By Kregg JankeActress Kristen Johnston is best known for playing Sally Solomon on the hit series "3rd Rock from the Sun," a role for which she earned two Supporting Actress Emmys.
The show ran for six seasons in the late 1990s and launched not only her Hollywood career, but also that of co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("The Dark Knight Rises").
She has a new series airing Wednesdays on TV Land called "The Exes," in which she plays a divorce attorney who convinces three recently divorced clients, played by Wayne Knight ("Seinfeld"), Donald Faison ("Scrubs") and David Alan Basche ("The Starter Wife"), to move into the apartment across from hers. The show is a well-written throwback to multi-camera sitcoms and a true "situation comedy."
In the time between these series, Johnston worked steadily in Hollywood while also continuing her theatre career in New York. She also worked hard to hide an addiction which nearly took her life while performing in London for a play. She details her near-death experience with brutal honesty and a good dose of humor in her recently released book "Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster."
In the book, Johnston takes readers through her journey from being a childhood "freak" growing up in Middle America (where her father was a Republican State Senator), to overnight fame and success with "3rd Rock" and through her addiction, near death and recovery.
Non-addicts may be concerned that such a book would only appeal to other addicts, but it is such an interesting story, and so well written and funny, that even a non-addict like me couldn't put it down.
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