Krista Allen

Krista Allen
Krista Allen at a Myspace event in 2011
Born	(1971-04-05) April 5, 1971 Ventura, California, U.S.
Other names	Krista Allen-Moritt
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1994–present
Spouse(s)	Justin Moritt (1996–1999) Mams Taylor (2010–2012)
Children	1
Website
Official website

Krista Allen (born April 5, 1971) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in the television series, Days of Our Lives, and Baywatch Hawaii, and in the Hollywood films Liar Liar, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Anger Management, The Final Destination and the Emmanuelle erotic TV series.

Early life

Krista Allen was born in Ventura, California.^[1] Allen has an older brother, Dalton Earl Allen, Jr. She grew up in Houston^[1] and later lived in Austin, Texas, going to school at Austin Community College and majoring in education. Krista transferred to, and graduated from, the University of Texas with an education degree. She considered teaching as a profession, interning as a kindergarten teacher, but decided to move back to California and pursue an acting career. Allen also is a certified yoga instructor.^[2]

Career

Allen first gained attention playing the lead role in the erotic cable television series Emmanuelle in Space (1994). Later she appeared on the television shows Days of Our Lives in the role of Billie Reed from 1996–2000, and Baywatch Hawaii as Jenna Avid (2000-2001).

Allen also is well known for playing a sexy virtual reality character Maitreya/Jade Blue Afterglow in an episode of The X-Files. And she is remembered for her brief appearance as the "Elevator Girl" in the Jim Carrey comedy Liar Liar.

In 2002 she appeared in an episode of Friends, "The One Where Joey Dates Rachel" as Joey's girlfriend Mabel. In 2005 she appeared in the short-lived Fox sitcom Head Cases.^[3] In both Smallville and Mutant X, Allen played a woman who could control men with her sex pheromones. In 2001 Allen guest starred in supernatural TV series Charmed as "The Oracle" for three episodes, She also appeared in Toby Keith's video "A Little Too Late", and had a small role in CSI as Kristy Hopkins, a hooker who caught the eye of Nick Stokes, in the pilot episode on October 6, 2000. She returned later in the first season as a murder victim.^[3]

In 2002 she had a role in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.^[4]

In 2005 she was one of the stars of HBO's Unscripted, playing herself as an actress who struggles to overcome her sex symbol status in order to win more serious roles.

Allen had a recurring role on the ABC series What About Brian as Bridget, a reluctant but potential love interest for the main character Brian, played by Barry Watson.^[5]

In 2007 Allen appeared in the ABC reality television series Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, featuring a dozen celebrities in a stock car racing competition. In the first round, she matched up against skateboarder Tony Hawk and rodeo champion Ty Murray.^[6] Allen appeared on the second season of Denise Richards: It's Complicated which premiered on June 7, 2009. Allen also appeared on an episode of NBC's Love Bites in 2011.

In addition to acting, Allen also has done nude modeling, being featured in Spanish magazine, Interviu, and French magazine, Newlook.^{[7][8][9][10]} Allen was featured in Maxim magazine's Girls of Maxim gallery and was Named #70 on the Maxim "Hot 100 of 2005" list.^[11] Allen also is a certified yoga instructor.^[2]

Allen had a T-shirt line called Superexcellent for several years.^[6]

Personal life

Allen is vegan.^[12][13] She runs a blog called Veggie Boom Boom with Katrina McCaffery.^[12] VBB started out as just a vegan blog but grew into much more. Krista currently reviews and blogs about all types of products for OM Magazine.

On 14 September 1996, she married Justin Moritt, a production manager and producer. She gave birth to her first child at age 26, a son Jakob Nolan Moritt (aka Jake Moritt) on July 12, 1997. The couple later divorced in 1999

On October 10, 2010, she married Mams Taylor, an Iranian rapper. They separated in April 2011 and Allen filed for divorce at Los Angeles County Superior Court on February 12, 2012.^[14]

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Krista Allen.

• Krista Allen at AllMovie
• Krista Allen at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Veggie Boom Boom website
• Stuff Magazine Interview
• Official website