New Orleans native, Kelly Lind, is not your average Southern belle. She has worked in the entertainment industry for over 20 years both behind and in front of the camera, starting her career as an intern at WWL-TV and on the film Dead Man Walking.  After graduating with a BA in Communications from UC San Diego (with minors in Theatre and Film), she worked and traveled around the world, hitting every continent by the age of 29.  Her various jobs included teaching English in Japan, coordinating press conferences for the Field Hockey venue at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, and working as a carpenter helper in Antarctica.  Along the way, she continued to work in entertainment with jobs such as Tennis Media Liaison for NBC at Wimbledon and Roland Garros, as well as Research Assistant for TNT at Wimbledon and for USA Networks at the US Open.  She has worked in various capacities on feature films and TV shows, such as Sean Penn’s Assistant on All the King’s Men, Producer’s Assistant on The Reaping and Deja Vu, COVID Compliance Officer on Oracle and The Park, Craft Service for the American Music Awards, and in the Construction Department on Queen Sugar, We Have a Ghost, Renfield, and The Winchesters.  

As an actress, Kelly has appeared in numerous commercials, films and TV shows, including Bad Moms, The Iceman, Claws, NCIS: New Orleans, and the Academy Award-winning film, The Big Short.  She co-produced and starred in the award-winning short film Garden District (won Best Short at the London International Film Festival, among others), and has been fulfilling her love of comedy by performing with her improv troupe, The Whale Spooners, in sketch comedy shows at Big Couch Theatre, and in the Crow’s Nest Productions’ parody of Friday the 13th called Love Songs with Jason.

Throughout her travels, Kelly’s love of adventure has led her to the far corners of the earth. Some of her exhilarating experiences include: standing in the middle of 30 crocodiles in Zambia; doing the Polar Plunge in Antarctica; eating crickets in China; whitewater rafting on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon and the Zambezi River in Africa; skydiving and bungee jumping (forward and backward!) in New Zealand; hiking the Annapurna Circuit and kayaking in Nepal; taking a dolphin training course and volunteering at an iguana research & breeding center in Honduras; climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge; riding camels in Australia and Egypt; performing with the Motoyoshi Taiko troupe in Japan; skiing in the French Alps and at the base of the Matterhorn in Switzerland; and SCUBA diving in the Philippines, Thailand, Bali, Fiji, Tonga, the Galapagos Islands, and the Great Barrier Reef…and much, much more.