Katherine Kendall

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Katherine "Kate" Kendall spent most of her early life in the South. When she was in the second grade, she and her family moved to Washington D.C., where her parents, Syd and Kay, worked for the Carter Administration. Katherine has three siblings - one brother, Syd, the bassist of Les Savy Fav and "French Kiss" Record Label Director, one half-sister, Mallory, who is 9-years-old, and one half-brother, Shane, who is 3- years-old. Katherine spent seven years training with the Washington Ballet, where she was "Clara" in the "Nutcracker" and spent her summers in New York, dancing at the School of American Ballet. In 1990, she went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study acting. She won the Charles Jellinger Award in 1992. She took on challenging roles in Carol Churchill's "Top Girls" and Marsha Norman's "Getting Out". In 1995, she moved to Los Angeles and studied with Sharon Chatten and Jeffrey Tambor.