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Kate Walsh: Life in pictures

Curtain up! Before she lit up the small screen as Dr. Addison Montgomery on “Grey’s Anatomy,” Kate Walsh was a woman of the theater. She performed in off-Broadway shows and radio plays on NPR.

Curtain up!

Before she lit up the small screen as Dr. Addison Montgomery on “Grey’s Anatomy,” Kate Walsh was a woman of the theater. She performed in off-Broadway shows and radio plays on NPR.  (Bryan Bedder / Getty Images)

Kate Walsh

Model behavior

The leggy redhead with the porcelain complexion spent the ‘80s modeling in Japan.  (Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times)

Kate Walsh

Big screen beginnings

Kate played a bank robber’s 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 Walsh

Kate goes chubby

To play Drew Carey’s formerly chunky girlfriend on “The Drew Carey Show” in 1997, the svelte actress sometimes donned a fat suit.  (Mark Davis / Getty Images)

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Kate Walsh

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)

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Where there’s a Will, there’s 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)

Kate Walsh

Smell like me

Kate lends her famous face to Caress Exotic Oil Infusions.  (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Kate Walsh

Sorry fellas, she’s 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.”

Kate’s “Alex” is Alex Young, a production co-president at 20th Century Fox.  (Charley Gallay / Getty Images)

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