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Kristen Johnston Lists Her New York City Apartment

Luxist - Found Jul. 3, 2009
... at $1.795 million. Gallery: Kristen Johnston in The West Village Filed under: Estates , Celebrity Shopping Kristen Johnston Lists...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 7:01 am

Theater Listings: June 26 July 2

New York Times - Found Jun. 25, 2009
? ?CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY: IN THEIR OWN WORDS? A rotating cast of comics and actors ? Kristen Johnston, Andrea Martin and a few...

Posted on June 25, 2009, 12:46 pm

Kristen Johnston to read 'God'

Variety - Found May. 12, 2009
Kristen Johnston will topline a reading of Maurine Dallas Watkins' "So Help Me God!" at a benefit for Off Broadway's Mint Theater Company.Watkins

Posted on May 12, 2009, 9:15 am

Kristen Johnston to read 'God'

Variety - Found May. 12, 2009
Kristen Johnston will topline a reading of Maurine Dallas Watkins' 'So Help Me God!' at a benefit for Off Broadway's Mint Theater Company.

Posted on May 12, 2009, 9:25 am

Johnston, Baker and Kilner Set for Mint's Upcoming Season

Playbill - Found Jun. 30, 2009
Emmy-winning actress Kristen Johnston will star in the Mint Theater production of Maurine Dallas Watkins' So Help Me God!, which will be presented at ...

Posted on June 30, 2009, 5:26 am

TV series that never were

Tulsa World - Found Jun. 28, 2009
Fab,? based on the wild and crazy BBC comedy, with Jennifer Saunders (Edwina) as a producer and stars Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Johnston.

Posted on June 28, 2009, 4:31 am

New digital technology enhances old classic magic

Daily Dispatch - Found Jun. 25, 2009
Wendy Pretorius Bride Wars Starring: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston, Candice Bergen, Bryan Greenberg, Steve Howey, Chris Pratt...

Posted on June 25, 2009, 3:19 am

Mamet, Shepard and Brunstetter Works Set For Atlantic Theater's ...

Broadway World - Found Jun. 24, 2009
Lucy Thurber's Scarcity, directed by Jackson Gay and featuring Emmy Award winner Kristen Johnston, Jesse Eisenberg and Michael T. Weiss, Jez...
David Mamet Sets World Premiere for Fall - ABC News
New Plays by Mamet, Shepard at Atlantic Theater Company - New York Times
David Mamet sets world premiere for fall - Seattle Times
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Posted on June 24, 2009, 2:26 am

Bart, Hoffman, Birbiglia and More Read Celebrity Autobiography June ...

Playbill - Found Jun. 22, 2009
Xanadu, Addams Family) and Birbiglia (Sleepwalk with Me), the talent for the evening includes Kristen Johnston (The Women, '3rd Rock...

Posted on June 22, 2009, 9:45 am

Buzz wasn't enough to get these pilots on the air

Denver Post - Found Jun. 21, 2009
... to 'Ab Fab,' based on the wild and crazy BBC comedy, with Jennifer Saunders (Edwina) as a producer and stars Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Johnston.

Posted on June 21, 2009, 9:23 am

Kristen Johnston Biography

Kristen Johnston
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Kristen Johnston

Johnston at a PETA event honoring filmmaker Donny Moss, June 2008
Born September 20, 1967 (1967-09-20) (age 41)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1985–present

Kristen Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her Emmy Award winning role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in the sequel to the live-action movie adaptation of The Flintstones animated series. Kristen Johnston is also known for her tall 6' (1.83 m) frame and relatively deep voice for an actress. In 2005, Johnston was also featured in six episodes of NBC's ER. She has recently been cast as Patsy in the American version of the British TV show, Absolutely Fabulous.

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Biography

Early life

Johnston was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of a real estate agent and a Republican state senator from Wisconsin.1 Johnston was raised mostly in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. She attended St. Eugene's Catholic Grade School and graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, although 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.

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. Now in addition to her stage and film career, she also teaches at the Atlantic Acting School in NYC.

In addition, she 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, the alien lieutenant and security officer posing as a sexy female human in Ohio. She starred in the series from 1996-2001 along with John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, French Stewart, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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.2 Johnston appeared in the sixth and final season of Sex and the City. In the episode entitled "Splat!", she plays Lexi Featherston, an aging party girl. After the character accidentally falls out of a window and dies, Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) reexamines her life and decides to move to Paris with Aleksandr Petrovsky (played by Mikhail Baryshnikov).

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