Nickname:	Kimberly Elise / Kimberly Elise Oldham / Kim Trammel
Known for:	Diary of a Mad Black Woman / John Q / Woman Thou Art Loosed
Birth name:	Kimberly Elise Trammel
Birthday:	17 April 1967, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Height:	5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Available Photos	2

Though she took filmmaking classes at Minneapolis Community College, she got her degree in communications from the University of Minnesota, then went on to the American Film Institute. She was a member in good standing of the Northern Warehouse Artists' Cooperative, an experimental housing development for low-income artists located in warehouse district of downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. Her children are AjaBleu, 14 and Butterfly, 6 (as of 2004). Starred with Denzel Washington twice, in The Manchurian Candidate and John Q. Bears a strong and uncanny resemblance to actress Cicely Tyson, who portrays her mother in the movie Diary of a Mad Black Woman . She won "The Best Supporting Actress" award at the 19th Annual Cable Ace Awards in 1997 for her portrayal as "Jeanette" in "The Ditchdigger's Daughters".

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