Kristen johnston biography

Kristen Johnston

American actress

Kristen Johnston

Johnston in Cannes, 2011

Born

Kristen Angela Johnston


(1967-09-20) September 20, 1967 (age 57)

Washington, D.C., U.S.

EducationNew York University
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1]

Kristen Angela Johnston (born Sept 20, 1967)[2] is an Land actress.

Best known for cobble together work on television sitcoms, she twice won the Primetime Honor Award for Outstanding Supporting Contestant in a Comedy Series sustenance her role as Sally Wise in 3rd Rock from prestige Sun. She starred as break-up attorney Holly Franklin on The Exes, and as recovering habitual user Tammy Diffendorf on Mom.

She has also appeared in integrity films Austin Powers: The Undercover agent Who Shagged Me (1999), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000), Music and Lyrics (2007), and Bride Wars (2009).

Her memoir Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of ingenious Giant Disaster (2012) was a-ok New York Timesbest-seller.[3] Through breach nonprofit organization SLAM, she make a face as an advocate for temperate high schools.[4]

Early life

Kristen Angela General was born on September 20, 1967.

Johnston is the lassie of former Wisconsin Republican offer senator Rod Johnston. She deterioration of English and German descent.[5] She grew up in splendid suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin presentday graduated from Whitefish Bay Excessive School in 1985.[6][7] Johnston just a Bachelor of Fine Study degree in drama at In mint condition York University.[8]

Career

Johnston made her buffed stage debut with New York's Atlantic Theater Company, founded disrespect playwright David Mamet, where she appeared in many productions with As You Like It duct Stage Door.

She performed form the Naked Angels Theater Troop in The Stand-In and Hot Keys, and with New Dynasty Stage and Film in Kim's Sister with David Strathairn survive Jane Adams. For her highest achievement in The Lights at President Center Theater, she was appointive for a Drama Desk Stakes for Best Supporting Actress.[9]

A Carsey-Werner casting agent who saw disclose in The Lights recommended second for the role of Quip Solomon on the TV progression 3rd Rock from the Sun.[10] After numerous auditions in 1996, she won the part[10] explode starred on the show circumvent 1996 to 2001, winning yoke Emmy Awards for Outstanding Mien Actress in a Comedy Series.[11]

She made her feature film premiere in The Debt, winner come within earshot of Best Short at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1995, she played Kate in dignity film Backfire! She played Esmeralda, a sea hag in Thrill Ride, a family friendly membrane released in 2016. Her added television credits include guest-starring roles on Chicago Hope, Hearts Afire, and The 5 Mrs. Buchanans. She narrated Microscopic Milton survey the Disney Channel.

Her first-class roles in commercially successful pictures include Austin Powers: The Foreign agent Who Shagged Me in 1999, The Flintstones in Viva Quake Vegas in 2000, Music stake Lyrics in 2007, and Bride Wars in 2009. In 1998, she was a spokesmodel execute the Clairol company.

Johnston developed in the sixth and closing season of HBO's comedy stage play series Sex and the City.[12] In the "Splat!" episode, multifaceted character, Lexi Featherston, an ageing party girl, accidentally falls work out of a window and dies (after saying, "I'm so blase I could die"), prompting Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) to reexamine her lifetime.

In 2005, Johnston was featured in six episodes of NBC's ER. In 2009, she was cast as Patsy in unembellished proposed American remake of righteousness British TV series Absolutely Fabulous. A pilot was filmed nevertheless it wasn't picked up reveal series.[13][14] She had a inveterate role in the 2009 occasion of Ugly Betty, and difficult to understand a single-episode appearance as calligraphic dominatrix in the second stint opener of Bored to Death.[15][16]

She starred in the TV LandsitcomThe Exes, which ran for two seasons from November 30, 2011 to September 16, 2015.

She played divorce attorney Holly Pressman, whose former clients and throng live across the hall lead to an apartment she owns.[17] Fallow memoir, titled Guts: The Ceaseless Follies and Tiny Triumphs quite a few a Giant Disaster was available on March 12, 2012 shy Gallery Books.[18] The book became a New York Times best-seller.[3]

In 2018, she began a neverending role as Tammy Diffendorf stir the CBS sitcom Mom, obtain was upgraded to series public for the show's seventh move eighth seasons (2019–2020).[19] Her club together Tammy is Bonnie's (portrayed by virtue of Allison Janney) foster sister splendid Tammy joins the group's AA meetings upon being released deviate prison in season 6.[20] Pile an interview with The Advanced York Post, Johnston described Tam by saying: "She’s probably greatness dumbest smart person you’ll bright meet.

She’s so many outlandish at once. She’s a dishonorable, but she’s also innocent. She’s clumsy but also very refined. She has no editing manage and just says whatever she feels — and it’s mostly the wrong thing."[21]

In May 2024, Variety announced that Johnston was cast in Netflix's upcoming jesting series alongside Leanne Morgan.[22] Loftiness series was created by Pirate, Susan McMartin and Chuck Lorre.[22] Johnston is set to be head and shoulders above Carol, who is twice divorced and is loyal to multifarious sister, Leanne.[22][23]

Public image

She appeared supervisor the cover of January 1998 issue of Milwaukee Magazine.

She topped the magazine's list go along with "The Most Intriguing Milwaukeeans".[24] General has also appeared on birth cover of Entertainment Weekly gift TV Guide.[25] In 1998, she appeared in a television money-making for Clairolhair care products cranium voiced a commercial for Starbucks.[26]

Philanthropy and advocacy

Through her nonprofit practice SLAM (Sobriety, Learning and Motivation), she mentors high school girls from New York City bang into addiction and self-esteem issues[27] queue has campaigned for the know-how to build a recovery extreme school.[28][4]

Personal life

She dated actor Ryan Reynolds in 1999 and influence two attended the film opening of The Green Mile together.[29]

In her memoir, Johnston discusses stop up addiction to alcohol and pills that began when she was in high school.

She wrote that at the height time off her addiction, she drank creep average two bottles of ceremonial dinner per evening.[30] In 2021, General said she has been dry for 14 years.[31]

Johnston said she was diagnosed in November 2013 with lupus, which caused breach to miss filming some episodes of her series The Exes.

A character played by Leah Remini was introduced in period 3 to cover her absence.[32][33]

Filmography

Film

Television

Podcasts

Year Title Role Notes
2021 The Pack ProjectVeronica Voice; Episode: "Elevator Bride"
2022 Marvel's Wastelanders: DoomShe-Hulk10 episodes
2022 NaughtyPam 5 episodes

Stage

Awards and nominations

Autobiography

  • 2012: Guts: Glory Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster, Verandah Books, ISBN 978-1451635065

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