Katey Sagal

**Catherine Louise "Katey" Sagal** (born January 19, 1954) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for playing the role of Peggy Bundy on the Fox comedy series *Married... with Children* and the voice of Leela on the animated series *Futurama*. She was d for four Golden Globe Awards for "Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy" and two American Comedy Awards for her work on *Married... with Children*.

Sagal has been the voice of *Futurama* and its direct-to-DVD movies since 1999. She is also known for starring on the series *8 Simple Rules* in the role of Cate Hennessy. She worked on that series with John Ritter until his death.  Sagal took over as the series' lead character after the death of Ritter.

Since 2008, she has played the role of matriarch Gemma Teller Morrow in the FX drama series *Sons of Anarchy*. She won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress – Television Series Drama" in 2011 for this part. She has been married to the creator of the series, Kurt Sutter, since 2004.

## Early life
Sagal was born in California to a show business family of five children. Her younger sisters Jean and Liz Sagal. They are a pair of twins who also act. Her brother is actor Joe Sagal. Her mother, Sara Zwilling was a writer and producer. Sagal's father, Boris Sagal was a director. Sagal grew up in Brentwood, Los Angeles. However, airings in syndication on Adult Swim. The series was later broadcast on Comedy Central. This caused the popularity of the show to grow. Comedy Central decided to have a series of *Futurama* direct-to-DVD movies made. These were broadcast by the network as 16 episodes. Sagal played the part of  Leela in these movies. She also voiced the new season that began June 24, 2010.

Sagal guest starred as Edna Hyde, Steven Hyde's mother, in three episodes of ''That '70s Show*. She was also in the NBC sitcom *Tucker*.

Sagal was cast as the wife of John Ritter in the sitcom *8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter* in 2002. Ritter was in only three episodes of the second season before his death. The show ended in 2005 after its third season.

In 2005, she made was on *Lost* as Helen Norwood. In 2007, she had a role in the season finale of *The Winner''. She played the part of Glen Abbot's former, and Josh's current, teacher, with whom Glen has his first sexual experience. The next year, she was in four episodes of the series *Eli Stone*. She currently stars as Gemma Teller Morrow on the TV series *Sons of Anarchy*. It was created by her husband, Kurt Sutter.

In January 2009, Sagal worked with David Faustino for an episode of Faustino's show *Star-ving*. Faustino played her son, Bud Bundy, from *Married with Children*. In 2010, she was on *Lost* for two more episodes. In 2009 she was in the movie *House Broken* with Danny DeVito.

In 2010, she returned to the stage in Randy Newman's musical *Harps & Angels*.

## Personal life
Sagal was married to Freddie Beckmeier (1978–1981) and Jack White (November 26, 1993–July 24, 2000). In 1991, Sagal learned she was pregnant. The directors of *Married... with Children* wrote her pregnancy into the storyline of the series. In October 1991, she had to have an emergency Caesarean section in her seventh month of pregnancy. The baby, a girl, did not live. The pregnancy on the series was then shown to be a dream. She also had an early miscarriage near this time. She and White did have two children. The writers of *Married... with Children* did not write Sagal's two later pregnancies into the series because of her earlier problems. They chose to only show her where her midsection was not seen.

Sagal married writer-producer Kurt Sutter on October 2, 2004 in Los Feliz, California. They have a daughter, who was born through a surrogate mother.

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