The ‘sitcom’ starring Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate and David Faustino turns 35, and we discover what the actors have done during this time.
The series created by Ron Leavitt y Michael G. Moyeachievement seven Golden Globe nominations and others seven to the Emmy Awards, but surprisingly never achieved any of the awards. This did not have any repercussion in the successive renewals of the sitcom, and the network only looked at the excellent audience data that the broadcast of each of its episodes achieved.
married with childrenwhich was broadcast in Spain by La 2 de Televisión Española, narrated, in a comedic tone, the daily life of the Bundys, a peculiar family headed by the marriage formed by Al (Ed O’Neill) and Peggy (Katey Sagal), and by their two teenage children, Kelly (Christina Applegate) and Bud (David Faustino). Al’s complaints, a maverick by nature; Peggy’s disappointment; Kelly’s eternal follies, and the blunders of little Bud, the sanest of the family quartet, accompanied several generations for a whole decade.
What happened to the actors of ‘Camera Café’: This is how the protagonists of the fiction that has just made the leap to the cinema have changed
Now, 35 years later, we wanted to look back to make a review of the careers of its protagonists to find out whether to participate in a hit series like married with children It opened more doors for them or just the opposite.
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Ed O’Neill
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In 1997, O’Neill said goodbye to the role that earned him two Golden Globe nominations. After participating with small roles in films such as The bone Collector, in the year 2000 he returned to the small screen to participate in the television miniseries The Tenth Kingdom. Subsequently, she starred in the CBS miniseries Big Apple; ABC’s fiction, Dragnet, and she participated in several episodes of the successful The West Wing of the White House, where he played Governor Eric Baker. But without a doubt, his new great role on television would come in 2009, when he began to play Jay Prichett in the multi-awarded Moder Family. A role that he played throughout 11 seasons, and 250 episodes, and with which, in addition to three Emmy Award nominations, he has managed to win the affection of the public. Since the end of the series created by Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, in the year 2020, he has stayed away from acting.
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Katey Sagal
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The same year he said goodbye to Peggy, he starred in several television movies, and joined the children’s animated series The backyard band to voice Flo Spinelli. Two years later, in 1999, she would join the cast of Futuramato lend their voice to Leela. In 2002, she was cast as the lead on the ABC sitcom, not with my daughtersuntil the end of fiction in 2005. Later, he participated in the series Boston Legal, Eli StonHey Lostuntil in 2008 he joined the leading cast of the successful Sons of Anarchy. His role as Gemma Teller MorrowJackson Teller’s mother, earned him a Golden Globe, in 2011. Sagal has shown that television is like her second home, and at 68 years of age, she still does not have a free space in her schedule. Among his most recent projects are Shameless, Rebel y Los Conner.
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Christina Applegate
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One year after the end of married with children, the actress was signed to star in the NBC series, Jesse, in which she played a single mother who lives with her father and brothers. After the end of fiction, in the year 2000, Applegate participated in several film productions, such as The sweetest thing y Wonderland. In 2002, she joined the well-known Friends to give life to Amy Greenthe sister of Rachel -the character of Jennifer Aniston. Although his passage through fiction was very brief, his great performance earned him his first -and to date only- Emmy Award.
From this moment on, the actress has not been short of work, and although she has been seen on the big screen in titles such as surviving christmas y bad mothers, among others; he has always had a special predilection for television fiction. So, from 2007 to 2009 she starred in the ABC sitcom Samantha… what?and from 2019 to 2020, the Netflix crime comedy, Dead to Me. Two fictions for which he achieved a total of five Emmy nominations.
Christina Applegate has also made her first steps on the stage, and in 2004 he debuted on Broadway with the play Sweet Charity, for which he was Tony Award nominated. Of course, her love of acting has taken precedence over various health problems that she has had to deal with. In 2008, she overcame breast cancer, and last year, at the age of 50, announced that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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David Faustino
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But what happened to Faustino after the end of Marriage with Children? The actor, who has just turned 46 years old, has always been closely linked to the small screen, where he has participated in several TV movies, and has appeared in series such as X FilesThe Bernie Mac Show and Entourage, among other. Faustino has also worked as a dubbing actor in animated fictions such as What’s new, Scooby-Doo? the legend of korra, Dragons: Riders of Mema y Winx Club. In 2009 she signed on to star in the web series Star-ving, and in 2017 she joined the cast of the CBS drama, The Young and the Restless.
In 2013, he was reunited with his fictional father, Ed O’Neillin Modern Family, where he played Tater, an old boyfriend of Claire Dunphy. The actor also made his first steps in the world of music, and in 1992, he published a rap album under the title, Balistyx.
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David Garrison
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Thus, from 1995 to 2000, the actor participated in numerous works, both on and off Broadway, including I Do! I Do!, Skin of Our Teeth, Titanic and The Witches of Eastwick. During this time, and until 2009, he participated in several episodes of the series Law. In addition, to date he has made small appearances in fictions such as The Good WifeThe West Wing of the White House, Without a Trace and new york cops, among other; and of course, he has continued with his career on stage.
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Amanda Bearse
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The actress also participated in Fox’s fiction as director of thirty episodes. After the end of the series, Bearse focused on her facet as a filmmaker and went behind the scenes in television titles such as Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher; The Jamie Foxx Show; Dharma and Greg; Sabrina, witch things, and The Big Gay Sketch Show. Bearse has recently returned to the big screen by joining the cast of BROSthe new work of Nicholas Stoller. In addition, for a season she dedicated herself to teaching at the Seattle Film School.
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Ted McGinley
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Since the end of the series, McGinley has been alternating roles in television productions, both series and movies, with roles in different film titles. Of the latter, Day Break and Pearl Harbor. On the small screen, she has been seen in fiction such as Sports Night, The West Wing of the White House and, more recently, Nick’s Secret and The Baxters. In addition, he has lent his voice to animation characters in series such as Family Guy y Transformers: Robots in Disguise.
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