Kim Zimmer

Kim Zimmer is an American actress known for her work in daytime television and theater. Born in Grand Rapids in 1955, she started on stage before taking early television roles as Bonnie Harmer in 1978 on One Life to Live and Nola Dancy Aldrich on The Doctors in 1979. Her best-known part came in 1983, when she was cast as Reva Shayne on Guiding Light. She played Reva until 1990, returned in 1995, and stayed with the show until it ended in 2009. For that role, she received four Daytime Emmy Awards, all for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Other screen work included Santa Barbara from 1992 to 1993, a 1995 Seinfeld episode, and a return to One Life to Live in 2010. She appeared in Body Heat (1981) and, in 2023, the film You Sing Louder, I Sing Louder. On stage, she performed at the Barn Theatre and in Wicked as Madame Morrible from 2012 to 2013.