Kelli Giddish


Place of birth: Cumming, GA
AMC character: Di Kirby

 

ABC.com actor bio:

Kelli Giddish joined the cast of All My Children in March of 2005, creating the role of Di Kirby.

Ms. Giddish graduated from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana where she majored in performance arts. While at Evansville, Ms. Giddish performed in such works as the Kentucky Cycle, Ah, Wilderness, Awake and Sing! and Eleemosynary. During her college years she was selected as an Irene Ryan Finalist which gave her the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Ms. Giddish also studied abroad in Grantham England, but returned to the United States when she was cast in a production of Suzanne Bradbeer's Full Bloom in New York City.

Ms. Giddish's New York City credits include Bobbi Boland, playing opposite Farrah Fawcett, Connie Congdon's Moontel Six at The O'Neill Playwright's Conference, Sherri Wilner's Hunger, Mat Smart's Shoes and Chopin's Preludes, as well as a self written and acted show about a woman atop a water tower entitled Dropsy.

Ms. Giddish just finished a short film entitled Walls by Jack Roberts and continues to be dedicated to developing new projects with undiscovered playwrights.

Born and raised in Cumming, Georgia Ms. Giddish was an all star athlete of her high school's softball team and a staple in her high school's theater department.
 

ABC.com character bio:

Little is known of Di Kirby's past. She came to fellow prisoner Krystal Carey's defense when other inmates were harassing her, but has remained tightlipped about her own situation. She seems to have knowledge of Krystal's ex-boyfriend Tad Martin, but how she knows him remains undetermined.