Quick Facts
Biography
Elizabeth Sagal (born October 9, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress, screenwriter and film editor. Sagal is part of a family of entertainment industry professionals. She is the daughter of director Boris Sagal and the stepdaughter of Marge Champion. In addition to her twin sister, two of her other siblings, older sister Katey Sagal and brother Joey Sagal, are notable in the industry and her other brother, David Sagal, is an attorney married to actress McNally Sagal.
Career
Acting
Sagal and her twin sister, Jean Sagal served for a time as the "Doublemint Twins" in the ad campaign by Doublemint gum.
The pair also appeared together as cheerleaders in the 1982 movie, Grease 2. In the 1980s, Liz and Jean starred in the television series Double Trouble that ran from 1984 to 1985. Sagal has since appeared on such shows as Knots Landing and Picket Fences.
She played a part in the film Howard the Duck, as a member of the fictional band "Cherry Bomb", in conjunction with which she contributed vocals to the songs "Hunger City", "Don't Turn Away (Reprise)", "It Don't Come Cheap" and "Howard the Duck".
Writing
She has worked as a writer on such shows as Mad About You, Monk and Charmed, also serving as executive story editor on the last. She also wrote for the Netflix reboot of Lost in Space.
Film credits
Writer
- Mad About You (1997)
- Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1998–2002)
- Monk (2004)
- Charmed (2005–2006)
- Vanished (2007)
- Sons of Anarchy (2009–2013)
- Da Vinci's Demons (2015)
- Banshee (2016)
- Feed the Beast (2016)
- Loco x vos (2016)
- Midnight, Texas (2017)
- Lost in Space (2019)
Actor
- Grease 2 (1982) - Sorority Girl
- Flashdance (1983) - Sunny
- Double Trouble (1984, TV Series) - Allison Foster
- Howard the Duck (1986) - Ronette, Cherry Bomb
- Skinheads (1989) - Amy
- Life on the Edge (1992) - Mandy
- Picket Fences (1993, TV Series) - Ellen Shannon