Welcome!

My name is Henry Kiely. I am an actor, artist, educational consultant, and foster parent living and working in Los Angeles. I am currently pursuing a career in film and television and am currently looking to secure management (which may be why you’re here!).

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Résumé

Actors Access Profile

LA Casting Profile

Highlights

  • My recent feature Danni and The Vampire (I was the vampire) won the audience choice award in its category for the 2020 Austin Film Festival, as well a few awards at the SOHO Horror Fest, and is still making its rounds in festivals this year!

  • I’m an improviser with teams at Second City Hollywood (Stick Pics) and at Upright Citizen’s Brigade (Parliament) where our team is tied for longest running Messhall team.

  • I’m in national spots for major market brands. You can check some of them out on my media page

  • I’m supporting in Blood Drive a 2021 LA Film Fest pilot selection.

  • My first Primetime Channel 101 entry, I Like To Do Illegal Things In Strangers’ Homes While They Sleep, won Best Failed Pilot at the 2019 Channy awards.

Bio

I grew up doing musical and straight theatre in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and cut my teeth on shows like Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Junior year I played the lead in Molière’s The Forced Marriage, which beat out 52 other schools to be one of two plays representing Vermont at the New England One Act Festival.

I attended Wesleyan University where I double majored in Oil Painting and Mathematics. Senior year my housemates and I wrote and staged a play called New York You Are my Wife - a satirical “Cabaret of errors”.

After graduation, I joined Teach For America and taught middle school maths in Camden NJ, staged a solo exhibition of my paintings in Philadelphia, started a Web Design Company called July Camp with some volunteer friends of mine so that I could work remotely, turned a minivan into a house, moved into it, and slowly toured the US to see as many National Parks as my wife and I could muster.

After five years of living in LA, I have performed regularly as a Second City and UCB improviser, I’ve been a lead in a Indie feature film, booked leads in several commercials, and shot a pilot and a slew of short films. I’m an educational consultant, a foster parent, and I like to rock climb, bike, and hike with my wife, dogs and two foster kids.