Kerry Noonan

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Kerry Noonan
Born (1960-01-25) January 25, 1960 (age 64)
Alma materUCLA
SpouseStephen Wehmeyer

Kerry Noonan (born January 25, 1960) is a professor at Champlain College and a former actress. She was born in New York but spent most of her life in Los Angeles, from where she moved to Vermont in 2008.

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Acting career

She is best known for appearing in the role of Paula in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives . Her only starring role was in The Twilight Zone episode "A Message from Charity". She was initially passed up for the role, but got a call after the original lead actress turned out to be completely unsuited for the part. [1] She also appeared in episodes of Taxi , The Facts of Life , Family Ties , Mr. Belvedere , St. Elsewhere , and Murder, She Wrote , and had recurring roles on China Beach and Knots Landing . She was a founding member of the City Stage theater company in Los Angeles, and performed in various Equity theater productions in California and Arizona from 1982 - 1995. She has performed with the L.A. Shakespeare Festival, the Grove Shakespeare Festival, Will & Co., the L.A. Theater Center, the Arizona Theater Company, and South Coast Repertory Theater. [2]

Educational career

Noonan received a bachelor's degree in Theater Arts from UCLA, sharing an acting award with Tim Robbins, and returned there after her acting career to pursue MA and Ph.D. degrees in Folklore and Mythology. Her scholarship focuses on women and religion, as well as new religious movements, and her doctoral dissertation (2002) was titled "Tongues of Fire: Catholic Charismatic Women Negotiating Gender and Power". [3] She also taught at UCLA while a graduate student and served as a lecturer there from 2003 - 2008. From 2000 - 2008, she taught in the Anthropology Department and the Liberal Studies Department at California State University at Northridge.

She specializes in Celtic folklore and folk belief and Afro-Caribbean religions. She has published articles on the Haitian Vodou spirit Gran Brijit. [4] After visiting China in 2009, she devoted several years to research on the impact of tourism on China's 55 ethnic minority communities, and on Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices.

She is a member of the American Folklore Society, the American Academy of Religion, and Folklorists in New England. She received the Elli Kongas-Maranda award for scholarship on women's folk culture. [5]

Noonan has also played guitar and sung with an Irish folk band, The Descendants, later known as The McGuffins. [6]

Private life

She is married to Stephen Wehmeyer, formerly of the American band Gaelic Storm.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Film

Television

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References

  1. ↑ Brennert, Alan; Noonan, Kerry (2020). The Twilight Zone: The Complete '80s Series: Audio Commentary - "A Message from Charity" (DVD). CBS DVD.
  2. ↑ "VYT Staff". Vermont Youth Theater. 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
  3. ↑ Noonan, Kerry Ellen (1 January 2002). "Tongues of fire: Catholic charismatic women negotiating gender and power" – via ProQuest.
  4. ↑ title= Kerry Noonan
  5. ↑ title= Kerry Noonan
  6. ↑ "Where Are They Now?: Kerry Noonan". Archived from the original on 2008-08-30. Retrieved 2008-08-05.
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