Kristen Johnston

Kristen Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.


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Early life

Johnston is of English descent and was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of a real estate agent and a Republican state senator from Wisconsin. Johnston was raised mostly in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, where she attended St. Eugene's Catholic Grade School and Whitefish Bay High School. She spent some of her teen years as an exchange student in Sweden and in South America. She earned a B.F.A. degree in drama at New York University.
[edit]Career

Johnston made her professional stage debut with New York's Atlantic Theater Company, which was founded by playwright David Mamet. During her association with that company, she appeared in such productions as As You Like It, Girl's Talk, Stage Door, Author's Voice, Portrait of a Woman and Rosemary for Remembrance. She teaches acting at New York University.
She has performed with the Naked Angels Theatre Company in The Stand-In and Hot Keys, and with New York Stage and Film in Kim's Sister, with David Strathairn and Jane Adams. For her performance in The Lights at Lincoln Center Theatre, Johnston was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Best Supporting Actress. The show brought her to the attention of a Carsey-Werner television executive. After numerous auditions in 1996 for the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun, she won the role of Sally Solomon. She starred in the series from 1996-2001 along with John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and the role earned her two Emmy Awards for best supporting actress in a comedy series.
Johnston made her feature film debut in The Debt, winner of Best Short at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In 1995, she played Kate in Backfire. Other television credits include guest-starring roles on the series Chicago Hope, Hearts Afire, and The Five Mrs. Buchanans. She was also the narrator in Microscopic Milton on the Disney Channel. Her significant roles in commercially-successful movies included Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me in 1999, Austin Powers in Goldmember in 2002 and Music and Lyrics in 2007.
In 1998, she was a spokesmodel for the Clairol company, as well as appearing on the Bad Religion's No Substance album cover.[3]
Johnston appeared in the sixth and final season of Sex and the City. In the episode entitled "Splat!", her character, Lexi Featherston, an aging party girl, accidentally falls out of a window and dies, prompting Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) to reexamine her life. In 2005, Johnston featured in six episodes of NBC's ER. She was cast as Patsy in a proposed American remake of the British TV show, Absolutely Fabulous but the series was never picked up by a network. She appeared in a recurring role in the 2009 season of Ugly Betty and had a single episode appearance as a dominatrix in the second season opener of Bored to Death.
Since 2009 she teaches acting at NYU. She also mentors local girls from New York City on self-esteem issues.[citation needed]
[edit]Work

[edit]Filmography
The Orkly Kid (1985)
Amazonia (1992)
The Debt (1993)
Backfire! (1995)
London Suite (1996) (TV)
3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) (TV)
Microscopic Milton (1997) (TV)
Nobody Knows Anything (1998)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
Sex and the City (2004) (TV)
ER (2005) (TV)
Strangers with Candy (2005)
Music and Lyrics (2007)
Bride Wars (2009)
The New Adventures of Old Christine (2009) (TV)
Finding Bliss (2009)
Ugly Betty (2009–2010) (TV)
Bored to Death (2010) (TV)
[edit]Stage
The Lights (1993)
The Women (2002)
Aunt Dan and Lemon (2004)
The Baltimore Waltz (2004) Signature Theatre Company
Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare in the Park
The Skin of Our Teeth Shakespeare in the Park
Scarcity (2007)
"Love Song" (Nov 2006 - Feb 2007)
The Understudy (2008) Williamstown Theater Festival
So Help Me God! (2009) Mint Theatre Company
References from Wikipedia.com