Kristen Bell
Kristen Bell is an actress, philanthropist, children’s book author, and producer whose re-cent acting credits include starring roles in the Amazon Prime comedy film “The People We Hate at the Wedding,” alongside Allison Janney and Ben Platt and Netflix’s parody comedy “The Woman in the House.”
She also recently starred in the NBC series “The Good Place,” opposite Ted Danson, the an-imated Amazon children’s series “Do, Re, & Mi”, and STX Film’s couponing adventure “Queenpins.” In 2019 Bell reprised her role as ‘Anna’ in “Frozen 2,” which has earned over $1.45 billion, surpas-sing the $1.2 billion “Frozen” earned worldwide.
In 2022, Bell was honored as a Disney LEGEND, alongside her “Frozen” castmates, a distinc-tion reserved for those who have made an extraordinary and integral contribution to The Walt Dis-ney Company.
In 2016, Bell was seen as ‘Jeannie Van Der Hooven’ in the Showtime series “House of Lies” opposite Don Cheadle, which wrapped its fifth and final season. In 2014, Bell reprised her beloved title role in Warner Brothers’ film “Veronica Mars," which raised $2 million on Kickstarter in less than eleven hours and broke the record at the time for the fastest project to reach $1 mil-lion and $2 million. She also brought back the role for a revival of the series on Hulu. She ap-peared in a guest-starring arc on NBC’s hit series “Parks & Recreation” and played the lead role in the independent film “The Lifeguard,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
Her other film credits include: “Bad Moms,” “Bad Moms Christmas,” “PANDAS,” “Olaf’s Frozen Adventure,” “Teen Titans Go! to the Movies,” “Like Father,” “CHIPs,” “How To Be A Latin Lover,” “The Lifeguard,” “The Boss,” "Hit & Run," “Movie 43,” “Some Girls,” “Writers,” “Big Mira-cle,” “You Again,” “Burlesque,” “When in Rome,” “Couples Retreat,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Pulse,” “Serious Moonlight” and David Mamet’s “Spartan.” Her television credits include: “Veron-ica Mars,” “Parks & Recreation,” “Unsupervised,” “Deadwood,” “Heroes” and “Party Down.”
Her Broadway credits include “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “The Crucible,” op-posite Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Her Off-Broadway credits include “Reefer Madness” and “A Little Night Music.”
In 2020, Bell became a New York Times bestselling author with the release of her first chil-dren’s book, The World Needs More Purple People, which she co-authored with Benjamin Hart. Bell and Hart made the #1 New York Times Bestseller’s list again this summer with their follow up title, The World Needs More Purple Schools.
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