
Katey Sagal Biography
Katey Sagal is a songwriter and actor from the United States. She is most known for her roles as Peggy Bundy on Married with Children, Leela on Futurama, Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules, and Gemma Teller on FX’s Sons of Anarchy, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for most Actress-Television TV Drama in 2011. From 2018 to 2019, Sagal portrayed Dr. Jones on Shameless, and Louise on The Conners from 2018 to the present.
Katey Sagal Age
On January 19, 1954, Katey Sagal was born in Los Angeles, California, US. She is 69 years old.
Katey Sagal’s Height
Sagal stands at an approximate stature of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Katey Sagal Husband
From 1978 to 1981, Sagal was married to musician Freddie Beckmeier. From 1993 until 2000, she was also married to Jack White. She also married writer-producer Kurt Sutter in a private ceremony at their Los Angeles home on October 2, 2004. They have a daughter named Esme Louise, whom they welcomed in 2007.
Katey Sagal Family
Sagal is the late Sara Zwilling’s (mother) and Boris Sagal’s (father) daughter. Her mother, known professionally as Sara Macon, was an English, German, and Scottish vocalist. Her father was a director of Jewish ancestry in Ukraine.
She also has four siblings: younger twin sisters, Jean and Liz, also performers, and a brother, Joe, who is also an actor. Her other brother, David, is an attorney and Warner Brothers studio executive who is married to actress McNally Sagal.
Her mother died of heart illness in 1975, and her father remarried dancer and choreographer Marge Champion later in life. In 1981, he was killed in an accident during the filming of the television film World War III. Norman Lear, a well-known sitcom producer, was Katey’s godfather and was responsible for introducing her father to business. Katey attended the California Institute of Arts, where she studied singing and acting.
Katey Sagal’s Net Worth
Sagal’s estimated net worth is $30 Million.
Katey Sagal Career
She began her show industry career as a singer and songwriter. She was a background vocalist for Bob Dylan and Tanya Tucker in 1973. She continued to work as a background vocalist for various well-known musicians, including Olivia Newton-John, and in June 2004, she released her debut solo album, Well, followed by Room.
Furthermore, in the series “Mary,” which aired from 1985 to 1986, Sagal played a newspaper journalist at a Chicago newspaper office. This led to her casting as Peggy Bundy in the sitcom Married… with Children, in which she plays the lower-class, sex-deprived, free-spending wife of an unpleasant shoe salesman. Peg Bundy became a household name over the ten-year run of the sitcom (1987-1997).
She also appeared as a guest artist in three episodes of “That 70’s Show” and starred in the NBC sitcom “Tucker” in 2000. Sagal also appeared in the 2002 sitcom “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter” as John Ritter’s wife. The series was about a nice marriage with three children, which was a far cry from her previous image of being married with… children.
She featured in the series “Lost,” the winner, and Eli Stone from 2005 to 2008. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2014 for her contributions to show business. In addition, Katey was cast as Penny’s mother in the hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Furthermore, she appeared in the CBS sitcom Superior Donuts from 2017 to 2018. Sagal also had a recurring role on the ABC comedy series Conners from 2018 to 2019. She recently starred as Annie Bello in the ABC television series Rebel in 2021.
Katey Sagal Movies and TV Shows
Movies
- Futurama: Bender’s Game (Turanga Leela/Leegola) (2008)
- Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder (Turanga Leela) (2009)
- House Broken (Mary Cathcart) (2009)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (Mrs. Thatcher) (2009)
- There’s Always Woodstock (Lee Ann) (2014)
- Pitch Perfect 2 (Katherine Junk) (2015)
- Bleed for This (Louise Pazienza) (2016)
- Torn Hearts (Harper Dutch) (2022)
Tv Shows
- Shameless (Dr. Ingrid Jones) (2018-2019)
- The Conners (Louise Conner née. Goldufski) (2018-present)
- Grand Hotel (Teresa Williams) (2019)
- Dead to Me (Eleanor Hale) (2020-2022)Rebel (Annie “Rebel” Bello) (2021)
- Tell Me Lies (Nora (Stephen’s mom) (2022)
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