Lauralee Bell

(Christine Blair Williams on THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS) 

Lauralee Bell joined the cast of THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS as Christine “Cricket” Blair in 1983.             

Lauralee Bell won a Daytime Emmy® Award for mi promise, which debuted on Amazon Prime in 2019 for Outstanding Special Class-Short Format Daytime Program and received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2016.  Bell stars in two Lifetime movies based on V.C. Andrews’ books Ruby and Pearl in the Mist in 2021. Bell starred and served as Executive Producer of Lifetime Movie Network’s Nightmare Tenant in 2019 and starred in Mistress Hunter for the same network in 2018. and previously starred in Lifetime’s Past Sins. Bell also won the female lead in her first film, Carpool Guy, the lead and one of the leads in Easy Rider: The Ride Back. All while raising two kids. She's also been creating, producing, writing, and often acting in several web series including Family Dinner, Just Off Rodeo, and mI Promise.  She also guested on CSI:  Miami, and Castle.      

In June 2009, Bell debuted her first Webby Honoree web series, Family Dinner. Bell wrote, directed, and with her husband and Anne Clements, produced the series. The episodes featured Phyllis Diller, Dan Cortese, Cloris Leachman, and Shirley Jones. All the webisodes made the front page of funnyordie.com, the industry’s then-leading humor website. In 2011, Bell launched her next web series, Telly Award-winner Just Off Rodeo to merge her fashion sense with entertainment and merchandising.  She next debuted mI Promise, created to dramatize the results of teen texting and driving, and won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class-Short Format Daytime Program and was also a Webby Award Honoree.       

Lauralee’s late father, William Bell, wrote Days of Our Lives, developed Another World, and wrote/ran Guiding Light and As the World Turns. With Lauralee’s late mother, Lee Phillip Bell, he created the hugely successful, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. The family still lived in Chicago until 1986, when Lee Phillip Bell hosted her own television show on the CBS affiliate, WBBM-TV, and won fifteen Emmys, becoming one of the city’s most recognized personalities. 

At 9, Lauralee asked for a non-speaking extra in an episode of The Young and the Restless. At 13, she had a few lines. An explosion of positive viewer fan mail led to her recurring role. When the family relocated to Los Angeles, Bell became a full-time cast member and was voted “Favorite Soap Opera Actress” in ‘TEEN magazine’s national poll, voted Outstanding Supporting Actress Award at the Soap Opera Awards and for many years, Bell was France's most frequent TV Guide cover subject. She guest-starred in several primetime shows and hosted television specials for E! Entertainment Television, PAX-TV, and a talk show pilot. Bell also spent a decade creating and running two popular clothing boutiques in Los Angeles.             

Lauralee lives in Los Angeles. In 1997, Lauralee married then-photographer Scott Martin at a storybook wedding in Santa Barbara. The couple had their first child, Christian, in January 2001 and their second, Samantha, in October 2002. In 2013, Martin launched 3Labs, Los Angeles' premier event and production facility.

Her birthday is December 22.  Twitter: @LauraleeB4real  Instagram: @lauralee_bell