EXCLUSIVE: Strand Entertainment has signed actress Kristen Connolly for management.
Most recently, Connolly has appeared as a series regular in the third and final season of the hit Amazon series The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Perhaps best known for the role of political staffer Christina Gallagher on Netflix’s House of Cards, the actress has also starred in CBS’s Zoo, the History miniseries Houdini opposite Adrien Brody, the ABC series The Whispers, and the 2014 NBC pilot Tin Man.
Connolly has recurred on CBS’s FBI: International, as well as Prime Video’s Outer Range. She’s additionally made guest star appearances on Accused, Prodigal Son, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, New Amsterdam, Mercy, Nurse Jackie, and Life on Mars.
In film, Connolly’s credits include Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t!, and the HBO TV movie The Wizard of Lies, where she appeared alongside Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, playing Bernie Madoff’s daughter-in-law, Stephanie Madoff. Other past projects include A Good Marriage, The Bay, The Cabin in the Woods, Revolutionary Road, The Happening, Confessions of a Shopaholic, and Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water opposite Ben Affleck.
Connolly’s theater credits include Measure for Measure and All’s Well That Ends Well at NYC’s Shakespeare in the Park, Richard Nelson’s Illyria and King Lear at the New York Public Theater, and Othello and Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.
The actress continues to be represented by Paradigm.
Founded by Jeff Golenberg and Jason Shapiro, Strand Entertainment has also recently signed actresses Genneya Walton, Sol Rodriguez, and Ashley Benson.
