Biography
The captivating dark-haired Kelly made her professional debut playing a young woman manipulated into killing her stepmother in the TV movie, "Love, Lies and Murder" (1991). The same year, she made her first feature appearance in "The Boy Who Cried Bitch" and gained attention for her brief performance as the title character's neighborhood girlfriend, a teen prostitute and orphan, in "Billy Bathgate" (both 1991). In 1992, Kelly played her first …
Career Milestones
| Raised in Ronkonkoma, New York | ||
1991 | Film debut in "Billy Bathgate" and "The Boy Who Cried Bitch" | |
1991 | TV debut as a killer in "Love, Lies and Murder" | |
1993 | Cast opposite Cuba Gooding Jr in "Daybreak," a made-for-cable movie about an interracial romance | |
1996 | Starred in title role of "Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story" | |
1998 | Co-starred in the CBS series "To Have & To Hold" | |
1999 | Had featured role in the ensemble of the NBC drama series "The West Wing" during the first season | |
2003 | Cast in the drama "The Safety of Objects"; screened at the Toronto Film Festival | |
Awards
2001 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in The West Wing |