- Kristen looks up to Gilda Radner and Madeline Kahn female comedians.
- She is a trained singer.
- Kristen is a big hockey fan.
- She went skydiving on New year’s Eve in Florida.
- The dress she wore to the 2005 Teen Choice Awards is a Vintage Dress she found in a thrift shop.
- Lola & Mr. Shakes appeared in the episode “Hot Dogs” on Veronica Mars.
- Attended Shrine Catholic High School in Royal Oak, Michigan.
- Plays a 17-year-old on “Veronica Mars” (2004) but is 7 years older than her character.
- Attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan. There she was known as “Annie Bell”, because “Annie” was her favorite musical.
- Has two sisters – Sara and Jody.
- At an early age Kristen wanted to be called Smurfette and Matthew. Instead they called her by her middle name, Annie.
- Is of Polish descent.
- 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.
- Originated the role of Becky Thatcher in the short-lived “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
- Attended New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts.
- She majored in Musical Theatre.
- Her best friend Jenny died right before she went to NYU in a car accident.
- Kristen was only #68 on Maxim’s Hot 100 for 2005. She was in good company in the lower echelons.
- Kristen is a dog person and feeds kibble to and walks Lola and Mr. Shakes, who have now qualified for a SAG card by appearing in the Hot Dogs episode of Veronica Mars.
- Kristen has two stepsisters by her father’s remarriage – Sara and Jody. They were both born in Canada.
- Kristen is an investor in bar L’Scorpion.
- Kristen says she was a vegan in high school, but had to give it up because of her love of cheese.
- Kristen helped deliver two babies while doing volunteer work in Brazil.
- Kristen was rumored to have been offered a role on Lost, but no offer was ever extended. Kristen joked in an interview with Craig Ferguson on the Late Late Show that she would love to be on Lost so she could move to Hawaii.
- Kristen uses the internet to go on to YouTube because it makes her laugh and to check her e-mail, nothing else. However. in July 2009, she also signed up for her own Twitter account.
– Kristen fell off a horse while filming Forgetting Sarah Marshall. As a result she spent a lot of the film walking “with a pirate’s limp”.
- After living in New York City for five years, Kristen drove cross-country to Los Angeles with her mother.
- Her mother says that when Kristen was four, she used to drag her bowl to the floor and eat next to the dog dish.
- Kristen grew up close to the US/Canada border. In fact, both of her sisters were born in Canada. She thought it very funny that they had ID cards that read “Alien.”
- Kristen showed her support for the Writers Guild of America during the writers’ strike and walked the picket lines in December 2007.
- Kristen was the subject of two questions on Jeopardy!.
- Kristen’s parents, Tom and Lorelei Bell, divorced when she was two years old. Her father is a television news director. Her mother is a registered nurse.
- Kristen appeared in AE Winter Tales – Gifts, a holiday-themed stop-animation short films for American Eagle Outfitters. The digital shorts also featured Lil Jon, Pete Wentz and Adrianne Palicki. It was produced and directed by Milo Ventimiglia, Kristen’s co-star from Heroes.
- Kristen said, during an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, that she broke both her wrists while playing hockey.
- She loves animals and often volunteers for animal related charities, the Rancho Santa Fe Animal Shelter among them. Kristen collects stray animals and sometimes shelters them in her home.
- Kristen is a vegetarian but loves cheese.
- Kristen loves nerds.
- Kristen was named the Popular Television Actress Most AIM users wanted to Add to Their Buddy Lists, and received the AIM Best TV Buddy award.
- Kristen turned down the lead role in the stage version of the musical Xanadu
- Kristen’s favourite video-games are Mario Kart and James Bond on the Nintendo 64.
- Kristen voiced Lucy Stillman in Assassin’s Creed, video-game by UbiSoft released November of 2007. Her face and body were scanned in 3D for incorporation into the game.
- Kristen has three dogs: Lola and Mr Shakes, 2 Corgi mutts, and Sadie, a 13 year old Black Labrador rescued from New Orleans post-Katrina.
- Kristen drives a Saturn hybrid, as did her title-character in the third season of Veronica Mars.
- Kristen appeared on the CW Network preview show. Her bangs kept getting in her eyes and she said that plot lines for this season are top secret.
- Kristen became a vegetarian at age 11 because she couldn’t disassociate between hamburger and her dog. She was also was traumatized by dry, chewy Detroit pork chops.
- Kristen’s favorite TV shows: Extreme Home Makeover, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, America’s Funniest Home Videos.
- Kristen auditioned for the role of Chloe Sullivan on Smallville, but lost out to Allison Mack.
- She was voted “Best Looking Girl” by her Royal Oak High School senior class.
- As a high school senior, Kristen worked at TCBY in Royal Oak, Michigan.
- Kristen’s favorite episode of Veronica Mars is the fourth episode of season one, The Wrath of Con.
- Kristen has been featured three times in TV Guide, twice being interviewed.
- Kristen moved to New York at 18 to go to college.
- Kristen says her sister having a baby is way more important than shooting an episode of Veronica Mars.
- Kristen is 5’1″ tall. She has blue eyes and blond hair.
- Kristen was on the hit MTV series, Punk’d. She was being accused of stealing a dog when she really found it.
- Kristen was a guest co-host on The View during Elizabeth Hasselback’s maternity leave.
- Kristen portrayed a 13-year-old in Stephen Sondheim’s musical A Little Night Music at Los Angeles’ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Summer 2004 and played the title role in Sneaux!, the SINsational Gothic Figure Skating Musical on the Los Angeles stage in 2003.
- Kristen competed in the Emmy Idol competition in 2005′s Emmy Award Ceremonies. She sang the theme song from “Fame,” in which her Veronica Mars co-star Erica Gimpel appeared.
- Kristen plays the teenage daughter of a private investigator on Veronica Mars, but is seven years older than her character.
- Kristen attended Burton Elementary School in Huntington Woods, Michigan. There she was known as “Annie Bell”, because “Anne” is her middle name.
- Kristen’s picture was on front of a hockey ticket when she was younger. It was of her and the Stanley Cup. It is the most illustrious prize in hockey.
- If Kristen had to choose between hockey and Brad Pitt, she would choose hockey. The Detroit Red Wings is the hockey team that she loves.
- When she was younger, she hated being called Kristen, she wanted to be called Smurfette and Matthew. Instead her parents called her by her middle name, Annie.
- In 2006, Kristen appeared in a TV commercial for Old Navy. As a teen, Kristen appeared in United Way commercials in the greater Detroit area. She reportedly looked much the same at 10 as she does now.
- Kristen made some of her earliest on-screen appearances in Bar Mitzvah videos during her days at Norup Middle School.
- In 2005, Kristen bought a house in Los Angeles, which she renovated to Green standards with the help of Veronica Mars co-star Ed Begley Jr. She shared the house with boyfriend Kevin Mann, a high school swim coach and independent film producer.