Attended Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Also attended Berkley High School in Berkley, Michigan.

In 2006, Veronica Mars fans hired a plane to fly between UPN’s old headquarters and the CW’s new ones carrying a banner that read “Renew Veronica Mars! CW 2006!” in an effort to save the low-rated series. Bell called the actions “crazy and really awesome.”

After playing Mary Lane in the “Reefer Madness” stage musical, she was asked to reprise the role in the film version, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005).

Has two stepsisters by her father’s remarriage – Sara and Jody. They were both born in Canada.

Is of Irish and Polish descent.

Loves dogs.

Plays a 17-year-old on “Veronica Mars” (2004) but is 7 years older than her character.

Was raised in suburban Huntington Woods, Michigan, and attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan, the same school actress Jessy Hodges and actor David Geister attended.

Her parents Tom Bell, a television news director, and Lorelei Bell, a registered nurse, divorced when she was two.

Has now played two different characters named “Gracie” – in Fifty Pills and in Gracie’s Choice.

Is a vegetarian.

Is a big fan of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (1990).

She worked at a TCBY in Royal Oak in 1997-98 while a Senior in High School.

Lived in Huntington Woods, Michigan with other performers such as Ellen Sandweiss, Jessy Hodges, David Geister and Julie Schamanski.

Her favorite episode of “Veronica Mars” (2004) (as of 2006) is “The Wrath of Con” (Episode 1.4).

Was voted PETA’s “World’s Sexiest Vegetarian” for 2006.

BFA in Drama – New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (2002).

Named #1 on Maxim’s 2006 list of “Fall TV’s Criminally Sexy Investigators”.

Roots passionately for the Detroit Red Wings.

Was named by Jane magazine in the U.S.A. as one of the “11 People You’d Most Like to See Naked.” She posed for the magazine’s July 2005 issue.

Says she was a vegan in high school, but had to give it up because of her love of cheese.

Enrico Colantoni, who plays her father on “Veronica Mars” (2004), is only 17 years older than she is.

She loves animals and often volunteers for animal related charities.

She’s an investor in bar L’Scorpion.

Was named the Popular Television Actress Most AIM users wanted to Add to Their Buddy Lists, and received the AIM Best TV Buddy award.

She was mentioned in People’s Magazine “Most Beautiful 2007″ on the Beauty at every age page. She was the beauty at age 26.

Was voted peta2′s “World’s Sexiest Vegetarian” for 2007.

In 1998, the year of her graduation, she appeared in Polish Wedding (1998), a movie that was being filmed locally.

Named the yearbook’s “Best Looking Girl” by senior class vote.

Broke both her wrists playing hockey.

Has a black Labrador, who is 11 years old and rescued from Hurricane Katrina.

Aspires to be a stand-up comic.

Has dessert after every meal, even breakfast.

When she was 3 years old, announced to her parents that she was changing her name to “Smurfette”.

Helped deliver two babies while doing volunteer work in Brazil.

Fan of Amy Poehler.

For her first appearance at the Emmy Awards in 2004 (which she said was a hoot “because no one knew who I was”), Kristen Bell borrowed a Nicole Miller gown and Scotch-taped an 11-carat diamond ring to her finger.

On her mother’s side, she is of Polish descent like her fellow co-star Stephen Tobolowsky, who plays her father on “Heroes”.

Has a motorcycle license.

Kristen Bell is often recognized for a small scene during the credits of the cult hit, Pootie Tang. “People recognize me for that more than anything else!” she told Entertainment Weekly in 2004.

After crying at her first audition for a part in a community theater production of Raggedy Ann and Andy, Kristen Bell was cast “in the complex dual role of the banana in the first act and the tree in the second act,” she told New York’s Daily News.

Before heading to NBC’s Heroes, Kristen Bell had ties with Hayden Panettiere. She knew the sci-fi cheerleader for nine years because they shared a manager. “Kristen likes to say she practically changed my diapers,” Panettiere told the New York Post.