Biography
Kinsey, born and raised in Santa Barbara, California, made her stage debut at a young age. She was actively involved in theater throughout junior high and high school and graduated with Honors from UCSB, earning a Bachelor's degree in Dramatic Arts with a focus on Acting, Writing, and Directing, alongside a minor in Psychology.
She earned the Corwin Award for her original script, Sexless, and was invited to write for the prestigious Santa Barbara production company, Dramatic Women. The following year, her play Screaming in the Dark premiered at Center Stage Theatre in Santa Barbara. Both plays have recently been submitted for publication.
Kinsey later joined the theatrical group Genesis West with Maurice Lord. Her roles included Shelley in Sam Shepard's Buried Child, Loretta in Featuring Loretta, Gail in George F. Walker's Escape From Happiness, and Mae in Maria Irene Fornes' Mud.
She produced and starred in Wendy MacLeod's The House of Yes at Edgemar Center for the Arts in Los Angeles, receiving critical acclaim in the Los Angeles press. Kinsey was cast in a Fox Television pilot, Employed, produced by Naked Angeles and Fox TV, playing Dana; the show was subsequently picked up by the network.
Her television credits include Critter Gitters, Scrubs, Fastlane, Hidden Hills, The Mullets, Sleeper Cell, and The Ex List.
Film credits feature Nuclear Family, a post-apocalyptic film starring Ray Wise and Corin Nemec; Expecting Mary, premiering this month in Palm Springs and starring Elliot Gould, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan, Cloris Leachman, Della Reese, Oleysa Rulin, Cybill Shepherd, and Gene Simmons; Mr. Nice, starring Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny, David Thewlis, and Crispin Glover, which premiered at SXSW and Edinburgh to rave reviews and is scheduled for worldwide release later this year; Infestation, Icon's latest film with Chris Marquette, Ray Wise, and Brooke Nevin, set for theatrical release in 2011 and later aired on the SyFy Channel; the psychological thriller Circle (directed by Michael Watkins), in which she stars as a young FBI ingénue alongside Peter Onorati, Gail Grady, and Michael DeLuise; and The Kreutzer Sonata (directed by Bernard Rose), starring Danny Huston, Elizabeth Rohm, and Angelica Huston, which received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival.
Kinsey portrayed Maggie in the award-winning short Crazy Love, which won Best of Fest at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and earned her a Best Actress nomination at the Instant Films Festival. She appeared in The Shuttle Run, which premiered at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival, and provided her voice for The Meaning of Life, a Don Hertzfeldt animated film that premiered at Sundance. She co-starred with Clancy Brown and Kim Coates in the independent short Homeowner and was cast in Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex and More Sex, a George Furth and Actors Studio production that ran at the Matrix Theatre in Hollywood.
Her modeling work includes campaigns for Fredericks of Hollywood, Shiseido, Match.com, Connected Magazine, Getty Images, West Bay, and Super Soft Lingerie. Commercials include spots for Mars Bars, the Farrah Fawcett Promo for Finding Farrah, the Entourage Promo, various condo lines including Japan's Sparkle Club Vacations, Smoke Films, and the Shiseido makeup line.
Kinsey is an experienced horseback rider, photographer, Pilates enthusiast, ballet and salsa dancer, theater aficionado, animal lover, and avid camper. She is classically trained in Shakespeare and Meisner techniques and studies in Los Angeles with Larry Moss, Patsy Rodenburg, and Nancy Banks.
