Kelly Pantaleoni

Birthplace

New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Moving to Hollywood from rural New South Wales Australia, Kelly made the transition to fulfill her lifelong passion for acting and filmmaking. She started gaining experience in the industry through high profile music video and commercial projects working with artists such as Avril Lavigne, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa. Along with becoming a spokesmodel for GUESS and a Bebe ‘It Girl’ finalist, She competed in the 2011 Miss California USA Pageant, and won of the ‘Best swimsuit body’ in the Miss Hollywood pageant the following year. Her feature film debut was in the first “Avengers” film franchise, and she has appeared in tv shows on FX, Lifetime and Disney. Since then, she has produced four short films including a documentary, VR film, a drama and a corona comedy “50 shades of Quarantine” that premiered as a finalist in the Portland Comedy Film Festival. A Canadian movie on mental health that Kelly co-wrote, produced and starred in called “40 seconds” is now doing the international festival circuit and a finalist in two festivals. She is now set to write the first novel in a travel trilogy and produce a documentary she recently filmed while volunteering with her NGO Give Backpackers in Uganda. Stay tuned for this rising Australian star to take over the big screen and world soon.