Christina Applegate Bio, Height, Weight, Age, Measurements

American actress Christina Applegate is best known for her memorable performances on the television series Married With Children, but in fact she has also had some notable supporting roles in movies and other theater work. Born in segregated South Carolina as the youngest of four children, Christina Applegate grew up in a household where race was an issue. Her mother, a school teacher, taught her daughter to color her eyes whenever she felt like getting angry about something. Later on, Christina began to develop a bold, dramatic style of dressmaking that would lead her to study acting in New York City. She went on to spend five years at the University of Southern California where she became known for her distinctive voice and distinctive features.

Christina Applegate’s breakout role would be in the national lampoon sequel Vacation, as the irrepressible Norma Strickland. Applegate’s ability to draw laughs from her characters’ obliviousness to their own sense of humor was apparent in the character’s exaggerated pronunciation. Applegate also had the opportunity to play a more traditionally positive character in the equally successful Finding Nemo, while her notable role as Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story 3 lent her a greater range of appeal. She next featured in the critically acclaimed independent film After Gravity, which earned her both an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe Awards for her work as the silent screen goddess of silent films.

Following the end of the Vacation franchise, Applegate concentrated on developing her love affair with her fellow co-writer, Johnathon Schaech. The two worked on a number of short stories and one of them, titled What Happened to the Mouse, was the basis for the hugely successful film Finding Nemo. Their subsequent works, including the TV show Wilfred, Always, and the Sundance Channel miniseries Man on the Moon: The Inside Story, cemented Christina Applegate’s reputation in Hollywood as an accomplished and versatile screenwriter and actress. In the midst of all of this work, Applegate finally ventured into the realm of movie development, writing the treatment for Selma. It’s the film that defined Applegate’s approach to screenwriting, using very close and intimate detail to tell the story of Martin Luther King’s historic movement.

Applegate’s penchant for choosing complex characters and her realistic portrayal of the inner turmoil of a human soul also earned her many honors and awards, most notably the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, which she shared with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. For many people who compare Christina Applegate’s TV screenplays to those of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, however, what they fail to recognize is that the strength of a person’s sense of humor is often derived from the depth of their own personal life. Just like these two celebrities, Applegate has achieved a high level of personal success and, perhaps because of that, she is able to laugh at herself in her movies. In the case of Selma, Applegate manages to laugh at the lead character’s white-hot anger even as she simultaneously empathizes with him.

If you have read Christina Applegate’s book, You Are Rich And Don’t Know It, you are undoubtedly aware of her love for riding motorcycles and her long history of being a Harley Davidson enthusiast. Because of this, you probably expect her to offer up her love of Harley Davidson in her acting, but Applegate instead offers up her own salary. Asking her about her approach to earning a large salary is like asking a major league baseball player how he prepares every day before playing the game. The answer is actually more complicated than that, but we’ll save that for another Christina Applegate Net Worth article. Instead, let’s look at her other attempts to make a name for herself on the big screen.

Applegate’s first major role was opposite Gene Hackman in the film Vanilla Sky, in which she was cast as an aging, yet beautiful woman who had a secret love of aviation. The film did not do very well at the box office, but it was a critical and commercial success for Universal Studios home video. After that, Applegate appeared in several more comedies, including Dances With Machines, Pretty Woman, and finally the national lampoon sequel Vacation, which was poorly received by audiences. Once again, Christina Applegate was not able to meet expectations, and though the film did earn her a second Oscar nomination (for Best Original Screenplay), the movie failed to make a hit with audiences. However, as a television actor, Christina Applegate still has work to do; as of late, she has been seen on shows such as FX’s It’s Always Sunny In New York, and she has also signed on to produce and perform in a video for Funny Or Die’s “Funniest Home Videos” series.