Kerri Green

Early life

Green grew up in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey and graduated from Pascack Hills High School in Montvale. She attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She worked at a Roy Rogers restaurant near Woodcliff Lake, made commercials for Jordache jeans and Bold 3 detergent, and auditioned in New York City for acting jobs.

Career

Green is best known for her roles as a young teen in a string of teen movies in the 1980s. Her big break came in the 1985 film The Goonies playing cheerleader-turned-adventurer Andrea "Andy" Carmichael. Two months later, she appeared in Summer Rental where she portrayed Jennifer Chester. She gained further critical acclaim for her performance in Lucas (1986) starring as the center of a love triangle between the characters of Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen. However, her next film Three for the Road (1987), which featured Sheen and Alan Ruck, did not fare as well. She appeared in a 1990 episode of In the Heat of the Night, performed in an independent film called Blue Flame, and played the role of secretary to Paul Reiser's character in two episodes of the television sitcom Mad About You.

Green eventually co-founded a film production company, Independent Women Artists with Bonnie Dickenson. With Dickenson, she co-wrote and directed the film adaptation of a play about teen pregnancy called Bellyfruit (1999).

Personal life

Green took a break from acting to study art at Vassar College, where she was roommates with Marisa Tomei's brother Adam and with video game BioShock developer Ken Levine.

Filmography

References

References

1. (March 30, 1986). "For a first-time star, life is sunny side up". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
2. (March 18, 1986). "The subtle shade of Kerri Green". The Record.
3. (December 6, 2012). "Why ''BioShock Infinite''{{'}}s Creator Won't Settle for Success". Condé Nast.