Katherine "Kate" Kendall was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent her early years in the Southern United States. When she was just in the second grade, her family relocated to Washington D.C., where her parents, Syd and Kay, worked for the Carter Administration.
Katherine has three siblings - an older brother, Syd, who is a bassist for the band Les Savy Fav and the director of French Kiss Record Label, a half-sister, Mallory, who is nine years old, and a half-brother, Shane, who is three years old.
Katherine spent seven years training with the Washington Ballet, where she played the role of Clara in the Nutcracker and spent her summers dancing at the School of American Ballet in New York. In 1990, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study acting, winning the Charles Jellinger Award in 1992.
She took on challenging roles in plays such as Carol Churchill's Top Girls and Marsha Norman's Getting Out. In 1995, she moved to Los Angeles and studied with Sharon Chatten and Jeffrey Tambor.
Katherine's most memorable roles have been as Lisa, a waitress in Doug Liman's film Swingers, as Jason Priestley's mate for life in the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210, and as Blythe Danner's daughter in Marcus Spiegel's film The Farmhouse, also known as Eye of the Storm.
In 2001, she lived and worked in China for nine months on a television series called Flatland, produced by Albert S. Ruddy. While working with Dennis Hopper, she became inspired to pursue photography, which she continues to this day.
Katherine also produced, choreographed, designed, and acted in a musical called Dear Bernard, written and directed by her best friend Heather Reed, which ran in Los Angeles in the spring and summer of 2004 to rave reviews.
Today, Katherine resides in West Hollywood, where she teaches dance to children.
