After playing the role of the intelligent Ren Stevens for three years Even Stevensbringing the titular Kim Possible to life and starring opposite Hilary Duff in the DCOM 2002 Cadet Kelly, Christy Carlson Romano went to Broadway for a 31-week run in Disney’s The beauty and the Beast in 2004, in the role of Belle, before returning to the famous theater district in 2008, joining the company of Avenue Q.
She wrote a novel, Grace’s turnin 2007, made a feature film, Christmas once againin 2016, earned a degree in film studies from Barnard College and married screenwriter-producer Brendan Rooney on December 31, 2013. The couple have two daughters, the youngest was born in February 2019.
Christy returned to the network that made her a household name in 2019 with a role in the live-action Kim Possible film, playing pop star Poppy Blu. In May 2019, she also opened up about the struggles she faced during her years as a network star in a hard-hitting essay for Teen Vogue. “I have never been perfect or cohesive, like my reputation or the success of my business adulthood might suggest that,” she confessed. “For a period of my life, I struggled with depression, while drinkingand more, desperate to find solutions to what I was feeling. “
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