Kim Dickens

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Kimberly Jan Dickens, born 18 June 1965 in Huntsville, Alabama, is an American actress and model.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Acting career 3 Filmography 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] Biography

Dickens attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where she majored in Communication (B.A. degree). Soon after that she went to New York to continue her studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and graduated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is also active in Open Stage Theatre. In the late 1990s she moved to L.A..

[edit] Acting career

Dickens made her stage debut in a student production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago at Vanderbilt University. She has appeared in several indie movies, including Palookaville, Voice from the Grave, Truth or Consequences, N.M., Heart Full of Rain , Zero Effect (beside Ryan O'Neal) and Great Expectations. In L.A. she played in Mercury Rising (beside Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin) and other commercial Hollywood productions such as Committed (2000), Hollow Man, The Gift, House of Sand and Fog (with Ben Kingsley) and Thank You for Smoking. She has also had roles on many television movies and shows, including Two Mothers for Zachary, Big Apple, Out of Order, Deadwood, Things Behind the Sun, and Lost.

[edit] Filmography

• Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye (2007) ....Mrs. Rambo
• Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006) .... The Counselor
• Thank You for Smoking (2006) .... Jill Naylor
• Lost (2006) .... Cassidy Phillips
• One Way to Valhalla (2005) .... Jenny
• Deadwood (2004/I) TV Series .... Joanie Stubbs
• Goodnight, Joseph Parker (2004) .... Muriel
• House of Sand and Fog (2003) .... Carol Burdon
• "Out of Order" (2003) (mini) TV Series .... Danni
• "Big Apple" (2001/I) TV Series .... Sarah Day
• Things Behind the Sun (2001) .... Sherry
• The Gift (2000) .... Linda
• Hollow Man (2000) .... Sarah Kennedy
• Committed (2000) .... Jenny
• The White River Kid (1999) .... Apple Lisa
• Mercury Rising (1998) .... Stacey Siebring
• Great Expectations (1998) .... Maggie Bell
• Zero Effect (1998) .... Gloria Sullivan
• Heart Full of Rain (1997) (TV) .... Susan Doyle
• Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997) .... Addy Monroe
• Two Mothers for Zachary (1996) (TV) .... Nancy
• Voice from the Grave (1996) (TV) .... Terry Deveroux
• Palookaville (1995) .... Laurie, Russell's Girlfriend

[edit] External links

• Kim Dickens at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] See also

• Famous Alabamians