Christina Applegate considers that her work in front of the cameras has finished since she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She strove to finish Dead to Me, the last season of which she shot after receiving the diagnosis and after a production break that allowed her to get psyched up about her new life. She now tries to lead the calmest life possible, since she cannot carry out daily actions such as going down the stairs and going into the shower is "terrifying", as she explained in Vanity Fair magazine.
And, waiting to see if she can stay connected to the industry through voice acting, with an animated series of Married with children pending to receive the green light from the studios, here are the most memorable works that the actress The 51-year-old left the public throughout his career, which began when he was three months old and made an appearance on the soap opera Los días de nuestra vida.
Jen's husband is killed in a hit-and-run. The vehicle involved in the accident hits the road and Jen, eaten away by her rage at having to raise her daughters alone, attends grief counseling. It is there that she meets Judy, who tries to start a friendship with Jen and who hides her own secrets from her. The tandem formed by Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini is one of the great female face to face of recent audiovisual, moving through the field of black comedy.
"I'll probably never work in front of the camera again but I'm delighted to have gone with someone who is by far the best actress I've ever worked with, not to mention the best human being I've ever met." he said of his work with her. So far, the role of her has earned Applegate two Emmy nominations, waiting to see if voters will remember her for the work she did in her final season.
When you play the same sitcom character in 259 episodes, you can assume you're a piece of television history. Married with children helped to consolidate FOX in the United States, which at that time had just begun its broadcasts as a generalist channel, and the critics were not kind to the sitcom with a live audience, accusing the project of being rude and overacted. Interestingly, none of its actors were ever Emmy nominated while Roseanne, Murphy Brown, or The Golden Girls garnered television academy votes.
This didn't stop Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal and Christina Applegate from being so successful both with Married With Children and in their subsequent careers. Among other roles, O'Neill ended up as the patriarch of Modern Family and Sagal was the Shakespearean mother of Sons of Anarchy and, along with David Faustino, the four members of the Bundy family are set to reprise their roles in the animated version of the series.
Samantha is run over, falls into a coma and, when she wakes up, she has retrograde amnesia: she remembers general knowledge, which does not prevent her from practicing as a lawyer, but she does not remember who she is as a person or anything related to her life. His disappointment in her? Finding out that she was a terrible person. With Samantha, what?, Christina Applegate had a tailor-made character that allowed her to be nominated for an Emmy for best actress in a comedy for the two seasons of it. And good performances were not lacking.
Jean Smart, who is now taking Hacks by storm, won an Emmy for playing her mother in a cast that also featured Melissa McCarthy before becoming a box office phenomenon. Now all that remains is for Disney, which does have it in its American catalogue, to allow it to be seen legally in Spain.
Scriptwriter Emily Spivey discovered the difficulties of working as a scriptwriter for Saturday night live and taking care of her baby, so she proposed to Lorne Michaels, the legendary producer of the comedy show, a series about this impossible family reconciliation. In Up all night, which was translated in Spain as Sin winking eye, Christina Applegate is the producer of a program similar to Oprah Winfrey's while she faces motherhood.
This project, which lasted two seasons, was interesting for the moment in which Applegate starred in it: in September 2011, she premiered a series on motherhood when eight months earlier she herself had premiered as a mother. Will Arnett (Arrested Development) played her husband while Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids) was the TV diva she had to deal with on a daily basis. Without sleeping a wink, which aired on the Cosmo channel, is another of the lost series in the streaming era.
The only Emmy in Christina Applegate's showcase is not the result of her longest-lived works but of an episodic performance: as Amy Green, the fictional sister of Jennifer Aniston in Friends. Her first intervention was in the ninth season and her second and last was in the tenth, always showing that she could be a worse person than Rachel counted.
Interestingly, Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, her other sister on Friends, said they needed Applegate to participate in The Morning Show, her current series, to finish reuniting the Green sisters, who never met on screen in Friends. If Applegate wants to resume her job, she already knows where her doors are open.
