Before she lit up the small screen as Dr. Addison Montgomery on Greys Anatomy, Kate Walsh was a woman of the theater. She performed in off-Broadway shows and radio plays on NPR. (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images)
The leggy redhead with the porcelain complexion spent the ‘80s modeling in Japan. (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times)
Big screen beginnings
Kate played a bank robbers sister in Normal Life in 1996 and a kleptomaniac in Peppermills in 1997. She also acted in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2 in 1998. (Mark Davis / Getty Images)
Kate goes chubby
To play Drew Careys formerly chunky girlfriend on The Drew Carey Show in 1997, the svelte actress sometimes donned a fat suit. (Mark Davis / Getty Images)
Big break
When Kate was cast as Dr. Addison Montgomery on Grey’s Anatomy in 2005, she shot into the public consciousness overnight. (Karen Neal / AP)
Where theres a Will, theres a Kate
Kate acted with Will Ferrell in Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie in 2004, and in Kicking & Screaming and Bewitched in 2005. (Matt Sayles / AP)
Smell like me
Kate lends her famous face to Caress Exotic Oil Infusions. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)
Sorry fellas, shes taken
“I’m engaged,” Kate told People in 2007. “Alex asked me to marry him and I said yes. We were in San Francisco last week and I’m very, very, very happy.”
Kates Alex is Alex Young, a production co-president at 20th Century Fox. (Charley Gallay / Getty Images)
