Rae'Ven Kelly rejoices with everything she's been blessed with.
Giving back, is just her being Rae'Ven.
Having spent her entire childhood working, Rae'Ven Kelly is one of the most important child actors of her generation. Her film breakout role came at 8 years of age as the young Tina Turner in What's Love Got To Do With It, working with Lawrence Fishburne and Angela Bassett. She went on to appear in some of the most iconic films during the 1990's-co-starring in John Grisham's A Time To Kill, as Tonya Hailey with Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughey; and Ghosts of Mississippi, as Rena Evers with Whoopi Goldberg, James Wood and Alex Baldwin, among many others.
Kelly booked her first professional job, a modeling assignment, at two months old. At 16 months, she was cast in her first TV commercial for Huggies® Diapers. At six years old, she was cast in her first TV role as a series regular in I'll Fly Away starring Sam Waterston and Regina Taylor. Kelly's TV credits mounted after that, some include: Living Single, Roseanne, Touched by an Angel, ER, Maximum Bob, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hannah Montana, and several others.
Today, Rae'Ven Kelly is a thriving young woman who survived the pitfalls many child actors fall victim to. She is the co-founder of Everlasting Entertainment, a multi-media entertainment production company. Kelly, with her husband Sean Dinwoodie have created something special unlike any other company in film, television, theatre and the music industry. Everlasting Entertainment is dedicated to developing projects with former child actors and/or second-generation Hollywood actors, both behind and in front of the camera. In addition, for every project produced, a portion of the profits go to benefit The Rae of Hope Foundation-an organization with one mission: to end the financial, emotional, and physical abuse/exploitation of child actors, while providing them with legal aid, mentorship/networking opportunities, and emotional support to protect their interests.
Rae'Ven Kelly is the recipient of many industry awards: The Emerging Artist Award for her television and film works; Best Youth Actress TV Mini-Series/MOW/Special for Lily in Winter, and Best Youth Actress in a Leading Role Television Series for I'll Fly Away.
The NAACP honored Kelly with several nominations: National Equity Theatre Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actress 2003 in Achieving the Dream. She was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Best Youth Performer for A Time to Kill and I'll Fly Away. In 2009, she won the NAACP Theater Award for Best Lead Actress for her role as a 65-year old spiritual witch doctor in Turpentine Jake. And, she garnered many other awards for her work in the mini-series Freedom Song, TV series Sweet Justice, TV movie Lily in Winter and in the film What's Love Got To Do With It.
Rae'Ven Kelly has had a life journey as interesting, challenging and witty as some of the characters she's portrayed. Not many actors can claim to have worked with the most iconic women in film, TV and stage: Cecily Tyson, Marla Gibbs, Angela Bassett, Natalie Cole, Sandra Bullock, Whoopi Goldberg, Debbie Allen, Viola Davis, Jasmine Guy, Lorraine Toussaint, Anne Bancroft, Claire Danes, Maya Angelou, Della Reese Ester Rolle, and Roseanne Barr. She also worked with her Godmother, the late Yolanda King, daughter of Martin Luther King, in the 1996 film Ghosts of Mississippi. Many of these women are considered today her close friends and mentors.
Kelly made history when she became the youngest child chairperson for the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatrics Aids Foundation, where she helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the organization. Kelly is active in dozens of other charities, some include: Audrey Hepburn Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Association, Kids With A Cause, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, NAACP (ACT-SO Youth Program), LAUSD and Santa Monica Malibu School Districts, Atlanta Public Schools, and Urban Leader (NC, SC, GA & CA).
As a singer, when Kelly performed at the Grand Old Opry, she became the youngest black woman to ever sing on this stage. She was also honored when the Mayor of Los Angeles invited her to sing duets at the City Hall celebrating Black History with Stevie Wonder, Yolanda Adams, and Kirk Franklin, and was given the key to the city. In the film Preacher's Wife, Kelly dubbed the voice of the young boy singing Jeremiah Biggs, portrayed by Justin Pierre Edmund. And, she sang for the sound track of Music of the Heart, among several other films including, Amistad.
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