Kerry Knuppe

Kerry Knuppe, an Oglala Lakota actress, playwright and screenwriter, was born in Hot Springs in 1983 and grew up on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. On film she has appeared in the western The Old Way (2023), The Blind (2023), R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022) and On Sacred Ground (2023); her part in the last of those brought her the outstanding leading-actress honor at the 2022 Red Nation Film Festival. She played Doris Mayfair in Ratched and Sally in Hollywood, and has also been seen in The Pitt, Pachinko and Criminal Minds: Evolution, besides voicing Terra in the animated Harley Quinn. Her plays include Family Plot and Ellie, along with The Decision and Morning View Drive, and she has acted in productions of Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie. She is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.