Kim Hawthorne

Kim Hawthorne is an American actress whose early work was on Broadway and in daytime soap operas before she moved into prime time drama. She was born in Jersey City and studied musical theater at Birmingham-Southern College, then made her professional stage debut at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Her first screen part came in an episode of the NBC drama I'll Fly Away, and while in Atlanta she appeared on In the Heat of the Night. She played Belinda Keefer on All My Children from 1995 to 1996, then took over Dana Kramer on Another World in 1997. Between 1997 and 1998 she appeared in the Cy Coleman Broadway musical The Life. From 2000 to 2005 she was a regular on the CBC police drama Da Vinci's Inquest as Det. Rose Williams. She was a regular cast member on the HBO comedy Lucky Louie and from 2016 to 2020 played Kerissa Greenleaf on the Oprah Winfrey Network drama Greenleaf.