Kerri Green

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Kerri Green
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Green in September 2017
Born
United States
OccupationActress
Years active1985–1994, 1999–2001, 2012

Kerri Green is an American actress, best known for her roles in The Goonies (1985), Summer Rental (1985), and Lucas (1986). She also co-wrote and directed the film Bellyfruit (1999).

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Early life

Green grew up in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, and graduated from Pascack Hills High School [1] [2] and Vassar College. She worked at a Roy Rogers restaurant and made commercials for Jordache jeans and Bold 3 detergent. [1]

Career

Green is best known for her roles as a young teen in a string of teen flicks in the 1980s, including Summer Rental (1985), in which she starred as the daughter of a stressed-out air traffic controller (John Candy). Her big break came in the 1985 film The Goonies , in which she played cheerleader-turned-adventurer Andrea "Andy" Carmichael.

She gained further critical acclaim for her performance in Lucas (1986), in which she starred 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 Charlie Sheen and Alan Ruck, did not fare as well.

Green later 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 of 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 BioShock developer Ken Levine. [3]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1985 The Goonies Andy Carmichael
1985 Summer Rental Jennifer Chester
1986 Lucas Maggie
1987 Three for the Road Robin Kitteredge
1992 The Burden of Proof Kate GranumTV movie
1993 Blue Flame Rain
1993Tainted BloodTori PattersenTV movie
1999 Bellyfruit Co-writer and director
2012ComplacentBeth Wilkensen
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1987 The Disney Sunday Movie CalperniaEpisode: "Young Harry Houdini"
1989 ABC Afterschool Special Madeline GreenEpisode: "Private Affairs"
1990 In the Heat of the Night Karen SevranceEpisode: "Triangle"
1992 Mad About You Stacey2 episodes
1994 Café Americain KellyEpisode: "All About Kelly"
1994 Murder, She Wrote SaraEpisode: "Murder of the Month Club"
2000 ER Lynn ParkerEpisode: "Match Made in Heaven"
2001 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit MichelleEpisode: "Stolen"

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