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Kira Reed
Born (1971-10-13) October 13, 1971 (age 53)
Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Other namesKira Reed Lorsch
Alma materUCLA's School of Theatre, Film and Television
Occupation(s)Actress, television host, writer and PGA producer
Years active1992-Present
Spouse(s)
Dan Anderson
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(m. 1997⁠–⁠2003)​

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(m. 2008; died 2017)​
Websitekirareedlorsch.com

Kira Katherine Reed (born October 13, 1971),[1] also known as Kira Reed Lorsch, is an American actress and television host, writer and producer.[2][3]

Early life

Reed was born in Santa Clara, California, and by age five was performing in school plays and local dance recitals. By age 10, she was doing commercials and local catalog modeling. When her family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, she attended the Youth Performing Arts School and then went on to graduate from UCLA's School of Theatre, Film and Television.[2]

Career

In addition to appearances as "Herself" and/or on behalf of organizations she works with, the list of Reed's credits includes producer, writer, director, and stunt person.[citation needed] She has appeared in movies, including starring roles in Red Shoe Diaries and The Price Of Desire,[4] and on network television, on shows such as ER, NYPD Blue and The War at Home. She was a reporter and producer on Playboy TV's series Sexcetera,[2] produced the second season of the Naked Happy Girls series and was both a writer and supervising producer on Playboy's hit travel/reality show 69 Sexy Things 2 Do Before You Die.[3] Reed has worked as the backstage host for the Daytime Emmy Awards[citation needed] and a reporter for the Hollywood Christmas Parade.[5] She was featured on Bravo Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis with her husband Robert Lorsch.[citation needed]

She is president of The RHL Group, an event-production, publication and entertainment company founded by Robert Lorsch,[6] producing charity events, feature films and television programming.[7] In December 2012, RHL published Reed's Score: How to Win the Girl of Your Dreams.[8] She has done SCORE book signing events in the US and in the UK in partnership with Hard Rock Cafe.[9] The RHL Group joined forces with Pure Flix and Universal Pictures to Executive Produce the 2020 feature revenge thriller Beckman with Kira starring alongside David A.R. White and William Baldwin.[citation needed]

Reed joined the cast of the Emmy nominated The Bay in 2014 and its producing team soon thereafter.[10][11] The drama series won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series - New Approaches in 2015[12] and Reed herself took home an Emmy as a producer on the show in 2016.[citation needed] and again in 2017.[13] In 2018, she received her first acting Emmy nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series for her role of "Jo Connors" on The Bay.[14] She was nominated for Best Actress for her portrayal of "Morgan" in the feature Acts of Desperation, and received a Lifetime Achievement award for her body of work in independent film at the 2019 New Vision International Film Festival.[15]

She is a global brand ambassador for Donore Cosmetics, which launched Kira's Organic CBD Bronzing Cream in December 2018.[16] Reed's website, KiraReedLorsch.com, states that she has served as an entertainment reporter for Associated Television International.[7]

Reed's appearances in erotica included posing for Playboy Magazine in December 1996, in a group pictorial of women from the television series Women: Stories of Passion,[citation needed] and appearing in direct-to-video (DTV) movies like Secrets of a Chambermaid.[17] In The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Linda Ruth Williams cited Reed and Delia Sheppard as examples of actresses who worked "...in B-scale erotic thrillers at the fringes of Hollywood, the obvious trajectory for a strip-circuit veteran (DTV divas Kira Reed and Delia Sheppard both started as showgirls.)"[18]: 177  The book also reproduces a quote from an article at Playboy.com, with Williams again making specific reference to Reed. "Video may have killed the radio star, but it proved a real boon to Playmates in the Eighties, who played a not insignificant role in that decade's video revolution"[18]: 301  Reed also produced and starred in erotica with her first husband, Dan Anderson, on their website marriedcouple.com.[2][19][20] They took part in Juli Ashton's Essentially Fresh;[20] which was subsequently featured in Ashton's Wicked Pictures production Basically Becca (2001).[21]

Personal life

Reed's marriage to Anderson lasted five years.[22] She then married Robert Lorsch (died 2017) in 2008. Kira Reed Lorsch served as President of the mental health awareness organization The Thalians supporting programs for the wounded military men and women and their families of UCLA Operation Mend.[23][24] She also supports Shelter Hope Pet Shop, a Thousand Oaks animal rescue group that puts dogs that might otherwise face euthanasia up for adoption instead. She appears as Ms. June in Shelter Hope's 2015 fundraising calendar.[25] Kira serves on the Board of Trustees of California Science Center home of the Robert H. Lorsch Family Pavilion.[26] Ms. Lorsch is also a member of The Cedars-Sinai Board Of Governors (BOG).[27]

She was profiled in Angeleno Magazine's "Dynamic Women of Los Angeles" 2018[28] and in "Icons Of Beverly Hills" in Modern Luxury Beverly Hills' Fall/Winter 2018-2019 issue.[29] She was the inaugural recipient of the Icon Award for Women In Philanthropy presented at the 4th Annual Roger Neal Oscar Viewing Dinner, Icon Awards and Party.[30]

Filmography

Television

Movies

  • Beckman (2020) .... Janice
  • Witches of Amityville Academy (2020) .... Sam
  • Acts of Desperation (2018) .... Morgan
  • Thalians 56th Anniversary Gala (2014) .... Host/Herself
  • Vampire (2010) .... Chloe
  • Demon's Claw (2006) .... Elizabeth Balthory
  • Jailbait (2004) .... Nurse Jeri
  • BachelorMan (2003) .... Courtney Love Wannabe
  • The Final Victim (2003) .... Nadia
  • The Big Chingon (2003) .... Sara
  • Cheerleader Ninjas (2002) .... Fantasy Girl
  • Just Can't Get Enough (2002) .... Amber Lee
  • Demon Under Glass (2002) .... Chloe Martin
  • Rage of the Innocents (2001) .... Erica
  • Amy's Orgasm (2001, also known as Amy's O) .... Shannon Steele
  • Forbidden Highway (2001)[31] .... Cherry
  • The Mistress Club (2000) .... Trudy
  • House of Love (2000) .... Darby
  • Fast Lane to Malibu (2000)[31] .... Officer Taylor
  • Surrender (2000) .... Lauren
  • Luck of the Draw (2000) .... Zippo's Boudoir Girl
  • Shadow Dancer (1999) .... Janet
  • Wasteland Justice (1999) .... Shanna
  • Thriller: Caron (1999) .... Caron
  • Killing the Vision (1999) .... Reporter
  • Alien Files (1998) (as Kira Lee) .... Agent Forrest
  • A Place Called Truth (1998) .... Kit
  • Losing Control (1998) .... Kim
  • Secrets of a Chambermaid (1998) .... Odile
  • Carnal Fate (1998) .... Mimi
  • Too Good to Be True (1997/II) .... Darcy
  • Madam Savant (1997) .... Suzy Largo
  • The Price of Desire (1997) .... Monica
  • The Night That Never Happened (1997) .... Claire
  • Fallen Angel (1997) (as Kira Lee) .... Kristi
  • The Lady in Blue (1996) .... Carla
  • Damien's Seed (1996) .... Carol
  • Secret Places (1996) .... Holly

See also

References

  1. ^ Mr. Skin (November 10, 2009). Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked (Second ed.). St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0312584023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Kira Reed's Glamourcon Interview". Glamourcon.com. 2003-06-01. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
  3. ^ a b "Northaven Volleyball Program". Northavenresort.com. 2007-05-15. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
  4. ^ "The Price of Desire".
  5. ^ Reed, Kira. "Kira Reed Lorsch on the Hollywood Christmas Parade Red Carpet 2012". YouTube.com. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  6. ^ "RHL Group". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  7. ^ a b KiraReedLorsch.com Retrieved 1 June 2015
  8. ^ Reed, Kira (December 12, 2012). Score: How to Win the Girl of Your Dreams. The RHL Group, Inc. ISBN 0615676154.
  9. ^ "Kira Reed Lorsch to appear at the Hard Rock Cafe London July 12th". livestylepressreleases.com. 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  10. ^ Staff. "YAHOO NEWS: Kira Reed Lorsch Joins Cast of Emmy(R) Nominated The Bay". www.thebaytheseries.com. Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  11. ^ Staff. "Kira Reed Lorsch Joins Cast of Emmy(R) Nominated The Bay". www.finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  12. ^ Staff. "THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR THE 42nd ANNUAL DAYTIME CREATIVE ARTS EMMY® AWARDS". Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  13. ^ "The Bay, The Series makes Daytime Emmy History!". HuffPost. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  14. ^ http://www.eonline.com/news/922201/2018-daytime-emmy-nominations-kelly-ripa-steve-harvey-and-more-nominees
  15. ^ https://www.ktvn.com/story/40978458/emmy-winner-kira-reed-lorsch-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-award-at-new-vision-international-film-festival
  16. ^ "Kira's Organic CBD Bronzing Cream By Donore". Donore Cosmetics.
  17. ^ Krzywinska, Tanya, Sex and the Cinema, Wallflower Press, London (2006) p. 1. ISBN 1-904764-73-8
  18. ^ a b Williams, Linda Ruth (2005). The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21836-5.
  19. ^ Reed, Kira. "Kira Reed Studios". Archived from the original on September 18, 2004. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
  20. ^ a b c d Sechrest, Jason (August 1, 2001). "Married Couple Presents Keri Windsor Live This Sunday". Adult Industry News. DV8 P.R. Retrieved 2013-05-24.
  21. ^ "Basically Becca". Rancho Carne: Reviews of Adult Everything. March 4, 2002. Retrieved 2013-05-25.
  22. ^ "AudreyHepburn" (November 30, 2007). "Letters & Transcripts: An Interview with Dan Anderson". Literotica.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
  23. ^ Olivier, Ellen, Thalians Honor Hugh Hefner; Jeffrey Ross Acts as Roastmaster General as Stars Salute “Mr. Wonderful”, Society News LA, 19 September 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  24. ^ Facter, Sue, Smokey Robinson Honored by the Thalians Archived 2014-12-18 at the Wayback Machine, The Tolucan Times, 5 May 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
  25. ^ Bitcong, Anna, Animal rescue supporters go for bare Archived 2014-12-19 at the Wayback Machine, Thousand Oaks Acorn, 23 October 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  26. ^ "Science Center Governance". California Science Center. June 23, 2014.
  27. ^ "Board of Governors". Cedars-Sinai.
  28. ^ "ANGE Angeleno December 2018 Page 108". digital.modernluxury.com.
  29. ^ "MLBH Beverly Hills Fall/Winter 2018 - 2019 Page 82". digital.modernluxury.com.
  30. ^ "Oscars 2019: Complete Guide to Events and Parties (Updating) | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com.
  31. ^ a b Andrews, David, Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in its Contexts Ohio State University Press (2006). ISBN 0-8142-1022-8
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