Kelly Lynch was born in 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She started her
acting career with a small job at the Guthrie Theater. She studied
under acting teacher Sanford Meisner and became a model for the famous Elite
Modeling Agency. She first gained acclaim for acting in the Gus Van Sant
film Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Lynch earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for
her role in Aussichtslos (1994). She stars in the 20th-Century Fox
film Grasalarm - Homegrown (1998), co-starring Hank Azaria and Billy Bob Thornton.
