Katey Sagal

Sagal was also a series regular on the CBS sitcom Superior Donuts.\n', ' Sagal was born in Los Angeles, California to a show business family with five children. Her father, Boris Sagal, was a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant who worked as a director, and died in 1981 in an accident on the set of the miniseries World War III. Sagal\'s mother, Sara Zwilling, was a singer (stage name Sara Macon) producer, and television writer who died of heart disease in 1975; After Sara died, Sagal\'s father married dancer/actress Marge Champion in 1977. Three of Sagal\'s four siblings are actors: her younger twin sisters, Jean and Liz Sagal and brother Joe 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 is prominent sitcom producer and writer Norman Lear. In 2016 both Katey and Norman 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."\n', ' One role was as a receptionist in the Columbo installment "Candidate for Crime," which was directed by her father. Sagal\'s first major role was as a newspaper columnist in the series Mary (1985–86) starring Mary Tyler Moore. 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 eleven years. Sagal brought her own red bouffant wig to audition for the role, and with the producers\' approval, the look transitioned into the show.\n', '