Kristen Johnston

Infobox actor
name = Kristen Johnston

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birthdate = birth date and age|1967|9|20
location = Washington, D.C., United States
emmyawards = Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
1997 "3rd Rock from the Sun"
1999 "3rd Rock from the Sun"

Kristen A. Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American Emmy Award-winning stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her Emmy Award winning role as Sally Solomon in the television series "3rd Rock from the Sun". She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in the sequel to the live-action movie adaptation of "The Flintstones" animated series. Johnston is also known for her tall 6 ft (1.83 m) frame and relatively deep voice for an actress. In 2005, Johnston was also featured in six episodes of NBC's "ER".

Biography

Early life

Johnston was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of a real estate agent and a Republican state senator from Wisconsin. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/72/Kristen-Johnston.html Kristen Johnston Biography (1967-) ] ] Johnston was raised mostly in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, although she spent some of her teen years as an exchange student in Sweden and in South America. She earned a B.F.A. degree in drama at New York University.

Career

Johnston made her professional stage debut with New York's Atlantic Theater Company, which was founded by playwright David Mamet. During her association with that company, she appeared in such productions as "As You Like It", "Girl's Talk", "Stage Door", "Author's Voice", "Portrait of a Woman", and "Rosemary for Remembrance".

In addition, she performed with the Naked Angels Theatre Company in "The Stand-In" and "Hot Keys", and with New York Stage and Film in "Kim's Sister", with David Strathairn and Jane Adams.

For her performance in "The Lights" at Lincoln Center Theatre, Johnston was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Best Supporting Actress. The show brought her to the attention of a Carsey-Werner television executive. After numerous auditions in 1996 for the TV series "3rd Rock from the Sun", she won the role of Sally Solomon, the alien lieutenant and security officer posing as a sexy female human in Ohio. She starred in the series from 1996-2001 along with John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Johnston made her feature film debut in "The Debt", winner of Best Short at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In 1995, she played Kate in "Backfire". Other television credits include guest-starring roles on the series "Chicago Hope", "Hearts Afire", and "The Five Mrs. Buchanans". She was also the narrator in "Microscopic Milton" on the Disney Channel. Her significant roles in commercially-successful movies included "" in 1999 and "Austin Powers in Goldmember" in 2002.

In 1998, she was a spokesmodel for the Clairol company, as well as appearing on the Bad Religion's "No Substance" album cover. [ [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0005060/bio Kristen Johnston Biography on IMDB] ] Johnston appeared in the sixth and final season of "Sex and the City". In the episode entitled "Splat!", she plays Lexi Featherston, an aging party girl. After the character accidentally falls out of a window and dies, Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) reexamines her life and decides to move to Paris with Aleksandr Petrovsky (played by Mikhail Baryshnikov).

Work

Filmography

*" Music and Lyrics " (2007)
*" ER " (2005)
*" Strangers with Candy " (2005)
*" Sex and the City " (2004) (TV)
*"Miffy" (2003, narrator)
*" Austin Powers in Goldmember " (2002)
*" Stage On Screen: The Women " (2002) (TV)
*" The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas " (2000)
*" " (1999)
*" Nobody Knows Anything "(1998)
*" Microscopic Milton " (1997) (TV)
*" London Suite " (1996) (TV)
*" 3rd Rock from the Sun " (1996-2001) (TV)
*" Backfire! " (1995)
*" The Debt " (1993)
*" Amazonia " (1992)
*" The Orkly Kid " (1985)

tage

*" Scarcity " (2007)
*" Much Ado About Nothing " Shakespeare in the Park
*" Aunt Dan and Lemon " (2004)
*" The Women " (2002)
*" The Lights " (1993)

She has a dog named Piggy.

References

External links

*ibdb|84242
*imdb|0005060
* [http://www.theatre.com/story/id/3005072 2006 Interview with Kristen Johnston on Theatre.com]
* [http://americantheatrewing.org/downstagecenter/detail/kristen_johnston Kristen Johnston "Downstage Center" interview] at American Theatre Wing, October 2007
* [http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=Kristen+Johnston&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2 Kirsten Johnston Images (Google) ]