Katey Sagal

Katey Sagal: Biography in Details

Who is Katey Sagal?

Katey Sagal is an American actress and singer-songwriter.

She is famous for her role as Peggy Bundy, Al’s sarcastic, lazy, bonbon-eating wife, on Married… with Children and for her role as Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons of Anarchy, for which she won a Golden Globe in 2011.

Katey Sagal: Birth Facts, Family, Ethnicity

Katey Sagal was born Catherine Louise Sagal on January 19, 1954, in Los Angeles, California, the United States to a mixed(Ashkenazi Jewish, German, English, Swiss, French, and Scottish) family.

Katey Sagal is the daughter of Boris Sagal and Sara Zwilling. Her dad Boris was a Ukraine-born television and film director and her mom Sara was a director and singer.

Her mother died on September 1, 1975, due to a heart attack.

Post her death, her father remarried an eminent artist cum-choreographer, Marge Champion.

She has elder twin sisters, Jean Sagal and Liz Sagal. Both of them are American actresses.

Katey Sagal has three brothers: Joey Sagal, Gregg Champion, and David Sagal. Her brothers are also in the entertainment field.

During her childhood, she was inspired by her mom and she first performed when she was five years old.

Katey Sagal: Education History

Katey graduated from Palisades Charter High School, in Los Angeles, California.

Katey Sagal contemplated singing and acting at the California Institute of Arts and began her acting profession in Hollywood at an early age.

Katey Sagal: Professional Life, Career

Katey started her career singing with the band ‘The Group With No Name’ as an artist and lyricist.

In 1973, Katey Sagal executed as a sponsorship vocalist for Bob Dylan and Tanya Tucker.

After that, she kept doing backing vocalists for Olivia Newton-John in June 2004.

Moreover, her official acting debut was in the serial, ‘Mary’, from 1985 to 1986.

This achievement got her the part of ‘Peggy Bundy’ in the sitcom ‘Wedded… with Children, where she portrays a lower-class, sex-starved, free-spending spouse.

The series kept running for a long time from 1987 to 1997 and she started being known as her character, Peg Bundy.

Additionally, she gave her voice to ‘Chief Leela’ in the sci-fi parody ‘Futurama’.

Katey Sagal showed up as a visitor craftsman in three scenes of ‘That ’70’s Show’ and furthermore featured in the sitcom “Tucker” on NBC in the year 2000.

She played the wife of John Ritter in the sitcom ‘8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter’ in 2002.

From 2005 to 2008 she appeared in the serials ‘Lost’, ‘The Winner’, and ‘Eli Stone’.

Katey Sagal has also acted in the movies, ‘House Broken’ and ‘Children of Anarchy’.

In 2016, she was cast in the mainstream sitcom ‘The Big Bang Theory as the mother of Penny, played by Kaley Cuoco.

As of 2023, she has an estimated net worth of $35 million.

Achievements

In September 2014, Katey Sagal achieved a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Body Measurements

Katey Sagal is a brunette with hazel eyes and an hourglass body shape.

Her height is 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) and weighs around 66 kg.

Similarly, her body measurement is 37-25-36 inches, and wears a bra size 34 C.

Her dress size is 8 US and her shoe size is 10 US.

Social Media Profile

Katey Sagal has more than 1.5 million followers on Facebook, 489k followers on Instagram, and more than 543.4k followers on Twitter.

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