Katey Sagal Biography

Fast Facts

• Appeared in The Dream Makers, a TV-movie directed by her father, Boris Sagal, but disliked the experience and decided to spend the rest of the 1970s focusing on her singing
• Performed backup for a variety of singers, including Gene Simmons, Olivia Newton-John, Etta James and Tanya Tucker
• Longest-running singing gig was with Bette Midler, as one of her Harlettes, for five years in the late 1970s
• Garnered much attention from TV producers for an appearance in a Los Angeles stage production of The Beautiful Lady
• That catapulted her acting career, beginning with the short-lived '80s sitcom Mary
• Younger brother, Joey Sagal, appeared in a couple of episodes of Married
• With Children
• Appeared in the choir for the music video of "Voices that Care
• " Released her first album, Well, in 1995, writing or helping to write nearly all of the album's tracks; and her second album, Room, in 2004
• Husband Kurt Sutter wrote the role of Gemma in Sons of Anarchy especially for her
• Got her first tattoo at age 50
• Performed four tracks on the soundtrack album Songs of Anarchy: Music from Sons of Anarchy Seasons 1-4, which was released in November 2011