Kelly Overton

Kelly Overton is an American actress who grew up in Wilbraham, Massachusetts and trained in New York City at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating with its top honor, the Charles Jehlinger Award. She performed off Broadway and in regional Shakespeare before moving into television in 2000 as Rainn Wilkins on All My Children. In 2002 she reached Broadway in the first stage company of The Graduate, covering several roles before taking over as Elaine Robinson opposite Kathleen Turner and Jason Biggs. She plays Christie Monteiro in Tekken (2010) and appeared as the werewolf Rikki Naylor on the HBO series True Blood. She co-starred as Ann in In My Sleep (2010), and on The Collective she was a writer, director and producer as well as an actor. In 2016 she was cast as the lead, Vanessa Helsing, in the Syfy series Van Helsing.