Kerri Green(I)
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Auburn haired Kerri Green was born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA on 14
January 1967. In 1984, Kerri decided to skip summer camp and attend
some movie auditions in New York City instead. This led her to the
attention of none other than
Steven Spielberg, who cast her as Andy
in Richard Donner's adventure movie
The Goonies (1985), which was one of
the biggest hits of 1985. Also that year, she played one of John
Candy's three children in the movie
Summer Rental (1985). However, she
gave her most accomplished performance in David Seltzer's
Lucas (1986) - Corey Haim was the title
character, a bespectacled, intelligent and unpopular 14-year-old
misfit, who befriends 16-year-old Maggie, played brilliantly by Kerri,
who Lucas soon falls in love with. However, Maggie has fallen for
handsome football hero Cappie (Charlie Sheen), which breaks Lucas'
heart. A heartwarming, realistic and enjoyable teen movie, Lucas also
featured Ally McBeal star Courtney Thorne-Smith and, making her film
debut, Winona Ryder. Kerri was reunited with Charlie Sheen for 1987's
road movie Three for the Road (1987), in which she played Robin, the
rebellious daughter of a ruthless senator. Following the release of
that movie, Kerri decided to quit acting and studied art at Vassar
College. Audiences didn't see her again until the TV movie
Blue Flame (1993). She received critical
acclaim for her direction of the film Bellyfruit (1999).
Her marriage in the 90s has led to her now being credited as
"Kerri Lee Green" and she now only pops up now and then on television -
most notably in an episode of "ER" as a mother of several children, who
tearfully wants to terminate her latest pregnancy.