Actress. Born on November 25, 1971 in Los Angeles, California. Applegate was raised by her actress mother, Nancy Priddy, after Priddy split from Applegate's father, record executive Bobby Applegate. When Christina was three months old, she made her acting debut in her mothers arms on the daytime soap Days of our Lives.
After performing in commercials for KMart and appearing in several movies and TV shows, she received her breakthough role as teen airhead Kelly Bundy on Fox's popular sitcom Married... With Children at age fifteen. After an impressive 11 seasons, the show called it quits in 1997, and Applegate has since successfully distanced herself from her Bundy persona.

In 1998, she starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in the Hong Kong-tinged action-comedy The Big Hit and played the fiancée of a Mob scion in the Mafia parody, Mafia!

Inspired by her experience with her own mother growing up, Applegate returned to TV in 1998 to star as a single mom balancing work and family in the sitcom Jesse. Though the show had bright moments, including a People's Choice award in 1999, it was canceled two years later.

Following an ill-executed return to movies in 2001 with the time-travel comedy Just Visiting, Applegate managed to hold her own opposite some of her more lustrous film peers. She received strong reviews as Cameron Diaz's levelheaded best friend in The Sweetest Thing in 2002, and will appear next with Gwyneth Paltrow in the flight attendant comedy A View From the Top.

Applegate married her longtime boyfriend, actor Johnathan Schaech, in October 2001.