No, actresses Kristen Bell and Catherine Bell are not related.
By blood, Catherine is half-Iranian and half-English. Her mother, Mina Ezzati, went to London to study nursing and married a Scotsman, Peter Bell.
Catherine was born in 1968. But her parents divorced when Catherine was 2 and she was raised by her Iranian mother, grandmother and grandfather.
Kristen Bell was born on July 18, 1980, in Huntington Woods, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, to mom, Lorelei, and dad, Tom, a TV news director.
Like Catherine, her parents divorced when she was still a toddler and her mother also studied nursing. Lorelei has been a practicing nurse for 4 decades now.
She has two stepsisters from her father's remarriage, Sara and Jody (both born in Canada) and four step-siblings, Laura, John, Matt and Megan, from her mother's second marriage.
Family names (also known as surnames) provide an obvious clue to a person’s origin. And yet, as any genealogist can tell you, surnames can be difficult to work with and research into surnames often yield unexpected surprises.
In particular, two people with the same surname do not necessarily share a common ancestor. Find out why at Genealogyintime.com.
Of interest, here are 11 Pairs of Unrelated Famous People Who Share a Name, featured on MentalFloss.com.