Biografi
Kim Staunton is an acclaimed actress with extensive experience in stage, film, television, and audiobooks. Originally from Washington, DC, she is a distinguished alumna of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where influential mentors like Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Mike Malone, Israel Hicks, and Glenda Dickerson helped shape her artistic growth. She further refined her talents over four years at the Juilliard School and began her professional career immediately after graduation.
With a career spanning more than 35 years, Kim has worked alongside notable figures such as Samuel L. Jackson in Changing Lanes, Eddie Murphy in Holy Man, Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan in First Sunday, and Delroy Lindo in the TNT Original Movie Glory & Honor. Her film credits include supporting and featured roles in Heat, Dragonfly, Bark!, Amos & Andrew, Deceived, and A Shock To The System.
Kim’s television work includes guest starring roles on This Is Us, Army Wives, Eleventh Hour, The Nine (recurring), Bones, Strong Medicine, Judging Amy, City of Angels, Law & Order, New York Undercover, Crime Story, as well as appearances on the soap operas One Life to Live and As the World Turns.
She has been a guest company member at the Denver Center Theater Company for 14 seasons, where she portrayed iconic roles such as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Mama Nadi in Ruined, Rose in Fences, and Black Mary in Gem of the Ocean. Representing DCTC, Kim was an inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow at the Ten Chimneys Foundation, led by the esteemed Lynn Redgrave. She also collaborated with legendary theater figures Lloyd Richards and August Wilson.
Kim’s regional theater credits include performances at Indiana Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Lone Tree Arts Center, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Hartford Stage, Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, and the O'Neill Theatre Center. On Broadway, she appeared in The Piano Lesson and has been featured in numerous off-Broadway productions, including several with the Negro Ensemble Company.
Kim’s vocal talents extend to audiobook narration, with numerous titles available on Audible.com. Notable narrations include Beverly Jenkins’s Old West Series, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Jeanne Theoharis’s A More Beautiful, Terrible History, and Hana Ali’s memoir At Home With Muhammad Ali.
She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
