Kelli Maroney

Kelli Maroney
Kelli Maroney
	Maroney in 2019
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–present
Known for	Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Night of the Comet; Chopping Mall; Ryan's Hope;
Website	www.kellimaroney.com

Kelli Maroney is an American film and television actress. She appeared in the films Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Night of the Comet (1984), Chopping Mall (1986), The Zero Boys (1986) and Scream Queen Hot Tub Party (1991).^[1] Maroney also appeared on television in the soap operas Ryan's Hope and One Life to Live.

Career

Maroney's best-known film roles are Cindy Carr in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Samantha Belmont in Night of the Comet (1984),^[2] Jamie in The Zero Boys (1985), and Allison in Chopping Mall (1986). Her daytime TV roles were as Kimberly Harris Beaulac on the soap opera Ryan's Hope (1979–1983) and Tina Lord on One Life to Live (1984–1985).

She has made numerous guest appearances on TV shows, among them True Blood, Family Feud, Simon & Simon, Murder, She Wrote, FBI: The Untold Stories, and Chicago Hope.

She was featured on the cover of People for a 1980 article titled: Torrid Teens on the Soaps (with actresses Genie Francis and Kristen Vigard).

Maroney appeared as a guest on the Playboy TV 2015 "So Sexy It's Scary" Halloween episode with Jeffrey Reddick and Lisa Wilcox^{[citation needed]}.

She was a guest of and interviewed on Illeana Douglas's 2019 podcast "I Blame Dennis Hopper".^[3]

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Fast Times at Ridgemont High	Cindy
1983	Slayground	Jolene
1984	Night of the Comet	Samantha Sam Belmont
1986	Chopping Mall	Alison Parks
1986	The Zero Boys	Jamie
1987	Big Bad Mama II	Willie McClatchie
1988	Not of This Earth	Nurse Oxford
1989	Jaded	Jennifer
1989	Transylvania Twist	Hannah
1990	Hard to Die	Porno Wife
1991	Servants of Twilight	Sherry Ordway
1991	Scream Queen Hot Tub Party	Kelli Maroney
1993	Midnight Witness	Devon
1999	Sam and Mike	Co-Producer	Short film
2004	Audition	Brett	Short film
2011	Lip Service	Janice
2019	In Search of Darkness^[4]	Herself	Documentary film
2019	Blowing Up Right Now	Ruth
2020	Exorcism at 60,000 Feet	Ms. Jenkins
2020	In Search of Darkness: Part II	Herself	Documentary film
2020	A Well Respected Man	Anita Padgett	Short film
2020	The Deep Ones	Ambrose Zadok
2022	Staycation	Cynthia Oxford

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979–1982	Ryan's Hope	Kimberly Harris	319 episodes
1984	Celebrity	Josie	TV miniseries
1984	One Life to Live	Tina Lord	TV series
1986	Simon & Simon	Angela Fielding	Episode: "Eye of the Beholder"
1986	Murder, She Wrote	Cissy Barnes	Episode: "Menace, Anyone?"
1991	FBI: The Untold Stories	Bonnie Kelly	Episode: "Kill for Love"
1997	The Pretender	Reporter	Episode: "Dragon House: Part 1"
1997	Face Down	Merrie/Meredith	TV movie
1999	Chicago Hope	Grace McNeil	Episode: "Home Is Where the Heartache Is"
2008	True Blood	Televangelist	Episode: "Mine"
2010	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	Kelli	Episode: "Re-Animated"
2012	Gila	Deputy Wilma	Television film

^ Willis, Donald C. Horror and Science Fiction Films IV. 1997. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810830554 p. 234.
^ "Night of the Comet". Variety. December 31, 1983. Retrieved October 6, 2020.
^ "Kelli Maroney". November 14, 2018.
^ Miska, Brad (March 22, 2019). "Exclusive Clip: John Carpenter Joins '80s Horror Documentary 'In Search of Darkness'!". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved May 29, 2019.