Forgetting Sarah Marshall is almost here, finally, and we'll get to see all of Jason Segel's "glory" as he deals with his bad breakup with Kristen Bell's Marshall. But this is just one of many diverse roles that Bell has taken on lately. She's electric and hot-headed on Heroes, dirt-digging on Gossip Girl, and sadly wrapped her investigation days as Veronica Mars last year.

But these aren't her first forays into the biz. Above, you can check out her one-episode stint in American Dreams from 2003, where she plays a young woman who has had an abortion, and now deals with the caring but judgmental opinions of Gail O'Grady's Helen Pryor.

But after the jump there's also Bell's first gig, even earlier, as an uncredited Teenage Girl in Claire Danes' 1998 film, Polish Wedding. She's just giggling and in the shadows, but you can tell it is Bell in all her tininess. From shadowy giggles to Segel's member, Bell has come a long way!

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Actress Kristen Bell, who I first encountered as a teenage hooker and thief named Flora in the TV show Deadwood, has been steadily building up credits for the past few years, and now appears poised for a breakthrough. Production Weekly has learned that Bell will headline a romantic comedy called Forgetting Sarah Marshall during her next hiatus from the television show Veronica Mars. The film will mark the directing debut of Nick Stoller, who I assume is the same Nicholas Stoller who wrote the Jim Carrey vehicle Fun With Dick and Jane. Bell and co-star Jason Segel will play a boyfriend and girlfriend who break up and then accidentally head to the same vacation resort to get away from each other. Production on the film is scheduled to commence in April, in Hawaii and Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Bell has also lined up another role, this time co-starring alongside William H. Macy in the film Antique, from Renji Philip. Bell's role will be Claire, a girl who befriends a homeless man played by Macy, and presumably learns some kind of life lessons from him. Anne Archer, Rachel Leigh Cook and Lolita Davidovich also have roles in the film. Other upcoming projets for Bell, previously announced, include Fanboys, about some youngsters who embark on a road trip to see Star Wars: Episode 1, and the animated film Flatland: The Movie.

The day I saw Pulse -- which, it must be noted, did not screen for critics -- I spent the morning dealing with Gmail having shut down my e-mail account as an 'automated security procedure' after I'd tried downloading my mail to Outlook. Then, at the gym, I stumbled on the new TreadClimber and nearly split my head open; after that, while text messaging to get show times on my phone, I failed to notice a change in the curb and almost went face-down in the street. So a horror film about modern technology trying to kill us felt like a nice fit for the day; certainly, it had been trying to annoy me to death for the past several hours.

Based on the 2001 Japanese horror film Kairo by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Pulse begins on a college campus: The kids there have all the gizmos and gadgets of modern life, they lived by frantically e-mailing and IM-ing each other. At one point, out for a night on the town, our heroine Mattie (Kristen Bell) gets a text message from her friend Tim (Samm Levine) -- who's sitting two chairs away. It's not funny to Mattie; she's worried about her boyfriend, Josh (Jonathan Tucker). "Our relationship has been reduced to text messaging ...", she notes to her friend Isabell (Christina Milian). "How tragic is that?"

Well, it's about to get a lot more so, as Josh has discovered a computer program -- on some server somewhere he was hacking around on -- that not only really seems to mess up his operating systems and desktop but also functions as a gateway for angry and unyielding undead forces to stalk the world in search of victims to slay; Josh is a victim of those unquiet and hungry spirits early, but he's not the last.