Katey Sagal

Katey Sagal ( born January 19, 1954 in Los Angeles as Catherine Louise Sagal ) is an American actress, voice actress and singer. In the German-speaking world it was known primarily for her roles as Peggy Bundy on the television series Married with Children, as well as Cate Hennessy in Dating My Teenage Daughter.

Life

Katey Sagal comes from a family with famous filmmakers. Her mother Sara Zwilling was first assistant director and singer before she made ​​a name as a director, her father, Boris Sagal, a Russian- Jewish immigrants, was a famous film director ( The Omega Man, The Twilight Zone). Sagals younger twin sisters Liz and Jean (TV series Double Trouble ) are as her younger brother, Joe, also an actor.

At the age of five years Sagal took singing lessons. They sought a career as a singer, but joined in the 1970s, occasionally also as supporting actress in film productions, including in an episode of the film series Columbo under the direction of her father. Later she worked as a background singer for artists such as Bob Dylan, Olivia Newton-John, Gene Simmons and Etta James. As a member of the group "The Harlettes ", a band to Bette Midler, she went on tour with the artist in 1979, before they broke up in the dispute of the formation. From then on she pursued solo projects and performed in nightclubs around Los Angeles with self-written texts in his own show program.

In 1985, she took her acting career in the television series Mary barely noticed, in which they were offered a small supporting role, again. Besides, she accepted an offer of " Los Angeles Theatre Company " in the rock musical Backstreet, which assured her a say in the choreography and the lyrics by contract. In a performance of the musical, a casting agency was aware of them. She got an invitation to audition for the role of Peggy Bundy in the series Married with Children, and finally stood up to about 1,200 actresses. With this role, she gained international fame.

1991 Sagal was pregnant. This was unexpected for the producers of Married with Children, so the pregnancy was written into the storyline of Season 6. In October 1991, a cesarean section was performed at her in the seventh month, which ended in the stillbirth of a daughter. In the series, the pregnancy was then declared as a dream of Al. Two subsequent pregnancies Sagal were then no longer involved in the story of Married with Children.

In 1999, she starred in several episodes of the series The wild seventies the alcohol-dependent Edna, mother of Steven Hyde. It is also the original voice of Turanga Leela from the series Futurama. From 2002 to 2005 she played Cate Hennessy in the ABC sitcom My Teenage Daughter - until his death in 2003 at the side of John Ritter.

On October 2, 2004 Sagal married for the third time. With her ​​current husband, the film producer and actor Kurt Sutter, she has a daughter (* 2007), discharged from a surrogate mother. In addition, two children from a previous marriage.

Since 2008 she plays the role of Gemma Teller Morrow in the series Sons of Anarchy Kurt Sutter of. For this illustration, she was nominated for the 2010 Satellite Award and Television Critics Association Award, 2011, she received the Golden Globe Award.

Sagal took her musical career in 1994 again when they released the album ... Well. Room followed in 2004 and 2013 Covered on which she performed, among other songs by Tom Petty and Jackson Browne. As a singer she is also on the soundtrack album for the series Songs of Anarchy: Music from Sons of Anarchy Seasons 1-4 ( 2011), Sons of Anarchy: Songs of Anarchy Vol II ( 2012) and Sons of Anarchy, Vol 3 (2013 ) to hear.

Filmography

Actress

Voice actor (English )

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