Kerri Randles

Birth : 1971-06-15, Decatur, Illinois, USA

History

For several years, Kerri Randles has been acting, writing and developing projects for Film, Stage and Television. Kerri started her career as an actress in Chicago, Illinois. Her first break into films came working with directors Oliver Stone (Heaven and Earth) and William Friedkin (Jailbreakers), respectively. Subsequent roles after that included Marilyn Monroe, in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for HBO, directed by Martha Coolidge, Poor White Trash, and Scenes of the Crime. She most recently worked with Angelina Jolie on Clint Eastwood's, Changeling. In June 2010, Kerri brought her one-woman show Can't You Hear Me Knockin? to the stage, opening the first ever Hollywood Fringe Festival to rave reviews. The show went on to New York for a successful limited engagement, and will play the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2011. A memoir, Can't You Hear Me Knockin?, will follow in 2012. In 2005 Kerri founded her own production company, Littlecommando Productions. In 2007 she helped to bring Alison Eastwood's directorial debut film, Rails & Ties to the big screen, shepherding a successful tour of the festival circuit. Kerri was also instrumentally involved in the Exit Through the Gift Shop debut at Sundance and the subsequent L.A. premiere and 2011 Oscar campaign for the film. Kerri currently resides in Los Angeles. She is an avid art collector and is known to produce shows for artists. She collaborated on Banksy's Los Angeles show, Barely Legal, in 2006, and also produced The Sex Lives of Mannequins in Chicago and Los Angeles for producer Charles Evans Jr. (Aviator).

Movies

Changeling
Operator
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Rails & Ties
Rosanna
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Scenes of the Crime
Donna
A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
Billionaire's Babe #2
A group of kids on a field trip in western rural America accidentally discover the bodies of two murdered children. Who they are is a mystery. Corrupt reporter Cindie arrives in town and bribes bar owner Julie into spilling her life story. As the night unfolds, Julie reveals her history of deception, adultery and events kept secret that may hold the key to the fate of the murdered children.
Poor White Trash
Suzy
Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they resort to burglary as a means of financing Mike's college education. Their dream is jeopardized one summer day when their ploy to shoplift Near Beer begins a crime spree and a series of mishaps during which they are threatened with jail.
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Marilyn Monroe
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of "Carmen Jones", becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Marriages and affairs would break her heart, but her heart was strong. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star - with all the glory and all the pain of being loved, abused, cheated, glorified, undermined and undefeated. Here was a woman who wouldn't wait in the wings. Halle Berry stars as Dorothy Dandrige.
Jailbreakers
Missy
A 1950s high school cheerleader meets a leather clad rebel biker and goes out on the town with him. When he steals an item of jewellery he gets thrown in prison but not for long. He makes a desperate escape and he is determined to catch up with his lost love and re-new their criminal activities.