Kristen Anne Bell was born on July 18, 1980,  raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Her mother Lorelei and her father Tom Bell works as the television news director for CBS Television in Sacramento. 

she is an American actress and singer. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She gained critical praise enthusiastically and publicly as the title character on the television series Veronica Mars from September 2004 to May 2007. 

She reprised the eponymous role in the 2014 film continuation of the series. Since 2012, Kristen Bell has starred as Jeannie van der Hooven in the Showtime series House of Lies.  She also portrayed the lead role in the 2006 film Pulse, the remake of a J-Horror film. 

In 2007, she joined the cast of the sci-fi television series Heroes, playing the character Elle Bishop, and the drama series Gossip Girl, as the off-screen titular narrator. In 2008, she played Sarah Marshall in the comedy film Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which garnered her fame. 

She has since appeared in a number of comedy films, such as Couples Retreat, You Again, and When in Rome. Bell also voices Lucy Stillman in the Assassin's Creed video game series and Princess Anna in Frozen.