Liz Sagal

Liz Sagal: Biography in Details

Who is Liz Sagal?

Liz Sagal is an American actress. Liz is also a screenwriter, voice-over, singer, and movie editor. The 1983 movie Flashdance is one of her well-known movies where Liz appears as the character Sonny.

The 1984-85 television series Double Trouble is one of the highlights of Liz’s career. You can see Liz and Jean Sagal on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Check it out!

Liz Sagal- Birth Age, Family, Early Life

Liz Sagal was born Elizabeth A. Sagal on 9th October 1961, in Los Angeles, California, US. She is one of the five children born to the patriarch of the star-studded Sagal family.

Her father is a movie director Boris Sagal, and her mother Sara Maçon-Swilling was the first woman director and multi-linguistic singer. Sara died on 1st September 1975 in Los Angeles, California.

Liz Sagal’s father Mr. Sagal is of Ukrainian descent and immortalized by the movies he directed like the 1971 movies, The Omega Man, The Name of the Game, and Masada.

Boris Sagal married Marge Champion on 1st January 1977 and they lived together till the day he died. Mr. Boris Sagal was tragically killed on 22nd May 1981 by a spinning helicopter blade while he directing on the sets of the 1982 movie World War III in Oregon, USA. He was just 57 years young.

Liz Sagal has other siblings including her twin sister Jean, and Cathy, Joey Sagal, Gregg Champion, and David Sagal.

More about Liz’s siblings

Jean Sagal is an actress and her twin. Jean is also the associate director for the 2 Broke Girls and Two and a Half Men among others.

Cathy Sagal was born on 19th January 1954, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and is older than Liz she too is an actress and is married to Kurt Sutter, the creator of the 2008 series Sons of Anarchy and in which she is the protagonist.

Joey Sagal was born on 12 February 1957 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and is older than Liz. Joey too is an actor and screenwriter and has played Elvis Presley and George Clooney. Joey has an ex-wife, Hanana Suzan-Stadner Sagal, a Canadian executive and who made history as the first vlogger.

Gregg Champion was born on 20th November 1956 in Los Angeles, California, and is Liz’s step-brother through her step-mother Marge Champion’s previous marriage to Gower Champion. Gower died on 25th August 1980.

David Segal is Liz’s elder brother. David is the Senior Vice President at Warner Bros and is married to actress McNally.

Liz Sagal’s paternal uncle is the great Russian actor Daniil Sagal.

Liz Sagal- Professional Career

Television Career

From 4th April 1984 to 30th March 1985, Liz appeared regularly with her twin Jean Sagal in the series Double Trouble. The series starred the Identical twins Jean and Liz as Kate and Allison Foster living with their so-very observant but widowed father and who slept with one eye open- and played by Art Foster.

The series was set in Des Moines, Iowa, US, and revolved around the lives of the twins’ high school, dancing, and their father’s dance studio.

The American sitcom Double Trouble was created by David W. Duclon, Robert Illes, and James Stein. It was, however the godfather- played by Norman Lear, who was the real enforcer in the concept of the show.

Other TV series are-

1984, as Allison Foster in Double Trouble

1993, as Ellen Shannon in Picket Fences.

Movie Career- A few of Liz’s movies are-

1982, like a sorority girl in Grease.

1983, as Sunny in Flashdance

1986, as Ronette of Cherry Bomb Band in Howard the Duck.

1989, like Amy in Skinheads

1992, as Mandy on Life on the Edge

More about the 2018 Grease 2 Reunion Screening, Reception and Film Introduction, and 35th Anniversary.

Singing Career

More about songs from Howard the Duck- The non-existent band Cherry Bomb sing and play- “Hunger City”, “Don’t Turn Away (Reprise)”, “It Don’t Come Cheap” and “Howard the Duck”.

Screenwriting Career

1997, Mad About You

1998-2002, Two Guys and a Girl and a Pizza Place

2004, Monk

2005-06, Charmed

2007, Vanished

2009-2013, Sons of Anarchy

2016, Banshee

Brand Endorsement & Model

-Liz Sagal and her twin Jean Sagal modeled as the “Doublemint Twins” in the ad campaign by Doublemint gum.

-The Sagal Twins worked for an ad campaign by McDonald’s.

What is Liz Sagal’s net worth?

Liz Sagal’s net worth is $30 million US as of 2022. Her earnings as a screenwriter are $75k US and above.

US Box Office

Among Liz’s movies, the 1982 movie Grease 2 was rated the highest, and in 1986, Howard the Duck was rated the lowest both in terms of earnings and viewer rating.

-Howard the Duck songs by non-existent Cherry Bomb Band in the year 1986 made $16.3M in the US Bos Office.

The songs were by imaginary Ronette who sang ‘Hunger City, Don’t Turn Away, It Don’t Come Cheap, Howard the Duck’.

-Grease 2 in 1982 made $4.65M on the Opening Weekend and made $11.6M in the US Box Office

-Flashdance made $94.9M in 1983 at the US Box Office.

Social Media

Liz Sagal has more than 9.3k followers on Facebook, 3.3m on Twitter, 128 posts on Instagram, and 36k views on YouTube.

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