Lauralee Kristen Bell is an American soap opera actress who has a net worth of $200 million. She is best known for starring as Christine Blair on the soap opera The Young and the Restless. She has starred on the show since 1985. She had also had a recurring role as Christine Blair on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2007. She married Scott Martin in 1997 and is the sister of Bradley Beal and the sister-in-law of Maria Arena Bell and Colleen Bell who all work on The Young and the Restless.
Lauralee Bell has appeared in the movies Carpool Guy, Easy Rider 2: The Ride Home, and Deadly Expose. She has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Diagnosis Murder, Walker, Texas Ranger, Pacific Blue, and CSI: Miami. Bell won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2014 for Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime for mI promise. She has also won a Soap Opera Digest Award and a Young Artist Award for The Young and the Restless.
The daughter of soap opera creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, and sister to Bill Bell, Jr. and Bradley Bell as well as sister-in-law to Maria Arena Bell and Colleen Bell, Lauralee was offered a bit role as a model, Christine “Cricket” Blair, on her parents’ show The Young and the Restless in 1983 and that became a contract role in 1986.
Over time, her character matured from a model into a legal aid lawyer. Her character also dropped the childish moniker “Cricket”, especially after her rival Phyllis (Michelle Stafford) turned it into a pun against her, calling her “the Bug.” In January 2005, Bell asked to be released from her contract, and she appears only on a recurring basis.
Lauralee married photographer Scott Martin on October 4, 1997. They have a son, Christian James Martin, born on January 17, 2001, and a daughter, Samantha Lee Martin, born on October 28, 2002. In June 2007, she reprised her role of Christine Blair for a short run on The Bold and the Beautiful. In July 2010, she returned to The Young and the Restless in a recurring capacity. Lauralee co-owned a boutique, On Sunset, which closed in 2009.
