Monday, July 2, 2018

The Beauty of Retrospect, July Actress Edition: Kristen Bell

A lot has happened to Kristen Bell since I first featured here in April 2012.


For one thing, she's been married to actor Dax Shepard (best known for his role as Crosby in the TV series ("Parenthood") since 2013, and she appeared with him in TV commercials for Samsung cell phones.  Of course, she's been more successful for another television project - the sitcom "The Good Place," starring our heroine as Eleanor Shellstrop, an amoral woman who dies and arrives in a paradisaical afterlife in which she doesn't belong; she tries to be on her best behavior do she can stay.  She also did numerous episodes of "Parks and Recreation" as a city councilwoman.  (Like her husband's old series "Parenthood," these sitcoms were and are NBC shows.) 


She's also remained active in movies, having voiced the character of Anna in animated Disney movie Frozen, perhaps the the most successful cartoon movie aimed at girls in the twenty-teens, and she revisited her earlier TV series "Veronica Mars" by reprising the title role in a 2014 movie.  Oh, and she 's played one of the lousy mothers in the Bad Moms movies.

I'd better not wait until 2024 to feature Kristen Bell again.  Because if I do, I will clearly miss too much of her incredible career. :-)     

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