Kerri Green
Kerri Green | |
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Born | Kerri Lee Green January 14, 1967 |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1985–2012 |
Kerri Lee Green (born January 14, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in The Goonies (1985), Summer Rental (1985), and Lucas (1986).
Life and career
Green was born on January 14, 1967 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. She grew up in Woodcliff Lake, and attended Pascack Hills High School.[1][2]
Green may be best known for her roles as a young teen in a string of teen flicks in the 1980s, including Summer Rental (1985), in which she starred as the daughter of a stressed-out air traffic controller (John Candy). Her big break came in the 1985 film The Goonies, in which she played cheerleader-turned-adventurer Andrea "Andy" Carmichael.
She gained further critical acclaim for her performance in Lucas (1986), in which she starred as the center of a love triangle between the characters of Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen. However, her next film, Three for the Road (1987), which featured Charlie Sheen and Alan Ruck, did not fare as well. Green appeared in a 1990 episode of In the Heat of the Night. She performed in an independent film called Blue Flame and appeared in two episodes of the television sitcom Mad About You as Paul's secretary. She then took a break from acting to study art at Vassar College, where she was roommates with Marisa Tomei's brother, Adam, and with BioShock developer Ken Levine.[3]
Green eventually co-founded a film production company, Independent Women Artists, with Bonnie Dickenson. With Dickenson, she co-wrote and directed the film adaptation of a play about teen pregnancy called Bellyfruit (1999).
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1985 | The Goonies | Andy Carmichael | |
1985 | Summer Rental | Jennifer Chester | |
1986 | Lucas | Maggie | |
1987 | Three for the Road | Robin Kitteredge | |
1992 | The Burden of Proof | Kate Granum | TV Movie |
1993 | Blue Flame | Rain | |
1993 | Tainted Blood | Tori Pattersen | TV Movie |
1999 | Bellyfruit | Co-writer and director | |
2012 | Complacent | Beth Wilkensen |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1987 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | Calpernia | Episode: "Young Harry Houdini" |
1989 | ABC Afterschool Special | Madeline Green | Episode: "Private Affairs" |
1990 | In the Heat of the Night | Karen Sevrance | Episode: "Triangle" |
1992 | Mad About You | Stacey | Episode: "Out of the Past" Episode: "I'm Just So Happy For You" |
1994 | Café Americain | Kelly | Episode: "All About Kelly" |
1994 | Murder, She Wrote | Sara | Episode: "Murder of the Month Club" |
2000 | ER | Lynn Parker | Episode: "Match Made in Heaven" |
2001 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Michelle | Episode: "Stolen" |
References
- ^ Staff. "At The Movies For A First-Time Star, Life Is Sunny Side Up", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 30, 1986. Accessed September 18, 2011. "During the summer of 1984, would-be movie actress Kerri Green, now 19, was frying up poultry parts at the local Roy's near her Woodcliff Lake, N.J., home and commuting into New York for auditions."
- ^ Joyner, Will. "The Subtle Shade Of Kerri Green", The Record, March 28, 1986. "In the fall of 1984, though, a successful audition for Steven Spielberg's The Goonies allowed Kerri to stop speculating and to steal away from her senior year at Pascack Hills High School."
- ^ Suellentrop, Chris (December 6, 2012). "Why BioShock Infinite's Creator Won't Settle for Success". Wired. 21 (1). Condé Nast. Retrieved April 8, 2013.
External links
- Kerri Green at IMDb
- 1967 births
- Actresses from New Jersey
- American child actresses
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- Jewish American actresses
- Pascack Hills High School alumni
- People from Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
- Vassar College alumni
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Living people