Katey Sagal

Catherine Louise Sagal (born January 19, 1954) is an American actress and singer.

Sagal was born on January 19, 1954, in Los Angeles to a show business family with five children.

In 1973, she worked as a backing vocalist for various singers, including Bob Dylan, Etta James, and Tanya Tucker.

One early role was as a receptionist in the detective Columbo installment "Candidate for Crime" (1973) which was directed by her father Boris.

Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was a singer (stage name Sara Macon), producer, and television writer who died of heart disease in 1975, and Sagal's father, Boris Sagal, worked as a television director.

Her father was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant.

Her mother had Amish ancestors.

In 1976, while a member of The Group with No Name, she contributed to the album Moon over Brooklyn (on which she was credited as "Katie Sagal").

In 1977, Sagal's father married dancer/actress Marge Champion, a few years before his accidental death on the set of the miniseries World War III in 1981.

Three of Sagal's four siblings are actors: her younger twin sisters, Jean and Liz Sagal and brother Joey Sagal; her other brother David Sagal is an attorney married to actress McNally Sagal.

Sagal and her siblings grew up in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

Her godfather was sitcom producer and writer Norman Lear.

She performed backing vocals on the self-titled Gene Simmons solo album (1978), the Molly Hatchet album Take No Prisoners (1981), and on Olivia Newton-John's 1985 single "Soul Kiss."

She was a member of the music group, the Harlettes consisting of Bette Midler's backup singers, in 1978, and again from 1982 to 1983.

She performed the song "It's the Time for Love" that appears in the film Silent Rage (1982) featuring Chuck Norris.

During the filming of 1983's Valley Girl, Sagal was scheduled to sing at The Central.

Her name can be seen in the schedule of upcoming acts, posted inside the door.

Sagal's first major role was as a newspaper columnist in the series Mary (1985–86) starring Mary Tyler Moore.

Katey Sagal briefly appeared in the 1986 music video for Debbie Harry's song French Kissin (in the USA).

She is known for playing Peggy Bundy on Married... with Children (1987–1997), Leela on Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2023), Cate Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005), Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons of Anarchy (2008–2014), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 2011, and Louise Goldufski-Conner on The Conners (2018–present).

This led to her being cast as Peggy Bundy on the sitcom Married... with Children (1987–1997); she portrayed the lower-class, sex-starved, lazy and free-spending wife of shoe salesman Al Bundy.

The series ran for 11 years.

Reportedly Sagal brought her own red bouffant wig to audition for the role, and with the producers' approval the look transitioned into the show.

However Sagal later explained that she had initially styled her own hair, then once the show took off, the producers began to invest in a wig.

After the end of Married... with Children, several more television films followed; Sagal also guest starred on the children's cartoon Recess as the voice of Spinelli's mother.

Sagal also provided the vocals for "Loose Cannons," the theme song for the 1990 film of the same name featuring Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd.

On April 19, 1994, Sagal released her first solo album, Well....

In 1998, Matt Groening chose her to provide the character voice of the purple-haired mutant spaceship captain, Leela, in his science-fiction animated comedy Futurama.

The show developed a cult following, but was canceled after four seasons.

However, syndication on Adult Swim and Comedy Central increased the show's popularity and led Comedy Central to commission a season of Futurama direct-to-DVD films, which the network later retransmitted as a 16-episode fifth season.

On June 1, 2004, she released her second album, Room.

She has also contributed to the Sons of Anarchy soundtrack in the early 2010s, working with its house band The Forest Rangers (Davey Faragher/bass, John Philipe Shenale(Phil Shenale)/keyboards, Billy Harvey/guitar-vocals, Michael Urbano/drums, Bob Thiele Jr../vocals-guitar) with songs that became part of its soundtrack albums (Songs of Anarchy: Music from Sons of Anarchy Seasons 1–4 Sons of Anarchy: Songs of Anarchy Vol. 2, Sons of Anarchy: Songs of Anarchy Vol. 3, Sons of Anarchy: Songs of Anarchy Vol. 4) and singles.

She worked with the band for her album Covered (2013).

For their live performances The Forest Rangers have occasionally used the name The Reluctant Apostles.

In 2016, both Sagal and Lear acknowledged that she was not only his goddaughter, but that he also introduced her parents to each other.

Sagal has described herself as "culturally Jewish" but with no "formal religious experience."

Sagal graduated from Palisades High School.

After graduation, she attended the California Institute of the Arts.

Sagal began her career in show business as a singer and songwriter.

"Mayans MC: Black is Black" single from Mayans M.C. was released in 2019 performed by Sagal and The Forest Rangers.