Emily Kinney
Emily Rebecca Kinney is an American actress, singer, and songwriter.[1] She is known for her role as Beth Greene on AMC's horror drama television series The Walking Dead (2011–2015, 2018). Kinney has also appeared on several other television series, including Showtime's critically acclaimed Masters of Sex and The CW's The Flash and Arrow.[2] In 2016, she co-starred in the ABC series Conviction, alongside Hayley Atwell.
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Kinney performing during the This is War Tour in 2015 | |
| Born | Emily Rebecca Kinney Wayne, Nebraska, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
| Television | The Walking Dead Conviction |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Pop |
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| Years active | 2011–present |
| Website | emilykinneymusic |
Early life
Kinney was born in Wayne, Nebraska, to Vaughn Charles and Jeanne Kinney.[3] She and her family frequently moved during her youth, including to Nevada, Oregon, and other parts of Nebraska.[4]: 3 Kinney attended New York University for a semester.[5] In 2006, she graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University[6] with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre.[3] Kinney then moved to New York, where she pursued a Broadway and acting career.
Career
Kinney worked in coffee shops, where she began to meet people from the acting and music industries.[4]: 7 She appeared in 20 plays during her four years of college[3] and began her professional acting career at age 21, when she was cast in the play Spring Awakening[4] as Anna, a young German schoolgirl. The following year, Kinney costarred as Jean Fordham in the play August: Osage County.[4]: 4 [7] She was then cast as Emily on Showtime's The Big C. Later, Kinney appeared on NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent, where she guest starred as Jeannie Richmonds. Kinney made her film debut with Aunt Tigress playing Gina. Kinney continued acting in a variety of recurring guest and cameo roles in various films and television shows.[6]
In 2011, Kinney was cast as the recurring character Beth Greene on The Walking Dead, an AMC television horror drama. Although she was actually 25 at the start of production, her character Beth was the 16-year-old sister of Maggie in Season 2.[4] After two years on the program, Kinney received a promotion to series regular.[8] Greene is one of a small group who must find a way to not only survive a zombie apocalypse, but who must also cope with other survivors who are even more dangerous than the undead.[9][10] She contributed to The Walking Dead: Original Soundtrack – Vol. 1, in which she collaborated with Lauren Cohan on the single, "The Parting Glass". Kinney finished her role on The Walking Dead as Beth in 2014,[11] but made one final appearance in 2015 in the ninth episode of the fifth season.[12]
Kinney reprised her role of Beth Greene in November 2018 through voiceover, which is heard in Andrew Lincoln's final episode asking his character Rick Grimes what is his wound.
Kinney returned to the Law & Order franchise in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in the role of Haley Cole.[6] She released her second EP Expired Love in 2013. It was re-released in 2014 with two additional tracks. In an interview with AMC, Kinney talks about the story of the album: "'Expired Love' is about my story. But I do think that with my acting career, my style seeps into my career a lot. My songs are similar to Tom Waits' in that they're little stories. Sometimes I write songs based on one word or feeling that keeps popping up for me. And I do feel like, because I've never played a character for so long, that it can't help but seep its way into things. It's like, maybe this is why a particular idea keeps coming up for me, because this is something that we keep dealing with on the show!"[13]
Kinney's new single, “Rockstar”, was released December 9, 2014.[14] After her departure from The Walking Dead, she made guest appearances on several television shows, including a starring role in the sixteenth episode of ABC's Forever titled "Memories of Murder"[15] and a co-starring spot in the eighteenth episode of The CW's The Flash titled "All-Star Team-Up".[16] She also landed recurring television roles on Cinemax's The Knick and Showtime's critically acclaimed Masters of Sex for four episodes.[17][18] Kinney starred in the music video for the Train song "Bulletproof Picasso".[4]: 10 [19] Kinney released her new studio album, This Is War, on October 2, 2015. As well as “This Is War”, the album featured another single, “Birthday Cake”.[20]
In 2016, Kinney played the main character in Hallmark Channel's Love On The Sidelines. On February 12, 2016, it was announced that Kinney would be joining the main cast of ABC's Conviction alongside Hayley Atwell.[21] On Conviction, Kinney played Tess Larson, "the paralegal for the Unit team who[, although] extremely bright, [was] a bit naive and occasionally, an underlying dark sadness emerge[d]." On March 30, 2016, Kinney made a guest appearance as Brie Larvan/Bug-Eyed Bandit on Arrow, a role she previously played on The Flash.[2] On October 28, 2016, her new single, "Back on Love", was released.[22]
On January 26, 2017, it was announced that Kinney would join the cast of ABC's Ten Days in the Valley alongside Kyra Sedgwick. Kinney, it was reported, would play Casey, "Jane's hip and upbeat young assistant who looks up to her boss as a role model".[23] In October 2017, Kinney's single, Mermaid Song, was released.[24] On August 24, 2018, Kinney released her solo album, Oh Jonathan, which included a single released earlier that month, “Boy Band Hero”.[25] Kinney announced a tour in support of the album, marking her second tour.[26]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2007 | Aunt Tigress | Gina | Short film |
| 2009 | It's Complicated | Waitress | |
| 2013 | Concussion | The Girl | |
| 2016 | Papa | Caroline | |
| 2021 | The Enormity of Life | Jess |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Hot for Teacher | Tamara Bailey | Short |
| The Gamekillers | The Swarm | Special | |
| 2008 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Jeannie Richmonds | Episode: "Contract" |
| 2009 | The Unusuals | Amanda Maint | Episode: "The Apology Line" |
| 2010 | The Good Wife | Milla Burchfield | Episode: "Bad Girls" |
| 2011 | The Big C | Emily | 3 episodes |
| 2011–2015; 2018 | The Walking Dead | Beth Greene | Main cast; 38 episodes |
| 2012 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Haley Cole | Episode: "Hunting Ground" |
| 2014 | The Following | Mallory Hodge | Episode: "Teacher's Pet" |
| 2015 | Forever | Jennifer Schroeder | Episode: "Memories of Murder" |
| Masters of Sex | Nora Everett | 4 episodes | |
| The Knick | Nurse Daisy Ryan | 3 episodes | |
| 2015; 2019 | The Flash | Brie Larvan / Bug-Eyed Bandit | 2 episodes |
| 2016 | Arrow | Episode: "Beacon of Hope" | |
| Love on the Sidelines | Laurel Welk | Television film (Hallmark) | |
| 2016–2017 | Conviction | Tess Larson | 13 episodes |
| 2017 | Ten Days in the Valley | Casey | 5 episodes |
| 2020 | Messiah | Staci Hardwick | 5 episodes[27] |
| 2022 | Santa Bootcamp | Emily Strauss | Television film (Lifetime) |
Stage
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Spring Awakening | Anna[28] | Replacement for Anna; understudy for Wendla |
| 2009 | August: Osage County | Jean Fordham[28] | National Tour of 2009 |
Discography
- Blue Toothbrush - EP (2011)[29]
- Expired Love (2013, 2014)[a][30]
- This Is War (2015)[31]
- Oh Jonathan (2018)[32]
- The Supporting Character (2021)[33]
- ^ Kinney re-released the studio album with additional tracks.
Tours
Accolades
| Year | Association | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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| 2015 | Saturn Awards | Best Supporting Actress | The Walking Dead | Nominated |
References
- ^ "Emily Kinney". TV Guide. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ a b "The Walking Dead's Emily Kinney Comes to Arrow in "Beacon of Hope" Synopsis". Comicbook.com. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Emily Kinney". Biography. TV Guide. CBS Interactive. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f Potts, Michael. . What Culture. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Emily Kinney Interview on 106.7 LiteFM". YouTube.
- ^ a b c Korbelik, Jeff (February 8, 2012). "NWU graduate enjoying TV, stage and music success". Lincoln Journal Star. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ . Playbill. January 1, 2014. Archived from the original on January 1, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Slezak, Michael (April 3, 2013). "The Walking Dead's Season 4 Cast– Tyreese, Sasha, Beth Upgraded To Series Regulars". TVLine. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ^ "Beth Greene". amc.com. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ "The Walking Dead". amc.com/. AMC. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ Leon, Melissa (December 1, 2014). "The Walking Dead's Emily Kinney on the Brutal Midseason-finale Coda". The Daily Beast. thedailybeast.com. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
- ^ Putnam, Lindsay (February 9, 2015). "Ghosts of 'Walking Dead' past return for midseason premiere". New York Post. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
- ^ Taylor, Andrew (March 9, 2013). "Q&A – Emily Kinney (Beth Greene)". AMC. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Ross, Dalton (December 9, 2014). "Watch 'Walking Dead' star Emily Kinney in her new 'Rockstar' music video". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Ashley, Kendall (January 15, 2015). "The Walking Dead's Emily Kinney Signs on For ABC's Forever". Cinema Blend. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Prudom, Laura (February 9, 2015). "'Walking Dead' Star Emily Kinney to Menace 'The Flash'". Variety. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Schaefer, Megan (April 21, 2015). "'Walking Dead' Alum Emily Kinney Talks Norman Reedus, 'The Knick' And More At 2015 Shorty Awards". International Business Times. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Haas, Rachel (July 7, 2015). "The Walking Dead's Emily Kinney Joins Masters of Sex". IGN. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Bulletproof Picasso (starring Emily Kinney & Reid Ewing). TrainVevo (Music Video). YouTube. January 23, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Ross, Dalton (September 25, 2015). "Emily Kinney exclusive: Stream her This is War album right here". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (February 12, 2016). "'The Walking Dead's' Emily Kinney Joins ABC Drama Pilot 'Conviction'". Variety. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
- ^ "'Walking Dead' Alum Emily Kinney Previews New Music". RollingStone.com. September 30, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
- ^ Nemetz, Dave. "Conviction's Emily Kinney Joins ABC Drama Ten Days in the Valley". Yahoo TV. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
- ^ Armstrong, Megan (October 26, 2017). "Former 'Walking Dead' Star Emily Kinney Debuts 'Mermaid Song'". Billboard. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ^ Staff, GGM (August 24, 2018). "Emily Kinney's new album 'Oh, Jonathan' out now". Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ^ a b Caputo, Denise (August 9, 2018). "Emily Kinney Announces North American Headlining 40-Date Tour". Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ^ "'Messiah': Netflix Adds Nearly A Dozen To Cast Of Suspense Thriller Series". Deadline. June 7, 2018. Retrieved June 7, 2018.
- ^ a b "Emily Kinney Theatre Credits". Broadway World. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ Blue Toothbrush - Emily Kinney | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved February 9, 2021
- ^ Ehrlich, Brenna (March 10, 2014). "'Walking Dead' Star Emily Kinney Resurrects 'Expired Love' On New Album". MTV News. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ^ "Emily Kinney exclusive: Stream her 'This is War' album right here". EW.com. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ "Emily Kinney announces new album, Oh, Jonathan, shares "Boy Band Hero": Stream". Consequence of Sound. June 28, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ "Exclusive: Hear Emily Kinney's new single, 'Fifteen Minutes'". EW.com. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ Scott, Jason (March 11, 2015). "Walking Dead's Emily Kinney Opens Fire On 2015 This Is War Tour". Popdust. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
External links
- Official website
- Emily Kinney at IMDb