Kay Lenz

Kay Lenz

Birth : 1953-03-04, Los Angeles, California, USA

History

Kay Ann Lenz (born March 4, 1953) is an American actress. A former child performer, Lenz has worked primarily in television and has won two Emmy Awards.

Profile

Kay Lenz

Movies

The Downside of Bliss
Mary
Many years after the death of his wife, a bereft Musician (Johnny Derek) returns home and finds his Daughter (Bliss) on his doorstep, desperate to provide care for her little girl. But when Bliss confronts him about his destructive ways, Johnny must learn the value of family before Bliss dies of cancer and loses her daughter to foster care.
More Beautiful for Having Been Broken
Cassandra
Three women’s lives intersect at a lakeside resort and are forever changed by the love of a special needs boy.
Ding Dong, You're Dead! The Making of
Retrospective documentary taking a look back at the making of House, the 1985 horror film that became a nice little hit when it was originally released. Featuring interviews with producer Sean S. Cunningham, director Steve Miner, story creator Fred Dekker, cast members William Katt, George Wendt and Kay Lenz, composer Harry Manfredini, stunt coordinator Kane Hodder and various members of the special effects crew.
The Secret Lives of Dorks
Mrs. Gibson
In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), who he is determined to win over. But she is wise to his desperate advances, so to get off his radar she creates a plan to push him into the arms of a dorkette at the school, Samantha (Vanessa Marano).
The Adventures of Ragtime
Detective Hill
Ragtime is a miniature pet horse and the kids love him. But villains Sam and Lester think Ragtime can be their meal ticket. They kidnap the horse for ransom. Ragtime out-smarts the bad guys who are then happy to be hauled off to prison.
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
Peep / Madge
In this homage to film noir, a wheelchair bound (Jim Metzler) paraplegic fantasizes about the new blonde (Andrea Thompson), who moves into the house across from him..
Gunfighter's Moon
Linda Yarnell
Henrickson plays Frank Morgan, a notorious and feared gunfighter that has lived his life on the run. His face and eyes reveal a man that has been very much hardened by that life. We quickly learn, however, that there is still passion inside. Upon receiving a telegram from Linda, an old lover (played by Kay Lenz), requesting his presence, he abandons his woman, mounts his horse and rides to Linda without giving it a second thought. Upon arrival, he learns that Linda is now happily married to the owner of the local general store. The only vestige of her past that remains is a daughter, who Frank is surprised to learn is his. Written by Dave Gan
Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space
Sebastian
William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", re-imagined in a child's vision of Hell. "Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space" is a festive yarn, comprised of the most homely and vulgar materials, while shamelessly thwarted buy the Bard's coarsest of jokes and grossest buffoonery.
Shame II: The Secret
Ginny
A motorcycle riding lawyer fights to save the life of a mentally retarded man on death row. His own mother is ready to let him go.
Trapped in Space
Gillings
After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Falling from Grace
P.J. Parks
Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins).
Hitler's Daughter
Leona Crawford Gordon
Hitler's Daughter wants to occupy the White House. She might just do it, unless the ineffectual Nazi hunters and their latest recruit can figure out who the heck she is.
Streets
Sargent
Tough drama looks at the plight of a young L.A. prostitute, who shoots heroin to get through the day, sells sex just to survive, and eats roadkill sometimes when there isn't anything else available. Into this futile existence is thrown a psycho killer, who gets off on raping and slaughtering the girls he catches on the streets. Sy is a straight kid from Sanata Barbara, who gets drawn into this scuzzy underworld and tries to rescue the young prostitute from the killer and her existence.
Murder by Night
Karen Hicks
A man inadvertently gets caught near a car explosion, and after he recovers from his injuries realizes that he has amnesia. Soon evidence begins to mount that he could be "The Claw Hammer Killer, " a serial murderer who targets for death the former patrons of a particular restaurant called Puzzles.
Physical Evidence
Deborah Quinn
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
Fear
Sharon Haden
A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is that the family's father is also a Vietnam veteran, and he has no intention of letting his family come to any harm.
Headhunter
Katherine Hall
A Miami cop finds out his wife has a female lover, and he begins to have an affair with his female partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa arrives among Miami's Nigerian community and begins decapitating some people and possessing others--including the cop's wife.
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown
Karen Sheldon
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.
Stripped to Kill
Detective Cody Sheenan
A Los Angeles policewoman's partner has her pose as a stripper to lure a killer of strippers.
House
Sandy Sinclair
Roger Cobb is an author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become more frequent, Cobb becomes aware that the house resents his presence.
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
Carrie Madison
Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
Trial by Terror
Karen Armstrong
A couple moves into a new home and find success and happiness, but soon their dream becomes a nightmare when they hear chilling voices in the night, vandalous attacks and a faceless, nameless menace threatens to destroy them. The law won't help, and when an intruder is shot and killed, their ordeal has just begun.
Fast-Walking
Moke
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
The Hustler of Muscle Beach
Jenny O'Rourke
A slick promoter in the bodybuilding subculture of Venice Beach, California, finds what he considers a diamond in the rough: a dedicated but somewhat mentally challenged young man who wants to win bodybuilding championships, but needs some help and direction--and the promoter thinks he's just the one to do it.
Escape
Barbara Chilcoate
The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of his wife, Barbara, he escaped the prison by disguising himself as a woman. He was the first prisoner to escape Lecumberri since Pancho Villa.
Sanctuary of Fear
Carol Bain
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
The Passage
Leah Bergson
During WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a scientist and his family across the Pyrenees. While being pursued by a sadistic German.
Mean Dog Blues
Linda Ramsey
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
The Initiation of Sarah
Sarah Goodwin
A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
Moving Violation
Cam Johnson
A young drifter and small-town waitress witness a corrupt sheriff murder his own deputy. Framed for the murder and pursued by the sheriff, they run for their life to try and stay alive.
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
Thursday
Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.
Upcoming Season
Susan
Super mid-season replacements to failed shows in a network's super season. Saturday Night Live, Season 1 Episode 4
White Line Fever
Jerri Kane Hummer
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
Journey from Darkness
Sherry Williams
A brilliant blind student fights a seemingly hopeless battle to gain acceptance into medical school.
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
Shirley
J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.
The Underground Man
Sue Crandell
A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
Unwed Father
Vicky Simmons
A teenage boy fathers a child with his girlfriend. He then fights his parents, the girlfriend, the girl's parents and the courts in an attempt to get custody of the child.
A Summer Without Boys
Ruth Hailey
A middle-aged woman going through a divorce takes her daughter to a summer lodge where the girl experiences a powerful awakening to life's challenges.
Lisa, Bright and Dark
Lisa Schilling
Three teenage girls try to help their girlfriend, who is having a nervous breakdown that conventional therapy seems to be failing to remedy.
Breezy
Breezy
A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and over time a bond forms between them.
American Graffiti
Jane
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
The Weekend Nun
Audree Prewitt
Drama based on the life of Joyce Duco, with Joanna Pettet as a young nun torn between the reality of her secular job as a daytime juvenile probation officer and the vows she has taken with the church.
Sallywood
Kathryn Corrigan
When Zack, a 20-something writer, moves from Maine to Hollywood to pursue his career dreams, he meets his favorite actress, Sally Kirkland, who hires him on the spot to be her personal assistant, and so much more.