Shea Kerry

Shea Kerry is a Southern boy from the Gulf Coast of Biloxi, Mississippi. Kerry was a child model at 4 years old after being scouted by a photographer taking family photos at the local mall. Kerry became a professional actor at 12 doing local TV commercials and theater, and then began producing and directing TV and film as an intern at the local television station at age 16. He also began working as a Ballroom dance instructor in his senior year of high school. Kerry moved to Los Angeles at age 17. Kerry continued his professional career with acting and directing in the touring company of "A Christmas Carol", and appearing in the film "Norma Jean and Marilyn" (1996) starring Ashley Judd. He was the choreographer and one of the producers for the Angel Awards at the Ambassador Hotel, the famous site of the Cocoanut Grove and the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 4, 1968. Kerry worked with Columbia Pictures on the Discovery Project which won an Academy Award in 1987, and he appeared on the hit TV show Family Ties with Michael J. Fox. One of his most memorable acting roles was his scene with Tracey Ullman on her hit TV show, The Tracey Ullman Show. The show was broadcast live nationwide, and the sustained laughter from the audience reaction to their scene caused Kerry's fellow actor to sit in the wrong chair at the wrong time. The cameras continued to roll while Kerry and Tracey adjusted their positions and completed the scene live. Kerry appeared in the compelling and award winning film "Remnants of Auric Healing" (2004) about a man driven by desperation to confront the obsessions that were destroying his life. In 2005 Kerry was one of the producer for the new Daryl Hannah film, "Love is the Drug" (2006) from Wesley Strick, the writer of "Cape Fear." "Love is the Drug" received critical acclaim from Variety and The New York Times, and premiered in competition at the 2006 Slamdance festival to sold-out SRO audiences. The film will premiere in Los Angeles and Seattle theaters October 2006. Kerry was one of the producers for "Dark Honeymoon" (2007) starring Oscar nominees Roy Scheider and Eric Roberts. Kerry played the role of "Steve" in "Dark Honeymoon." Kerry returned to his hometown on the Gulf Coast in August 2005 to search for his father who was injured and missing in Hurricane Katrina. He was reunited with his father at the VA Hospital in Biloxi. Kerry helped with the Katrina disaster relief and is writing a book titled "Finding My Father" from his experiences on the devastated Gulf Coast. Kerry returned to Los Angeles with a film record that will be broadcast as a documentary in 2008.