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Kristin Bauer van Straten
Kristin Bauer van Straten at the San Diego Comic-Con International, on July 23, 2010.
Born
Kristin Neubauer

Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, USA
Occupation(s)Film, television actress
Years active1994-present
SpouseAbri van Straten (2009-present)
Websitewww.kristinbauer.com

Kristin Bauer van Straten (born Kristin Neubauer[1]) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her role as vampire Pam in the HBO series True Blood.

Biography

Bauer was born in Racine, Wisconsin, to Ralph and Sara Neubauer.[1] Her father was an avid horseman and gun collector and her mother was a housewife involved in charities. In childhood she played sports and, like her father, rode horses and shot guns. She graduated from The Prairie School in Racine.[1]

Bauer studied fine arts in St. Louis, Boston and New York in her youth, but decided to become an actress and moved to Los Angeles, where she has been living since she began acting in 1994. She continues to draw and paint. Her works include commissioned portraits.

Bauer carries out conservation work to improve the treatment of animals. She lives with many rescued animals at her home in Los Angeles.

On August 1, 2009, Bauer married South African musician Abri van Straten, of the group The Lemmings, at her family’s farm in Wisconsin.

Bauer is a vegetarian.

Acting career

In 1995 she had her first recurring role in a television series, as Maggie Reynolds on The Crew. Other recurring roles are those of Geneva Renault in Total Security, Candy Cooper in That's Life, Rebecca Colfax in Dirty Sexy Money, and Belinda Slypich in Hidden Hills.

Perhaps her best-known film role was in Dancing at the Blue Iguana in 2000. Bauer played a porn star appearing as the featured act at a Los Angeles strip club and performed an extended nude dance. In 2001 she starred in the award winning short film Room 302 and in 2004 she had a minor role in 50 First Dates, starring Adam Sandler. In the animated series Justice League she supplied the voice of the superhero Mera.

She has also made a number of guest appearances in several television shows, including LA Law, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Dark Angel, Two and a Half Men, Star Trek: Enterprise, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Desperate Housewives, and George Lopez.

She famously appeared in a Seinfeld episode (The Bizarro Jerry) as Gillian, Jerry's girlfriend with "man hands".

Bauer currently plays vampire Pam on the HBO series True Blood.[2] On December 8, 2009, TVGuide.com confirmed Kristin has become a series regular.[3]

Activism

In 2011 Kristin teamed with the Animal Legal Defense Fund in the fight to free Tony, a 10-year-old Siberian-Bengal tiger who has spent every day and night of the last decade at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana.[4]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c "Racine native flying high in Hollywood". The Journal Times.com. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
  2. ^ Kristin Bauer Becomes a True Blood Regular
  3. ^ Natalie Abrams. "True Blood's Kristin Bauer Becomes Series Regular". TVGuide.com.
  4. ^ "Kristin Bauer Takes a Bite out of Animal Cruelty". aldf.org.
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