Award winning actress, Kimberly J. Brown, began acting in
commercials while modeling for the Ford Agency in New York City
Brown earned her Emmy nomination at age eleven for her portrayal of
"Marah Lewis" on TV's longest running daytime drama, Guiding Light (GL), where she played the emotional
child of popular soap couple Robert Newman (Josh) and Kim Zimmer (Reva) from
1993-1998. She appeared in People magazine (among others) after gaining
national attention for juggling her history-making Broadway career while
receiving several award nominations for her role on GL. Brown won Best Actress
in a Daytime Drama, from Hollywood’s Young
Artists Awards (YAA), and
also scored a Best Actress nomination from the Hollywood Reporter’s, Young Star
Awards (YSA).
The energetic star has also appeared in
Hallmark Hall of Fame’s, Ellen
Foster (which earned her
a Best Supporting Actress nomination by YAA), TheBabysitters
Club and skit
performances for Saturday
Night Live, Late
Show w/ David Letterman, & Conan O’Brien. The young
actress played the lead role of "Gabby," working along side Paul
Sorvino in his TV sitcom pilot, Burning
Down the House. She had several appearances with the Olsen Twins on their
TV sitcom, Two Of A Kind,
and has also appeared on Unhappily
Ever After and Touched By An Angel.
Uttering the immortal "Silly
Rabbit, Trix are for Kids," Brown has lent her voice to many of
General Mills animated commercials, and Disney’s animated feature, A Bug’s Life where she uses her vocals in the role
of an ant. She also voices the animated character's "Miyu" in Miyu: The Vampire Princess and "Lena "
in WB's Little Polar Bear. It is also Brown narrating (with
a North Carolinian accent) Dancing
in the Cadillac Light, a
book on tape by Kimberly Willis Holt.
Brown is best known to the tween set for
her highly rated Disney Channel movies including Halloweentown I, II (Kalabar’s Revenge) and III (Halloweentown High), where she stars with the legendary
Debbie Reynolds as “Marnie," a teenage witch who discovers she has magical
powers. She also starred Quints;
all earning her critical praise from YAA.
The New
York Times labeled Brown's
coming of age role in the Indie film Tumbleweeds:
"...the child performance of the year," where she appeared with Golden
Globe winner and Oscar nominee, Janet McTeer. Numerous critics placed Brown on
the short list for Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and she later went on to
win the Independent Feature Project's (IFP) Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.
Additionally, Brown received the Hollywood
Women's Press Golden Apple Award for Youth Discovery of the Year with Haley Joel Osment. Brown was also
recognized as The National Theater Associations' 1999 Star of Tomorrow, joining past notable
recipients Claire Danes, Cameron Diaz, and Nicole Kidman.
In early 2002, Brown appeared in two TV rating
winners: Stephen King's mini-series Rose Red as "Annie," an autistic and
gifted telekinetic; and Hallmark Hall of Fame's My Sister's Keeper, as "Christine," a
16-year old manic-depressive schizophrenic acting opposite Lynn Redgrave, also
starring Kathy Bates & Elizabeth Perkins.
Later taking a comic turn in the feature
film Bringing Down the
House, Brown won the role of Steve Martin's daughter "Sarah,"
a good girl wanna be bad girl. The comedy, also starring Queen Latifah and
Eugene Levy, reigned number one at the box office for three consecutive
weeks. The versatile actress was also seen as a punked-out music industry
assistant in Be Cool, the sequel to John Travolta’s Get Shorty. The
film stars Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Andre 3000. She starred as the
bad-ass motorcyle riding “Sam” in Universal’s horror feature Big Bad Wolf with Richard
Tyson and Clint Howard, and played an 80’s Tennessee cheerleader in Sony’s
award winning feature Friendship, which was Germany’s # 2 film in
2011.
Brown will next be seen recurring as Ruben Santiago Hudson’s
assistant in the new AMC drama series Low Winter Sun, premiering in Summer
of 2013. She is also currently developing a couple of films, including
co-producing the award-winning screenplay Slot
King, in which she will also act in a supporting role.
