Katey Sagal Biography
Catherine Louise Sagal is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for playing Peggy Bundy on Married… with Children, Leela on Futurama, Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules and Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons of Anarchy, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for the Best Actress- Television series Drama in 2011.
How old is Katey Sagal? – Age
The American actress is 67 years old as of 19th January 2021. She was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Who are Katey Sagal Parents? – Father and Mother
The American actress’s mother was known as, Sara Zwilling, was a singer, producer, and television writer who died of heart disease in 1975. Her father was, Boris Sagal, was a Ukrainian- Jewish immigrant who worked as a television director. In 1977, Sagal’s father married dancer/actress Marge Champion, a few years before his accidental death on the set of the miniseries World War III in 1981.
Katey Sagal Siblings
The actress was born in Los Angeles, California, to a show business family with five children. Sagal and her siblings grew up in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Three of her four siblings are actors: her younger twin sisters, Jean and Liz Sagal and brother Joey Sagal; her other brother David Sagal is an attorney married to actress McNally Sagal. Her godfather is prominent sitcom producer and writer Norman Lear.
Who is Katey Sagal Married to? – Spouse
The actress is a married woman. She is currently married to Kurt Sutter, a writer-producer in a private ceremony on October 2, 2004, at their home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Los Feliz. They have a daughter, Esmé Louise, born in 2007 through a gestational carrier. Sagal before she was married to musician Freddie Beckmeier, from 1978 to 1981 and Jack White, from 1993 to 2000. One of her child was born stillbirth. She has three children. Two children was from her second husband, White- a daughter, Sarah Grace and a son, Jackson James.
Katey Sagal Career
The American singer started her career in show business as a singer and songwriter. In 1973, she worked as a backing Vocalist for various singers, including Bob Dylan, Etta James and Tanya Tucker. In 1976, while a member of The Group With No Name, she contributed to the album Moon over Brooklyn. During the filming of 1983’s Valley Girl, Sagal was scheduled to sing at The Central. Her name can be seen in the schedule of upcoming acts, posted inside the door.
She performed backing vocals on the Self-titled Gene Simmons Solo album, the Molly Hatchet album Take No Prisoners, and on Olivia Newton-John’s 1985 single “soul Kiss.” On April 19, 1994, Sagal released her first solo album, Well… On June 1, 2004, she released her second album, Room. She has also contributed to the Sons of Anarchy
The actress’s first major role was as a newspaper columnist in the series Mary(1985–86) starring Mary Tyler Moore. This led to her being cast as Peggy Bundy on the sitcom Maried… with Children (1987–1997); she portrayed the lower-class, sex-starved, lazy and free-spending wife of shoe salesman Al Bundy. The series ran for 11 years.
It had been reported that Sagal brought her own red bouffant wig to audition for the role, and with the producers’ approval, the look transitioned into the show. In 1998, Matt Groening chose her to provide the character voice of the purple-haired mutant spaceship captain, Leela, in his science-fiction animated comedy Futurama.
However, syndication on Adult Swim and Comedy Central increased the show’s popularity and led Comedy Central to commission a season of Futurama direct-to-DVD films, which the network later retransmitted as a 16-episode fifth season. She reprised her role as Leela in these films, and in the sixth season that began airing June 24, 2010. The series ended in 2013. Sagal guest-starred as Edna Hyde, Steven Hyde’s mother, in three episodes of That ’70s Show. She starred in the short-lived NBC sitcom Tucker in 2000.
The actress was cast as the wife of John Ritter in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating M Teenage Daughter in 2002. Ritter had completed only three episodes of the second season before his death, and the show was cancelled in 2005 after its third season.
In 2005 and 2006, Sagal made two appearances on Lost as Helen Norwood. In 2007, she had a role in the season finale of The Winner as Glen Abbot’s former teacher, with whom Glen has his first sexual experience.
From 2008 to 2014, the actress starred as Gemma Teller Morrow on the TV show Sons of Anarchy, whose creator, Kurt Sutter, she had married in 2004, four years before the series premiered. In January 2009, she reunited with David Faustino (who had played her son Bud Bundy in Married… with Children) for an episode of Faustino’s show star-ving.
In 2010, she appeared twice more on Lost. In 2009, she starred in the film House Broken with Danny DeVito. In 2010, she returned to the stage in Randy Newman’s musical Harps & Angels. In 2013, the acteress had a cameo on Glee as Nancy Abrams, Artie Abrams’ mother. She co-starred in Pitch Perfect 2, released in 2015, as the mother of Hailee Steinfeld’s character. She next appeared in the biography drama film Bleed for This, as the mother of Vinny Pazienza.
On September 20, 2016, the actress appeared on The Big Bang Theory as Susan, the mother of Penny. She had previously played the mother of Cuoco’s character on 8 Simple Rules. Sagal was also a series regular on the CBS sitcom superior Donuts from 2017 to 2018. She appeared on Shameless as Frank’s latest, crazy lover.
Most recently she has appeared in a recurring role as Dan Conner’s love interest, Louise, in The Conners and a cameo appearance in the Netflix series Dead to Me in season 2, episodes 9 and 10. as Judy Hale’s estranged, emotionally abusive, incarcerated mother Eleanor Hale.
In 2021, Sagal will play in the lead role of Annie “Rebel” Bello in the ABC drama series Rebel, which was written by Krista Vernoff.
Katey Sagal Net worth
The American actress has an estimated net worth of $ 30 million as of 2021.
