Lauralee Bell
Lauralee Bell
The Young & The Restless: Christine "Cricket" Blair
Lauralee Bell returned to THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS in 2012 for sweeps to tie-up some storylines that had been reverberating for years and never left. The return was perfectly timed to the build-up to the 40th Anniversary of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, the #1 rated soap for 26 years and counting. She spent eighteen years starring in this soap and brought her character to CBS' THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL in 2007 for a story arc. She made a short-term return to Y&R in 2010 and 2011.
She won an Emmy Award in 2014 for mI promise in the Outstanding Special Class – Short Format Daytime Program category. mI promise is a web series produced by Martin Bell Productions focusing on the dangers of distracted driving.
Bell has created/produced/written/directed and sometimes acts in three diverse webseries, including mI promise. She began with her Webby Honoree FAMILY DINNER webseries, which she executive produced with her husband Scott Martin. She debuted her celebrity-filled webisodes on the front page of FUNNYORDIE, Will Ferrell's industry favorite comedy website. Bell won a Telly Award for her next webseries, JUST OFF RODEO which married entertainment to fashion and a new form of merchandising.
Lauralee also starred in EASY RIDER: THE RIDE BACK, a prequel to the iconic film. She was the lead in the Lifetime movie, PAST SINS, where she portrayed hotshot attorney Donna Erickson, who specialized in cases that generated lots of media attention. She was the female lead in the feature film, CARPOOL GUY, directed and produced by Corbin Bernsen. She also guested on CASTLE and CSI: MIAMI.
Bell grew up on Y&R, emerging from fashion model Cricket to passionate, ultra-competent attorney Christine Blair Williams. The fans voted her Outstanding Supporting Actress at the Soap Opera Awards and Lifetime chose Bell as one of their Intimate Portrait subjects. She has always been one of the most popular daytime magazine cover subjects. One soap magazine put her on the cover for eight consecutive issues and the resulting sales surge permanently took them from third place to a gaining-on-#1 second place.
In real life, Bell married photographer Scott Martin, whom she met when they were schoolmates in Chicago, in a storybook 1997 wedding. The couple had their first child in 2001, their second in 2002 and gave birth to their joint production company a few years after that.
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