Kinga Philipps

Actress and journalist Kinga Philipps, born in Warsaw and raised in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is a graduate of Oklahoma State University who built a career across television, film and unscripted hosting. Her screen acting includes guest turns on Scandal, Cold Case and The West Wing, plus According to Jim and Eleventh Hour, with further television credits on NCIS: Los Angeles and Perception, and film parts in Tomcats, Torque and 20 Feet Below: The Darkness Descending (2014); she also played the mother of Austin Powers in Austin Powers in Goldmember. For 20 Feet Below she won Best Actress at the 2013 Action On Film International Film Festival. As a presenter she was one of the first hosts on Current TV, fronting Google Current and later Yahoo Current Driver and Yahoo Current Traveler, before hosting Syfy's Legend Quest, National Geographic Channel's America's Lost Treasures and two Travel Channel series, The Wild Side With Kinga Philipps, plus Real.