Lies and Fairy Tales: Kelly Stables

January 13, 2009

Kelly Stables

Kelly Michelle Stables (born January 26, 1978 in metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actress known for both stage and film acting.

Personal life

Kelly has led a mostly quiet life and is a very private individual. She was a well-known cheerleader in her high school years, a fact which would be commemorated in an article in the magazine American Cheerleader. She graduated from Lafayette High School in Wildwood, Missouri.

She would later acquire a bachelor's degree in stage performance at the University of Missouri.^[1] By March 2005, in correspondence with the release of The Ring Two in theaters, she married Kurt Patino.^[2]

Kelly is an avid baseball fan, and enjoys St. Louis Cardinals games.^[3] She uses resources from her local area church in her spare time in educating children about Parkinson's disease and ways to combat it.^[4]

Career

Kelly has acted in a number of Broadway plays. Her two largest roles were in the Thousand Oaks Civic Light Opera's Peter Pan as Wendy, and in Sleeping Beauty as the title role.^[5] Kelly has also starred in several other on-stage roles in her time, notably as Marion Davies in W.R. and the Daisy.^[6]

Kelly is best known in the world of film for the stunt work she did for The Ring and for taking over for Daveigh Chase in portraying the (off-tape) evil Samara Morgan for The Ring Two. She was also in the short film Rings. Her roles in the Bring it On and Ring franchises would boost her popularity to the point of gaining mention in Rolling Stone, Star and Us Weekly. She also voices Will Vandom in W.I.T.C.H., and plays roles in General Hospital and St. Bartes-Aspen. She also briefly appeared in the pilot for The Grubbs. As of November 2007, she has also had a role in an episode of Cavemen. Most recently she made a guest appearance as Melissa on Two and a Half Men. She is currently working on a film called My Life Untitled.^[7].