Description:
Kelly Lynch was born in 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She started her acting career with a small job at the Guthrie Theater. She studied under acting teacher Sanford Meisner and became a model for the famous Elite Modeling Agency. She first gained acclaim for acting in the Gus Van Sant film Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Lynch earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her role in The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994). She stars in the 20th-Century Fox film Homegrown (1998), co-starring Hank Azaria and Billy Bob Thornton.
Birthday
January 31, 1959
Born In
Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA
Height
175 cm
Parents
Robert Edward Lynch
Relatives
Robin Lynch (Sibling)
Trivia
Turned down the Sharon Stone role in Basic Instinct (1992).
Quotes
[2012, on Cocktail (1988)] My audition for that was wearing the many and various bikinis, which... I'd say they're really just strings tied different ways. No, that was actually a really complicated story about the '80s and power and money, and it was really re-edited where they completely lost my character's backstory - her low self-esteem, who her father was, why she was this person that she was - but it was obviously a really successful movie, if not as good as it could've been. It was written by the guy who wrote Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) [Heywood Gould], and it was a much darker movie, but Disney took it, re-shot about a third of it, and turned it into flipping the bottles and this and that. But it was my first really big movie, and I'm making out with Tom Cruise, who is a really good kisser. And we're in Jamaica! Again, it was one of those things where I had to pinch myself. I couldn't believe it. It was a great opportunity to me. And as embarrassed as I was with all those little bikinis, now I'm so glad. I'm all like, "Yep, that's me. That's me walking down those stairs with that butt hanging out right in Tom's face. That is me". But we had a really great time. And Tom was so much fun, just a ball to work with, both on and off camera. We'd go to bars in Jamaica, listen to music and hang out. Everybody was great. Bryan Brown was there, with his beautiful wife, Rachel Ward. It was a lot of fun with a great group of people, and it was a really successful movie.
