Kim Dickens

Dickens was born in Huntsville, Alabama, graduated from Lee High School, and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where she majored in Communication (B.A. degree). Soon after that she went to New York to continue her studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and graduated at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is also active in Open Stage Theatre. In the late 1990s she moved to L.A..

Dickens made her stage debut in a student production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago at Vanderbilt University. She has appeared in several indie movies, including Palookaville, Voice from the Grave, Truth or Consequences, N.M., Heart Full of Rain, Zero Effect (beside Ryan O'Neal) and Great Expectations. In L.A. she played in Mercury Rising (beside Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin) and other commercial Hollywood productions such as Committed (2000), Hollow Man, The Gift, House of Sand and Fog (with Ben Kingsley) and Thank You for Smoking. She has also had roles on many television movies and shows, including Two Mothers for Zachary, Big Apple, Out of Order, Deadwood, Things Behind the Sun, and Lost.