Kristy Connelly

Kristy began her career doing community theater at the age of 5. She started college at the age of 16 and continued performing in theater while studying drama and English literature. She graduated from Boston College with a degree in English Literature and planned to attend law school. Instead, she moved to San Francisco and held various writing positions in the public relations and advertising fields. She left the corporate communications world in 1992 and returned full-time to acting. She is the "girl-next-door" and has appeared in national commercial campaigns for clients such as Crest, Maxwell House, McDonald's, Chevrolet, Ford, Nabisco, Sudafed, Kellogg's Special K, Sprint, Chrysler, Xerox, Johnson & Johnson, Kodak, and Bailey's Irish Creme. She worked with 'Jon Amiel' and 'Lazlo Kovaks' on _Copycat (1994)_ as a stand-in for 'Sigourney Weaver'. She worked with 'Jon Turteltaub' and 'Phedon Papamichael' on the set of _Phenomenon (1995)_ as 'Kyra Sedgewick's' photo double. Her film debut was in Bicentennial Man (1999) starring 'Robin Williams (I)'. She played Bradley Whitford's sister and aged from 28 to 65. Although given screen credit, her scenes were cut from the final film. Her debut television appearance was as a guest star on 'Nash Bridges' with 'Don Johnson' and Kelly Hu. She most recently appeared as a golfer in the live-action sequence in the Academy Award winning Pixar film, WALL-E, with Andrew Stanton directing. She is in-development on a television project and writes a weekly column on tween/teen parenting.