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Elise in 2012, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Kimberly Elise Trammel
Place of Birth: Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
Date of Birth: April 17, 1967
Ethnicity: African-American
Kimberly Elise is an American actress. Her roles include the films Set It Off , Beloved (1998), Bait (2000), John Q. , The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Woman Thou Art Loosed , Diary of a Mad Black Woman , Pride (2007), The Great Debaters , For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf , Ties That Bind , Highland Park , Dope (2015), Almost Christmas , Death Wish (2018), Ad Astra , and A Snowy Day in Oakland ; the series Soul Food , Close to Home , Grey’s Anatomy , Hit the Floor , Star , and The Mosquito Coast ; and the made-for-tv movies The Ditchdigger’s Daughters , Bojangles , Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story , Hannah’s Law , A Day Late and a Dollar Short , Apple Mortgage Cake , Confirmation (2016), and Carole’s Christmas .
Kimberly is the daughter of Erna (Johnson), an elementary school teacher, and Marvin Trammel, an executive search firm owner. She is married to George McCrary. She has two children with her former husband Maurice Oldham.
Kimberly has ancestry from the Songhai people.