Kristen Johnston
KRISTEN JOHNSTON is an Atlantic Theatre company member and returns to the company in the role of Martha in Scarcity. She has appeared in numerous Atlantic Theatre productions including Overruled, As You Like It, Portrait of a Woman, Rosemary for Remembrance, Five Very Live and Atlantic's production of Howard Korder's The Lights at Lincoln Center, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She has appeared on the Broadway stage in The Women (Roundabout) and in Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Skin of Our Teeth for the Public Theater's New York Shakespeare Festival. Off-Broadway credits include The Baltimore Waltz (Signature), Hot Keys and The Stand In (Naked Angels), Kim's Sister (New York Stage and Film), Baby Anger (Playwrights Horizons) and the Obie Award winning play Aunt Dan and Lemon (New Group). She is best known to television audiences for playing Sally Soloman on the hit NBC series, 3rd Rock from the Sun, for which she won two Emmy Awards, as well as Golden Globe, Screen Actor's Guild, TV Guide and American Comedy Award nominations. She most recently co-starred opposite Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore in the Warner Brother's feature film Music and Lyrics, guest starred as Dr. Eve Peyton on NBC's award-winning medical drama ER, and made her West End stage debut in Love Song directed by John Crowley. Other film roles include starring opposite Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Wilma Flintstone in Universal's The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas and The Debt (Cannes Film Festival Best Short Award winner). Bio as of October, 2007. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Downstage Center (audio) Kristen Johnston - October, 2007 - Listen Now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)