Kay Lenz
Reedy, wistful brunette lead of the 1970s turned versatile character actress of TV in the 80s and 90s. Lenz began as a child actress in local California TV and had played roles on "Ironside," "The Andy Griffith Show" and "The Tammy Grimes Show" before being cast in George Lucas's "American Graffiti" (1973). She enjoyed one of her best-remembered parts that same year when she played a precocious drifter who becomes involved with an older man in Clint Eastwood's third directorial effort, the sensitive if minor "Breezy." Films including "White Line Fever" (1975) and "Moving Violation" (1976), however, did not reinforce her status as a prominent new ingenue, and she began alternating leads with supporting roles later in the decade. Whether playing tough in "Stripped to Kill" (1987) or sexy in the poor country-western drama "Falling from Grace" (1992), Lenz rose above her often middling material, but she was less well-served by "Mean Dog Blues" (1978), and her credits include mostly obscure items like "Fear" (1988) and "Streets" (1990).
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Kay Lenz
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sallywood | Unknown (Character) | - | 2024 |
11% |
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The Secret Lives of Dorks | Mrs. Gibson (Character) | - | 2013 |
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Cock & Bull Story | Claire Coleman (Character) | - | 2003 |
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A Gun, a Car, a Blonde |
Peep/ |
- | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Ragtime | Detective Hill (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey of the Heart | Marvelle (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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Gunfighter's Moon | Linda Yarnell (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapped in Space | Gillings (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shame II: The Secret | Ginny (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Against Their Will: Women in Prison | Lisa Jamison (Character) | - | 1994 |
78% |
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Falling From Grace | P.J. Parks (Character) | $99.8K | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hitler's Daughter | Leona Crawford Gordon (Character) | - | 1990 |
22% |
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Physical Evidence | Deborah Quinn (Character) | $3.5M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder by Night | Karen Hicks (Character) | - | 1989 |
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Headhunter | Katherine Hall (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honor Betrayed | Sharon Haden (Character) | - | 1988 |
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Fear | Sharon Haden (Character) | - | 1988 |
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Stripped to Kill | Detective Cody Sheenan (Character) | - | 1987 |
25% |
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown | Karen Sheldon (Character) | $4.7M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cold Steel and Neon | Kathy Priester (Character) | - | 1986 |
57% |
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House | Sandy Sinclair (Character) | $17.5M | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trial by Terror | Karen Armstrong (Character) | - | 1984 |
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Prisoners of the Lost Universe | Carrie Madison (Character) | - | 1983 |
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Swan Lake | Odile (Voice) | - | 1982 |
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Fast-Walking | Moke (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape | Barbara Chilcoate (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Hustler of Muscle Beach | Jenny O'Rourke (Character) | - | 1980 |
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The Passage | Leah Bergson (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sanctuary of Fear | Carol Bain (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Seeding of Sarah Burns | Sarah Burns (Character) | - | 1979 |
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The Initiation of Sarah | Sarah Goodwin (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mean Dog Blues | Linda Ramsey (Character) | - | 1978 |
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Moving Violation | Cam Johnson (Character) | - | 1976 |
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The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday | Thursday (Character) | - | 1976 |
29% |
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White Line Fever | Jerri Kane Hummer (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Journey From Darkness | Sherry Williams (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unwed Father | Vicky Simmons (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heart in Hiding | Dorie (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Underground Man | Sue Crandell (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy No. 1 | Shirley (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lisa, Bright and Dark | Lisa Schilling (Character) | - | 1973 |
63% |
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Breezy | Edith Alice Breezerman (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Summer Without Boys | Ruth Hailey (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Weekend Nun | Audree Prewitt (Character) | - | 1972 |
TV
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100% | 94% | Adventure Time | Bird Woman (Guest Voice) | 2015 |
90% | 83% | Bones | Harriet White (Guest Star) | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 80% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
90% | 97% | Southland | Naomi Chester (Guest Star) | 2011 |
83% | 84% | The Closer | Mrs. Tatem (Guest Star) | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 84% | NCIS | Connie Quinn Wheeler (Guest Star) | 2008 |
90% | 96% | House | Mrs. Bradberry (Guest Star) | 2007 |
45% | 43% | Heartland | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Agency | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
78% | 83% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Linda Cavanaugh (Guest Star) | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Once and Again | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Tick | Unknown (Character) | 1995 |
86% | 88% | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Gail Matthews (Guest Star) | 1984 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charles in Charge | Joan Robinson (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon | Lolita (Guest Star) | 1984-1985 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Alicia Fiori (Guest Star) | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riptide | Unknown (Character) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 70% | MacGyver | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Nurse Jennie Wells (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Finder of Lost Loves | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Sally DeForest (Guest Star) | 1984 |
97% | 85% | Hill Street Blues | Whitney Barnes (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How the West Was Won | Doreen (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petrocelli | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Sally (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Eve (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Lettie Graham (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Story | Sara (Character) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Sarah Holt (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Andy Griffith Show | Joy (Guest Star) | 1967 |