Kristen Anne Bell is a famous American singer and actress. She started her professional acting career by appearing on stage productions while attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Kristen Bell made her Broadway debut in the comedy musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She played the role of Becky Thatcher. Kristen Bell also made an appearance in the 2004 action thriller flick, Spartan. After Kristen Bell appeared on the TV movie, Gracie’s Choice, Kristen Bell received a lot of critical acclaim.

Kristen Bell played the titular character in the noir drama series Veronica Mars which ran between 2004 and 2007. Kristen Bell even won the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her role in Veronica Mars. for the 2014 Veronica Mars film, Kristen Bell reprised her role and continued the same for the 2019 show revival. Kristen Bell also appeared in the famous sci-fi drama Heroes between 2007 and 2008. She played the role of Elle Bishop on the show. Kristen Bell also voiced the narrator in the famous teen drama show Gossip Girl. She did that role between 2007 and 2012.

Kristen Bell’s breakthrough role came in the 2008 movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, where she played the titular character. Since then, Kristen Bell has gone on to appear in a slew of hit comedy movies like Couples Retreat, When in Rome, You Again, The Boss, Bad Moms, and A Bad Moms Christmas. Kristen Bell also voiced the character of Princess Anna in the superhit disney animated movies Frozen, Ralph Breaks the Internet , and Frozen II, along with the short films Frozen Fever  and Olaf’s Frozen Adventure.

From 2012 to 2016, Kristen Bell also starred on the House of Lies, a comedy show on Showtime. She played the role of Jeannie van der Hooven. Between the years 2016 and 2020, Kristen Bell also starred as Eleanor Shellstrop on The Good Place, a hit comedy series on NBC. Kristen Bell also received a Golden Globe nomination for her role on the show. As a result of her very successful acting career, Kristen Bell’s net worth as of 2020 is $20 million.

Kristen Bell: Net Worth, Life and Career

When was Kristen Bell born?

Kristen Bell was born on July 18th, 1980, in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Kristen Bell spent her childhood in that place. Kristen Bell’s mother’s name is Lorelei Bell and she is a registered nurse. Kristen Bell’s father Tom Bell, is a television director in Las Vegas. Unfortunately for Kristen Bell, her parents divorced when she was just two. Her father remarried soon after that. Kristen Bell has two stepsisters through that. Kristen Bell also ended up getting four half siblings from her mother’s second marriage. Kristen Bell’s father has Irish, German and Scottish ancestry while her mother has Polish roots.

Where did Kristen Bell study?

Kristen Bell’s parents removed her from the public school system before her freshman year in high school. Kristen Bell attended the Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak. Kristen Bell was an active member of the music and drama club. While Kristen Bell was in school, she starred in plays such as The Wizard of Oz, as Dorothy Gale, and also appeared in productions of Fiddler on the Roof (1995), Lady, Be Good (1996), and Li’l Abner (1998). Kristen Bell graduated from high school in 1998. A senior class vote named her the Best Looking Girl in the yearbook. stated that she did not like her first name at the age of four. 

Upon graduating from high school, Kristen Bell moved to New York City and attended the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Kristen Bell earned her major in musical theater. Kristen Bell dropped out of college (she was just a few credits shy of graduation) when she landed a role in the Broadway version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 2001.

Kristen Bell: Acting Career

Kristen Bell started her acting career in 1992 after winning the role of a banana and a tree in ‘Raggedy Ann and Andy’. With an agent’s help, she appeared in many advertisements and television commercials.

She won her first credited but insignificant role in ‘Pootie Tang’.

2002 saw her in ‘The Crucible’, a Broadway revival, with Liam Neeson and Angela Bettis. During the same year, Kristen Bell moved to Los Angeles, California to enhance her acting career. She reprised her role in 2005’s ‘Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical’ as Mary Lane. In September of the same year, she rendered the theme song from ‘Fame’ on the 57th ‘Annual Primetime Emmy Awards’. 

The 2006 movie ‘Pulse’, a remake of the Japanese horror film ‘Kairo’, saw her in the lead role of Mattie. Though the film grossed US $27.9 million worldwide, it was not well received by critics.

In 2012, she starred in ‘Big Miracle’. In the series ‘House of Lies’, she starred as Jeannie van der Hooven. She starred in ‘The Lifeguard’, which was released the following year.

What is Kristen Bell’s Net Worth in 2021?

Kristen Bell has had a very accomplished and successful acting career. She has acted on stage, tv screens and the big screens. She is one of the most popular and beloved actresses of today. As a result of all her incredible success, Kristen Bell’s net worth as of 2020 is $20 million.

Who is Kristen Bell married to?

Kristen Bell was engaged to Kevin Mann for five years. However, that relationship came to an end. After the breakup, Kristen Bell spoke to Complex magazine about dating, this is what Kristen Bell had to say: “makes me want to vomit. And not out of grossness—OK, a little bit out of grossness, but just nerves… I’ve always been a serial monogamist.”

Kristen Bell started dating Dax Shepard, an actor who also hailed from Detroit in 2007. Bell and Shepard announced their engagement in January of 2010. The couple stalled their wedding, waiting for the state of California to pass the same sex marriage law. The couple eventually married on October 16th, 2013 in Beverly Hills County Clerk’s Office. The couple has two daughters.

Kristen Bell: Animal Welfare

Kristen Bell is not a believer of any organized religion and is a secular humanist. She has also been a vegetarian since the age of 11. Kristen Bell said this in an interview with PETA: “I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with—dogs and cats, for example—from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts!” Kristen Bell eventually turned vegan in the year 2012.  Kristen Bell regularly attends fundraisers for organizations such as the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She also owns a large number of dogs. Kristen Bell had this to say about her empathy towards animals:” I’m empathetic to a fault. I really do – embarrassingly enough – tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.”

Kristen Bell campaigned actively for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign in 2008. Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard are also staunch vaccination supporters. Kristen Bell has also publicly confessed to suffering from depression and anxiety. She had this to say about mental health issues:” It’s important for me to be candid about this so people in a similar situation can realize that they are not worthless and that they do have something to offer.”

Kristen Bell: Best Quotes 

“Detroit, the heart of the country… I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.”

“You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don’t figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.” 

“I think your significant other should be way more important than your work. Personally, I love working. I don’t know that I’d say I’m a workaholic because I also love maxing and relaxing.”

“This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I’ve done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I’ve done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I’ve done them numerous times.”

“What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn’t really matter what you’re into – it just means you’re not a follower.”

“I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn’t that funny? The tables have turned” 

“It’s definitely a difficult thing to capture and I mean, I’ve seen a ton of movies where I’ve believed the couple and I’ve seen a ton of movies where I have not believed them at all. Unfortunately, as an audience member, you check out if you don’t believe them.” 

“Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn’t believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.”

“I refused to worry about something I could not change, and I still refuse. Look, I’m like any other woman. All this evolved b.s. that I’m telling you is my mantra. It’s not something I practice naturally. I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed because that’s just part of the journey of having a baby. I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size” 

“I’m very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That’s my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that’s in real womanlike situations, where it’s romanticized, I’m a little nervous about it.”

“What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn’t really matter what you’re into – it just means you’re not a follower.”

Kristen Bell is a famous American actress and singer. Her most famous early role was that of Veronica Mars in the eponymous TV series. She won many awards for that show and her role in it. As of 2020, Kristen Bell’s net worth is around $20 Million. As one of the top actresses in Hollywood, Kristen Bell’s net worth is only expected to increase in the future.