Before attending Shrine, she attended Burton Elementary School and Norup Middle School (now known as Norup International School), a part of the Berkley School District. She attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, where she took part in the drama and music club. Just before her first year of high school, Bell's parents decided to remove her from the public school system. Bell's mother convinced her to go by her middle name, Anne, instead she used the name Annie until high school. īell stated that she did not like her first name at the age of four. Her mother is of Polish descent, and her father has German, Scottish and Irish ancestry. Bell has two stepsisters from her father's second marriage, and three stepsisters and a stepbrother from her mother's second marriage. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. Her mother, Lorelei ( née Frygier), is a registered nurse, and her father, Tom Bell, works as a television news director in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bell garnered further recognition for voicing Princess Anna in the Disney animated films Frozen (2013), Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018), and Frozen II (2019).īell was born on July 18, 1980, in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, where she was raised. She has since appeared in a number of comedy films, including Couples Retreat (2009), When in Rome (2010), You Again (2010), The Boss (2016), Bad Moms (2016), and A Bad Moms Christmas (2017). In film, she had her major breakout film role as the title character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008). In addition, Bell portrayed the lead role in streaming series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window. She starred in the lead role of Eleanor Shellstrop on the critically acclaimed NBC comedy series The Good Place, receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role. Bell also starred as Jeannie van der Hooven, the female lead on the Showtime comedy series House of Lies. She voiced the titular narrator in the teen drama series Gossip Girl, reprising the role in the 2021 sequel. During her time on Veronica Mars, Bell starred as Mary Lane in the musical film Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005), a reprise of the role she had played in the New York musical of the same name.īell starred as Elle Bishop in the superhero drama series Heroes from 2007 to 2008. She reprised the eponymous role in the 2014 film and the 2019 revival. Her first major role was the title character in the teen noir drama television series Veronica Mars (2004–2007), receiving critical acclaim and a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her performance. She later appeared in the action thriller film Spartan (2004) and received praise for her performance in the television drama film Gracie's Choice (2004). Beginning her acting career by starring in stage productions while attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, she made her Broadway stage debut as Becky Thatcher in the comedy musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and appeared in a Broadway revival of The Crucible the following year. Preview two minutes of Frozen Fever music below before the film’s March 13 debut.Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. Read More ‘Frozen’ Characters Return to the Big Screen in New Disney Short (Video) “I made a conscious effort to have the score for Frozen Fever evoke the spirit of the feature film - in fact, the first few bars reprise one of the themes from Frozen,” says Beck, whose upcoming projects include Marvel’s Ant-Man and the adaptation of Charles Schultz’s comic strip Peanuts. “From then on, though, I introduce new material, but it never strays far from its musical ancestor.” In the short, his quirky measures bookend a new birthday-themed song by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez called “Making Today a Perfect Day,” as Anna’s loved ones strive to do onscreen. Jennifer Lopez to Produce 'Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella' Limited Series With Skydance TVĪlong with the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Josh Gad and Jonathan Groff, fans will recognize Beck’s score as he again “used indigenous Scandinavian instruments, to give people a sense of time and place that felt new and unique to Frozen, but with a more traditional symphonic backbone providing that classic Disney feeling,” he explains.
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