Kimberly Atkinson

Kimberly Shannon Atkinson was raised in the small college town of Clemson, SC. She walked the line of basketball playing tomboy, beauty pageant queen, and poet, yet never had the acting bug until she was well into her college years. She enrolled in a small liberal arts school in Charleston, SC as an English major and it was there that she started acting. Almost immediately she was landing commercials and began auditioning for major films that rolled through town. After finishing two BAs, in journalism and in theater, she was accepted into the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program-ranked top 5 in the country along side Yale, NYU, and Juilliard. While completing her MFA, she continued to work as an actress in independent film, television, and commercials, and spent her summers performing outdoor Shakespeare in Seattle, WA.