Krista Allen
American actress
Krista Allen (born April 5, 1971) is an American actress, comedian and model. Allen is known for playing soap opera roles, including Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives (1996–1999) and Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful (2021–2023), earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the latter and the erotic series Emmanuelle in Space (1994).
Allen held roles in the drama series Baywatch (2000–2001), and played herself in the HBO series Project Greenlight and Unscripted (both 2005). Her film appearances include the comedies Liar Liar (1997) and Anger Management (2003), the biographical spy feature Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and the supernatural horror The Final Destination (2009).
Early life
Allen was born on April 5, 1971, in Ventura, California, and grew up in Texas. Her parents divorced when she was young and married other people. She has an older brother. When Allen was fourteen, she ran away from home and lived with friends for two years. She said in 1997 that her family was "very disorganized" at the time.
She competed in beauty pageants as a teen and modeled for Budweiser, posing for billboards, catalogs, and calendars.
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