- Won Broadway's 1955 Tony Award as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "The Bad Seed," a role she reprised in her Oscar-nominated performance in the film version, The Bad Seed (1956).
- Daughter, Kelly Lurie Caro, was born 11 weeks prematurely on January 21, 1957, weighing only 2 lb. 1.5 oz. Her father was Warren Caro, a Theatre Guild executive, Kelly's third husband. Kelly and Caro divorced in 1968. Caro died on New Years Day 1995, one day before Nancy Kelly died at age 73.
- Film Daily, Page 7, June 5, 1929 reports: "Little Nancy Kelly...has worked in 23 pics during the past two years; Nancy must be the most photographed child in America due to commercial posing."
- Daughter of John Augustus Kelly and his wife, actress Nan Kelly. Older sister of actors Jack Kelly and Carol Kelly, and non-actor William Clement Kelly. Ex-sister-in-law of Liam O'Brien and May Wynn.
- In addition to The Bad Seed (1956), other highlights of her film career included playing opposite Edmond O'Brien and Robert Preston in Parachute Battalion (1941); starring opposite Joel McCrea in He Married His Wife (1940); and appearing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone (1939). Later, she acted exclusively on television.
- Ex-daughter-in-law of Fred Jackman.
- Buried at Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles County, California, Plot Garden of Roses, tiny bronze plaque.
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