Kimleigh Smith

Kimleigh Smith is an actress and director who began her career as a dancer in Chicago, where she moved after graduating from Emporia State University. She spent her first decade in Japan and finished her schooling in Leavenworth, Kansas, then studied psychology and danced with companies that included Gus Giordano Dance and Joel Hall Dance. A dare led her to audition for a play, and she won the part, going on to perform on Chicago stages such as Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre in works like A Clockwork Orange and Puddn'Head Wilson. In Los Angeles she reprised Puddn'Head Wilson at Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre, a production honored with an LA Weekly Theatre Award, and Marshall cast her in her first major film, The Princess Diaries (2001). Her credits also include the solo show T-O-T-A-L-L-Y!, which she wrote and performed, and she is known for Bad Words (2013), Lincoln Heights (2007-2008) and Safe Harbour (2007).