Katey Sagal - Biography
Katey Sagal is a Golden Globe Award winning actor, voice actor and singer-songwriter. She may be best known for her iconic roles as Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons Of Anarchy, Peggy Bundy on Married... with Children, and as the voice of Leela on the Comedy Central animated show Futurama.
Born Catherine Louise Sagal to a showbiz family in Los Angeles - her father is the late Boris Sagal, the television and film director, and her mother, Sara Zwilling, is a director and singer - she began performing at age 5. She studied voice and acting at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Sagal started performing music in 1976 with the band "The Group with No Name," and went on to sing backup on Gene Simmons' 1978 solo album, in addition to singing with Bob Dylan, Olivia Newton-John, Etta James, and Tanya Tucker. She was also a member of Bette Midler's backup group, The Harlettes, for three years.
Sagal's first big acting role came in 1985 when she was cast as Mary Tyler Moore's co-worker Jo Tucker in Mary (1985), a short-lived comedy series. In 1987, she was cast to play the role of Peggy Bundy in Married... with Children (1987), a role for which she received three Golden Globe and two American Comedy Award nominations. In 1999, Matt Groening cast her as the voice of Turanga Leela, the one-eyed sewer mutant, in the animated series Futurama. She returned to television in 2002 as the mother in the popular sitcom 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter, co-starring the late John Ritter. Since 2008, Sagal has been playing Gemma Teller Morrow on Sons of Anarchy, which is written and produced by the show's creator, her husband Kurt Sutter. Sagal won her first Golden Globe Award in 2011 for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama for the role. Additionally, Sagal has guested on other television series' including Lost, Boston Legal, Ghost Whisperer, The Shield, Eli Stone, and Glee. She has appeared in television movies and feature films including Maid to Order, The Good Mother, Dropping Out, Following Tildy, and I'm Reed Fish.
Sagal released her debut album, Well, in 1994. Ten years later, she released her sophomore album, Room (2004) on Valley Entertainment. Her latest album, Covered (Entertainment One), is a collection of cover songs by artists including Tom Petty, Ryan Adams, and Gillian Welch, and features a duet with Jackson Browne.
