Biografia
Born under a Gemini sun and Aries moon, Kristina Klebe is a fiery creative polymath with a love for storytelling both in front of and behind the camera. Kristina graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, with a major in government and minor in film. She continued her theater studies at the Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute in Waterford, CT and then pursued her graduate studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts to get her masters in directing. First generation American, born in NYC, she spent her formative years traversing the Atlantic between the U.S., Germany, France and Italy, soaking up languages (she speaks four) and culture like a sponge with a passport.
Kristina's love for acting was ignited as a teenager in the 90s era blackbox theaters of downtown Manhattan, pre-Giuliani, when the city was still cool... legend even has it, 'twas there her acting career began - performing on the boards of such renowned stages as the Soho Rep, The Jean Cocteau Repertory, the Irish Arts Center and even the Public Theater with Colman Domingo. She portrayed classic roles such as Juliet in "Romeo & Juliet" and Beatrice in "The Servant of Two Masters." It was, however, Klebe's turn as the sassy, foul-mouthed Lynda in Rob Zombie's "Halloween" (2007) that cemented her as an icon in the horror genre and from there, she dove into playing complex characters in bold indie movies like "Proxy" (TIFF '13), "Dementia" (NYT Critic's Pick 2015) and most recently "Brooklyn 45" (SXSW '23). Additional roles include Chillerama (2011), Tales of Halloween (2015), Don't Kill It (2016), and Neil Marshall's 2019 remake of Hellboy, as well as acclaimed television appearances in CBS' Criminal Minds, NCIS and S.W.A.T., The Following (FOX), and Law & Order (NBC). Her voice and motion capture work have also been featured in numerous best-selling video games, including Friday the 13th: The Game (2017), Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2017), Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020), Rainbow Six: Siege and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction (2022) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (2023).
Adjacent to her acting career, Kristina has continued to write, direct and produce numerous short films as well as shooting, amongst other things, over a dozen open heart surgeries for Doctors Without Borders, Surgeons of Hope and Open Hearts Haiti. Her short films have played in competition at prestigious festivals such as Sitges and the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland International Film Festival, garnering her a spot as an up-and-coming director to watch by The Black List. Kristina is currently in post production on her first feature film, Noxturne, which she wrote, directed, produced and starred in.
On the side, she has been working with a charity called French-American Aid for Children for over 10 years while also acting as a volunteer and foster parent at Best Friends Animal Society and Much Love Animal Rescue. She was a competitive equestrian for over a decade, including doing three day eventing, and is a certified rescue diver. She splits her time between New York, Los Angeles and Berlin.
