Kerri Randles

Kerri Randles is an American actress, writer and producer who switched to a theater major at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She studied theater at Victory Gardens with Steven Ivcich and did improvisation with Mick Napier at the Annoyance Theater. Before Hollywood, she was an extra on John Hughes films Home Alone and Curly Sue, then earned an audition for Roseanne. In 1993 Oliver Stone cast her in a small part in Heaven & Earth, which brought her a Screen Actors Guild card. Her first supporting role was Missy in the Showtime Rebel Highway series Jailbreakers in 1994. She played Marilyn Monroe in the HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), and appeared in Poor White Trash (2000), Scenes of the Crime (2002) and Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008). In 2010 the one-woman show Can't You Hear Me Knockin? opened the first Hollywood Fringe Festival and later played Manhattan Theatre Source in New York.