Katey Sagal
Katey Sagal is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and voice actor born in Hollywood on January 19, 1954.
Sagal attended Palisades Charter High School before going on to study at the California Institute of the Arts. Those years laid the groundwork for a career that has moved across film, television, and music. As a singer-songwriter and musician, she has worked in multiple creative lanes simultaneously rather than committing to just one.
Her television work brought her significant recognition. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama, a milestone that marked her standing in the industry. Alongside her live-action work, she built a substantial presence in voice acting, most notably as Turanga Leela on the animated series Futurama. That role kept her connected to the show across its various runs and cemented her place in animation.
Her hometown of Hollywood also honored her with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sagal's career spans film, television, and voice work, with her musical identity as a singer-songwriter running as a consistent thread throughout.
Quotes by Katey Sagal
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When you tour with a band, you’re just out there, and it’s just you guys. That’s your little universe. If you do a play, it’s the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
For me it’s also – the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
And I think that’s why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn’t want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
It’s sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you’re not able to continue on.
To be shapely when you’re in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone’s looking for, or they weren’t then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that’s like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn’t.