Kristin grew up in Wisconsin playing sports, riding horses, and shooting guns. Her father was an avid horseman and gun collector and her mother a housewife involved in charities. Kristin moved to LA and began acting in 1994 after studying fine arts for two years in New York. She still studies drawing to this day and is an avid art collector. She lives in LA with her two dogs and a cat. Her main hobbies, besides art, are Karate and a humorous t-shirt company with Liz Vassey called Neuroses to a T(ee) at www.justdumped.com.