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Kelli Brianne Garner (born April 11, 1984) is an American actress. Her credits include Man of the House, The Aviator, Bully and Thumbsucker. She also co-starred in the Green Day video "Jesus of Suburbia". In December 2005, Garner starred in the Off-Broadway production of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at the Century Center for the Performing Arts. A petite and bright-eyed actress, California native Kelli Garner stumbled into acting in her teen years, making fast inroads into the worlds of film, television and music videos. Creating a name for herself through bad girl roles in early works like the indie drama “Bully“ (2001) and TV’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (1997-2003), Garner branched out into music video appearances for the likes of rappers N.E.R.D. and punk chartbusters Green Day. With a longtime collaborator in director Mike Mills and a fan in director, Martin Scorsese, Garner charmed a wider audience in career-boosting work such as Mills’ contemplative “Thumbsucker” (2005) and Scorsese’s golden age of Hollywood tale, “The Aviator” (2004). Garner, who was born in Bakersfield, California, enjoys playing guitar and shopping. She currently resides in Calabasas, California. Kelli Garner was born in Bakersfield, grew up in Thousand Oaks, and currently resides in Calabasas, California. She began her career when she was discovered at a friends Bar Mitzvah, and made her film debut at age 16 in director Mike Mills's short Architecture of Reassurance (1999), a Sundance Film Festival entry. Her performance captured the attention of director Larry Clark (Kids (1995)), who cast her in her first feature film, in the role of the drug-addicted teen, Heather Swallers, in the controversial docudrama Bully (2001), establishing Kelli as a fiery young talent. Garner‘s first film job was in a short by artist-video director Mike Mills “Architecture of Reassurance” (2000), a suburban “Alice in Wonderland” story. The short debuted at the Sundance festival at the start of 2000 and was seen by photographer-turned-film director Larry Clark, who had an eye for spotting interesting looking youths. He was intrigued by Garner’s imperfect smile and picked her to act in a film project of his own. Garner’s work with Mills also came in handy when he cast her to appear in his 2000 music video for “Everything but the Girl” – a track from Temperamental. That year, she was tapped for Gregg Araki’s pilot “This is How the World Ends” a youth-oriented “Twin Peaks”-ish series for MTV, for which she played the character of Christmas, but the ambitious project was deemed to costly for the network to produce. Following her attempts at series work, Garner went on land her first major bit of exposure on the tent-pole horror series, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” playing the gossipy rumor-monger Kirstie in the big 2001 episode “The Body.” Later that year, her project with Larry Clark, the teen drama “Bully” (2001) hit theaters. In the film, Garner played Heather, one of several fed up teens that conspire to kill a teen tormentor in a story loosely based on the real events of a group of Florida teenagers. No stranger to controversy, Clark’s films could always be counted on to generate a wide array of publicity, and Garner was steadily able to find work onscreen, appearing in a pair of episodes of “Grounded for Life” (Fox, 2001-05) in 2001. At the start of 2002, she took up as a teen girl huffing gasoline fumes in the Philip Seymour Hoffman vehicle “Love Liza” (2002) and soon after could be seen in another music video – this time, acting in the clip for rap supergroup N.E.R.D.’s single, “Provider.” After sharpening her teeth on television and independent films, the edgy young actress earned a part as the 1940's Hollywood ingénue (opposite Leonardo DiCaprio) in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004) making her Moviefone's Rising Star. Soon after, she reunited with Mike Mills in his 2005 Sundance Film Festival hit Thumbsucker (2005), and proved her ability to shine in comedy, and handle her first leading role, starring opposite Tommy Lee Jones in Man of the House (2005). By the time Mike Mills was ready to make his feature debut in 2003, having worked with Garner before, she was a clear choice to co-star in “Thumbsucker,” which hit the festivals early in 2005 and saw its release spread out throughout the year. Once again, as Rebecca, the classmate of a thumbsucking addict, she was ably cast as a beguiling object of affection. Meanwhile, over in the multiplexes, Garner’s role as a cheerleader in the long-shelved Sony Pictures action comedy “Man of the House” (2005) fared less impressively, seeing its tiny release at the start of the year. Still, Garner maintained a strong presence in the world of independent moviemaking, finding solace in the quasi-reality of “London” (2005), in which she and a mix of on-edge partygoers ended up getting philosophical over a cocaine binge. Late in 2005, she appeared in Green Day’s video for its popular track, “Jesus of Suburbia” and, for a change of pace, decided to try some stage work as well. She went to New York and co-starred in the Off-Broadway play, “Dog Sees God.” She was slated to appear on Broadway in a production of Eric Bogosian’s “SubUrbia” in the fall of 2006, but instead opted to head to the Toronto-based film shoot of “Lars and the Real Girl” (2007), a unique story about a young man and his romance with a blow-up doll. Garner also continued to expand upon her fascination with characters in “Normal Adolescent Behavior” (2007), a high school feature drama about a small circle of friends’ tumultuous mixing of sex and friendship. Kelli just recently received rave reviews in New York for her Off-Broadway performance in "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead". In her spare time, she enjoys playing the guitar and writing songs. With her multi-talents, winning smile, and on screen charm, Kelli is most definitely a breakout star waiting to happen. |
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