Biography

Kelsey Wedeen was born in San Francisco, California, but grew up in Los Angeles. She is the youngest of four girls in her family and the granddaughter of "Frances Kavanaugh", one of Hollywood's first female western screenwriters. Kelsey spent the majority of her youth training to be an Olympic gymnast, but eventually found her passions straying and made the leap into the arts. She began studying acting in both Los Angeles and New York and soon found herself on stage at such renowned theaters as The Lee Strasberg Theatre, the John Anson Ford Theatre, the Theatre of NOTE and the Sacred Fools Theatre. She received two LA Weekly awards for her work in "Darkness" and "A Mulholland Christmas Carol." She fell into her first film role in 2003 in a low-budget horror movie called Detour, which led to appearing in a long string of other B-horror flicks, all of which allowed her to explore fun, campy characters. After proving her weight as a scream queen, she was able to branch out into bona fide comedy when she booked a small role as an Irish bridesmaid in The Wedding Crashers, did improv on ABC's Who's Line is it Anyway, and Chelsea Handler's Oxygen series, Girls Behaving Badly. She then went on to produce and star in the campy, 60s spy-spoof, Scream of the Bikini, (for which she received a "Best Actress" nomination). She's starred in several other independent films and shorts such as "Kill Me Deadly," "Blonde," and her most recent indie-drama,"Konflooent" which debuted at the Cannes Film festival. She also writes and stars in a new comedy series, Everyone Counts, which can be viewed on Funny or Die.
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