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Blonde supporting and occasional lead actress Christine Taylor
started appearing on television and in feature films in her early
teens. Fans of the The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) and its sequel
will recognize her for playing Marsha.
In The Craft (1996), Taylor was memorable for playing the
snotty cheerleader who teased a young witch and ended up losing
her hair in the shower. In The Wedding Singer (1998), she
played Madonna-wannabe Holly.
On television, Taylor briefly starred in her own series, Party
Girl, on the Fox network. She had a recurring role on Ellen
as a dim-bulb blonde in Ellen's book group and was on Seinfeld as
Jerry's too perfect girlfriend. On Friends, she concealed
her long, golden tresses under a rubber cap to play Bonnie, Phoebe's
bald friend.
Raised in Allentown, PA, Taylor started performing in local stage
productions at age three. On television, Taylor's first major regular
role was on the Nickelodeon network's first original series Hey
Dude. She then played Marilyn in a Fox movie updating an old
sitcom, Here Come the Munsters. On stage, she found success
appearing at Los Angeles' Westwood Playhouse in the 1992 production
of The Real Live Brady Bunch.
Though The Brady Bunch Movie was her first starring role
in a major feature, She had already gained movie experience in
the direct-to-video film Night of the Demons (1994), which
she claims to have done to provide an outlet for the terror she
experienced after someone threatened her with a gun and carjacked
her in Los Angeles.
Taylor believes that one reason she does not get larger and more
frequent roles is that she staunchly refuses to do nudity onscreen.
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