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Kim Staunton is an award winning actress of stage, film, television and audio books with a wealth of artistic experiences. She reigns from Washington, DC, and is a distinguished graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts where the late greats, Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Mike Malone, Israel Hicks, Glenda Dickerson and many others lay the groundwork for her development in the arts. After Ellington, her natural talents were honed for four years at the Juilliard School. Kim began working immediately upon graduation from Juilliard. Her career has spanned 35+years and she's worked with many industry notables including Samuel L. Jackson in Changing Lanes, Eddie Murphy in Holy Man, Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan in First Sunday and Delroy Lindo in TNT's Original Movie, Glory & Honor. She had supporting and featured roles in Heat, Dragonfly, Bark!, Amos & Andrew, Deceived and A Shock To The System. No stranger to television, Kim's network appearances have included 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, and former soap operas, One Life to Live and As the World Turns. Kim has been fortunate to do some of the greatest roles written for the stage as a guest company member at the Denver Center Theater Company for 14 seasons. At DCTC, she played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Mama Nadi in Ruined, Rose in Fences and Black Mary in Gem of the Ocean to name a few. She represented DCTC as an inaugural Lunt-Fontanne Fellow at Ten Chimneys Foundation led by master teacher, the late, great Lynn Redgrave. She has also worked with the late, great theater giants, Lloyd Richards and August Wilson. Kim has worked at some of the country's leading regional theaters including Indiana Rep, South Coast Rep, Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Rep, CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre, Ebony Rep, Portland Stage Company, Lone Tree Arts Center, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Virginia Stage Company, Hartford Stage, Folger Theater, Arena Stage and the O'Neill Theatre Center. She has appeared on Broadway in The Piano Lesson and countless shows off Broadway including several at the Negro Ensemble Company. Her use of language has crossed over to audiobooks where she has narrated many books all at audible.com including Beverly Jenkins Old West Series, Octavia Butler's Kindred, A More Beautiful, Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis, and the Hana Ali memoir, At Home With Muhammad Ali to name a few. Kim resides in Los Angeles, California.
