front of a hockey ticket when she was younger. It was of her and the Stanley Cup. It is the most illustrious prize in hockey.
• If Kristen had to choose between Hockey & Brad Pitt, she would choose Hockey.
• Kristen loves the Detroit Red Wings.
• At an early age Kristen wanted to be called Smurfette and Matthew. Instead they called her by her middle name, Annie.
• When she was younger, she hated being called Kristen.
• As a teen, Kristen appeared in United Way commercials in the greater Detroit area. She reportedly looked much the same at 10 as she does now.
• Kristen made some of her earliest on-screen appearances in Bar Mitzvah videos during her days at Norup Middle School.
• Kristen recently bought a house in L.A. which she shares with her boyfriend, Kevin Mann, a high school swim coach and independent film producer. They have been together for three years.
• Kristin participated and sang at the Los Angeles Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in 2004.
• Kristen had a recent photo op at a dress up affair with Mischa Barton, Rachel Bilson and Olivia Wilde of the rival FOX network. Does this mean that Neptune High is in the O.C.?
• For those interested in seeing Kristen display some dramatic chops, you might keep an eye out for Gracie's Choice which played on Lifetime recently. Knowing that network, the Bell vehicle will be shown again and again. In GC, Kristen plays a high schooler force to fend for herself and her two younger brothers when abandoned by their drug-addicted mom (scarily played by Anne Heche).
• She was in good company in the lower echelons.
• Kristen's dogs, Lola and Mr. Shakes, qualified for an SAG card by appearing in the 'Hot Dogs' episode of Veronica Mars.
