Kristy Connelly
- Actress
Kristy began her career doing community theater at the age of 5. She
started college at the age of 16 and continued performing in theater
while studying drama and English literature. She graduated from Boston
College with a degree in English Literature and planned to attend law
school. Instead, she moved to San Francisco and held various writing
positions in the public relations and advertising fields. She left the
corporate communications world in 1992 and returned full-time to
acting. She is the "girl-next-door" and has appeared in national
commercial campaigns for clients such as Crest, Maxwell House,
McDonald's, Chevrolet, Ford, Nabisco, Sudafed, Kellogg's Special K,
Sprint, Chrysler, Xerox, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, and Bailey's Irish
Creme. She worked with 'Jon Amiel' and 'Lazlo Kovaks' on _Copycat
(1994)_ as a stand-in for 'Sigourney Weaver'. She worked with 'Jon
Turteltaub' and 'Phedon Papamichael' on the set of _Phenomenon (1995)_
as 'Kyra Sedgewick's' photo double. Her film debut was in
Bicentennial Man (1999) starring
'Robin Williams (I)'. She played
Bradley Whitford's sister and aged from
28 to 65. Although given screen credit, her scenes were cut from the
final film. Her debut television appearance was as a guest star on
'Nash Bridges' with 'Don Johnson' and Kelly Hu.
She most recently appeared as a golfer in the live-action sequence in
the Academy Award winning Pixar film, WALL-E, with Andrew Stanton
directing. She is in-development on a television project and writes a
weekly column on tween/teen parenting.
