Katey Sagal

At 70 years old, Katey Sagal has this physical status:

Catherine Louise Sagal (born January 19, 1954) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.

She is best known for playing Peggy Bundy on Married... with Children, Leela on Futurama, and Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules.

Sagal played with John Ritter until his death, resulting in Sagal's taking over as the series lead for the remainder of the show's run.

Gemma Teller Morrow, the FX series Sons of Anarchy's best Actress – Television Series Drama award winner in 2011, is also known for her role as Gemma Teller Morrow, for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2011.

Early life

Sagal was born in Los Angeles, California, on January 19, 1954, to a show business family with five children. Sara Zwilling, mother, was a producer, and television writer who died of heart disease in 1975, and Boris Sagal, Sagal's father, worked as a television producer. Her father, a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant, immigrated to Ukraine. Her mother was a member of the Amish family line. In 1977, Sagal's father married dancer/actress Marge Champion a few years before his tragic death on the set of the miniseries World War III in 1981. Jean and Liz Sagal's younger twin sisters and brother Joey Sagal are actors; her older brother David Sagal is an actor married to actress McNally Sagal. Sagal and her siblings grew up in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

Norman Lear, a comedy producer and writer, is her godfather. Katey and Norman confirmed in 2016 that she wasn't only her goddaughter, but that her parents and her father told each other. Sagal has referred to herself as "culturally Jewish," but she has no "formal religious experience."

Sagal graduated from Palisades High School. She attended the California Institute of the Arts after graduation.

Personal life

Sagal was married to musician Freddie Beckmeier from 1978 to 1981, Jack White from 1993 to 2000. Kurt Sutter married writer-producer Kurt Sutter in a private ceremony on October 2, 2004, at their Los Angeles home. Esmé Louise, the child's niece, was born in 2007 through a gestational carrier.

Sagal discovered she was pregnant while working on Married...with Children in 1991. This was unexpected, so the pregnancy was written into the show's storyline. However, she had to have an emergency caesarean section in her seventh month of pregnancy, resulting in the loss of a child. The pregnancy on the show was then treated as a "dream sequence," something that was only mentioned briefly at the end of the episode "Al Bundy, Shoe Dick." Sagal and White eventually had two children, one daughter, Sarah Grace in 1994, and a son, Jackson James White, in 1996. Married... with Children's authors deliberately did not write Sagal's two later pregnancies into the script due to the earlier stillbirth, opting instead to list her absences in a subpoena in which Peg is travelling around the world to reunite her parents. Sagal had her midsection obscured in scenes where Peg was shown, such as in a taxi or at a craps table in Las Vegas, and she was often seen or heard talking to family members over the phone.

One after Sagal's death of her stillborn child inspired her to write "You Can't Hurry the Harvest." Well..., she released this song on her debut album, which was released in April 1994.

She appeared in an episode of the television genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? In 2016, the earliest human beings on record became the largest in the United States.

Sagal was struck by a car while crossing a street in Los Angeles on October 14, 2021. She was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where she was released the next day.

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Musical career

Sagal began her show business as a singer and songwriter. She appeared on stage for many artists in 1973, including Bob Dylan, Etta James, and Tanya Tucker. She contributed to the album Moon in 1976 as a member of The Group with No Name (on which she was credited as "Katie Sagal")). She was a member of Bette Midler's back-up team The Harlettes in 1978 and 1981 to 1983.

Sagal appeared at The Central during the filming of 1983's Valley Girl. Her name can be seen in the upcoming performances' schedule, which is also displayed inside the door.

On the self-titled Gene Simmons solo album Take No Prisoners, Molly Hatchet's album Take No Prisoners, and Olivia Newton-John's 1985 hit "Soul Kiss," she appeared backing vocals. In the film Silent Rage starring Chuck Norris, she performed the song "It's the Time for Love." Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd appeared in "Loose Cannons," Sagal's theme song for the 1990 film of the same name.

Sagal's first solo album, Well..., was released on April 19, 1994, and she then appeared on June 1, 2004. She has also contributed to the Sons of Anarchy soundtrack.

Acting career

In the detective Columbo's "Candidate for Crime," which was supervised by her father, one of the roles was as a receptionist. In the series Mary (1985–86) starring Mary Tyler Moore, Sagal's first big role was as a newspaper columnist. Peggy Bundy was cast on the sitcom Married... with Children (1987–1997), a female shoe salesman whose role was to be portrayed as Peggy Bundy. The series lasted for 11 years. Sagal brought her own red bouffant wig to audition for the role, and the production's permission brought the look into the role. Sagal later confessed that she had styled her own hair, but that as the show began, the designers began investing in a wig.

Several more television films were released after Married... with Children's Parents' conclusion, and Sagal also appeared on the children's film Recess as the voice of Spinelli's mother. In his science-fiction animated comedy Futurama, Matt Groening selected her to play the purple-haired mutant spaceship captain, Leela. The show attracted a following, but it was canceled after four seasons. Nevertheless, syndication on Adult Swim and Comedy Central raised the show's fame and led to Comedy Central's acquisition of a season of Futurama direct-to-DVD films, which was later redirected as a 16-episode fifth season. In the sixth season, which premiered on June 24, 2010, she reprised her role as Leela in these films. In 2013, the series came to an end. In three episodes of That '70s Show, Sagal appeared as Edna Hyde, Steven Hyde's mother. In 2000, she appeared in the short-lived NBC sitcom Tucker.

In the sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter in 2002, Sagal was depicted as the wife of John Ritter. Ritter had only three episodes of the second season before his death, but the program was ended in 2005 after its third season.

Sagal appeared on Lost in 2005 and 2006 as Helen Norwood. She appeared in The Winner's season finale as Glen Abbot's former tutor, with whom Glen has his first sexual encounter.

Gemma Teller Morrow appeared on the television show Sons of Anarchy, which was created by Kurt Sutter, four years before the series premiered in 2008. Sagal reunited with David Faustino (who had played her son Bud Bundy in Married... with Children) for an episode of Faustino's show Star-Vid in January 2009. She appeared on Lost twice more in 2010. She appeared in the film House Broken with Danny DeVito in 2009. In 2010, she appeared in Randy Newman's musical Harps & Angels.

Nancy Abrams, Artie Abrams' mother, appeared on Glee in 2013. Hailee Steinfeld's mother appeared in Pitch Perfect 2, which appeared in 2015 as the mother of Hailee Steinfeld's character. Vinny Pazienza's mother appeared in Bleed for This as the mother of Vinny Pazienza's biography.

Sagal made his Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 9, 2014; the majority of the Married... with Children cast members including Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, and David Faustino were on hand to celebrate the actor's recognition.

Susan, Penny's mother, appeared on The Big Bang Theory on September 20, 2016. She had previously appeared on 8 Simple Rules as the mother of Cuoco's character.

Sagal appeared on CBS sitcom Superior Donuts from 2017 to 2018. She appeared on Shameless as Frank's newest, cynical lover.

Louise Goldufski, Dan Conner's love interest, has appeared in The Conners and a cameo appearance in Netflix's The Conners and a cameo appearance in season 2, episodes 9 and ten as Judy Hale's (Linda Cardellini) estranged, emotionally abusive, imprisoned mother Eleanor Hale.

Sagal appeared in Annie "Rebel" Bello in the ABC drama series Rebel, which was written by Krista Vernoff in 2021. After ten episodes, ABC cancelled Rebel.

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