After
starring
as
brainy
Ren
Stevens
for
three
years
on
Even
Stevens,
bringing
the
titular
Kim
Possible
to
life,
and
starring
opposite
Hilary
Duff
in
the
2002
DCOM
Cadet
Kelly,
Christy
Carlson
Romano
took
to
Broadway
for
a
31-week
run
in
Disney’s
Beauty
and
the
Beast
in
2004,
playing
Belle,
before
returning
to
the
famed
theater
district
in
2008,
joining
the
company
of
Avenue
Q.
She
wrote
a
novel,
Grace’s
Turn,
in
2007,
directed
a
feature
film,
Christmas
All
Over
Again,
in
2016,
earned
a
degree
in
Film
Studies
from
Barnard
College,
and
married
writer-producer
Brendan
Rooney
on
December
31,
2013.
The
couple
have
two
daughters,
the
youngest
born
in
February
2019.
Christy
returned
to
the
network
that
made
her
a
household
name
in
2019
with
a
role
in
the
live-action
Kim
Possible
film,
playing
pop
star
Poppy
Blu.
In
May
2019,
she
also
opened
up
about
the
difficulties
she
faced
coming
out
of
her
years
as
the
network’s
star
in
a
powerful
essay
for
Teen
Vogue. “I
have
never
been
perfect
or
pulled
together
as
my
reputation
or
the
success
of
my young
adulthood
might
suggest,”
she
confessed. “During
a
period
of
time
in
my
life,
I
grappled
with
depression, drinking,
and
more,
desperate
to
find
fixes
for
how
I
felt.”
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