Kiersten Warren

{{short description|American actress}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=September 2011}} {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=June 2025}} }} {{Infobox person | name = | image = | caption = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = Iowa | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1987–present | spouse = {{marriage|Kirk Acevedo|2005}} | children = 2, including Misti Traya | imagesize = }}

'''Kiersten Warren''' is an American actress.<ref name="Willis2006">{{cite book|last=Willis|first=John|title=Screen World: 2005 Film Annual|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCCkhsztnYgC&pg=PA66|access-date=September 27, 2011|date=April 1, 2006|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-1-55783-668-7|pages=66–}}</ref> Her best known roles include Alex Tabor on ''Saved by the Bell: The College Years'' and Nora Huntington on ''Desperate Housewives''.

==Life and career== Warren was born in Iowa and raised in Hawaii. She traveled with her parents in her youth, singing with them in Baptist churches.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kim |first1=Jae-Ha |title=Actress still most at home in Hawaii |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-kiersten-warren/175149425/ |access-date=June 23, 2025 |work=The Orlando Sentinel |agency=Tribune Content Agency |date=September 17, 2017 |page=F 2|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref> When she was older she lived in Tokyo and made commercials. She moved to Los Angeles in 1990 to seek employment as an actress.<ref>{{cite news |title=Meet Kiersten Warren |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bay-city-times-kiersten-warren/175149972/ |access-date=June 23, 2025 |work=The Bay City Times |agency=Universal Press Syndicate |date=March 15, 1994 |page=18|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>

Warren is the mother of actress Misti Traya, who has a daughter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-health/11600098/Stress-I-ground-my-teeth-so-hard-from-stress-I-dislocated-my-jaw.html|title=I ground my teeth so hard from stress I dislocated my jaw|last=Traya|first=Misti|website=The Daily Telegraph|date=May 15, 2015}}</ref> Warren is now{{when|reason=A specifcic time reference is needed here, such as "As of (date)".|date=August 2022}} married to actor Kirk Acevedo.{{Citation needed |date=September 2023}} In 2009, she appeared in an episode of ''Fringe'' ("Unleashed") as the wife of Charlie Francis, Acevedo's character. In 2003, she appeared in an episode of ''The West Wing'' titled "Life on Mars", and in 2009, appeared in an episode of ''Nip/Tuck'' titled "Jenny Juggs" as Jenny Juggs.

She has appeared in numerous films, including ''13 Going on 30'', ''Intolerable Cruelty'', ''Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'', ''Bicentennial Man'' and ''Independence Day''.

== Filmography ==

=== Film === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1996 |''Independence Day'' |Tiffany | |- |1997 |''Painted Hero'' |Teresa | |- |1999 |''Pushing Tin'' |Karen | |- |1999 |''Liberty Heights'' |Annie | |- |1999 |''Bicentennial Man'' |Galatea | |- |2000 |''Duets'' |Candy Woods | |- |2001 |''Circuit'' |Nina | |- |2002 |''Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'' |Younger Necie Kelleher | |- |2003 |''Black Cadillac'' |Jeannine | |- |2003 |''Intolerable Cruelty'' |Claire O'Mara | |- |2003 |''{{sortname|The|Snow Walker}}'' |Estelle | |- |2004 |''13 Going on 30'' |Trish Sackett | |- |2006 |''Hoot'' |Mrs. Eberhardt | |- |2006 |''Bring It On: All or Nothing'' |Pamela "Pam" Allen |Video |- |2006 |''{{sortname|The|Astronaut Farmer}}'' |Phyllis | |- |2008 |''Christmas Cottage'' |Tanya | |- |2009 |''Charades'' |Nikki |Short film |- |2012 |''Silent but Deadly'' |Rachel | |- |2016 |''{{sortname|The|Thinning}}'' |Barbara Michaels | |- |2016 |''{{sortname|An|Inherited Life|nolink=1}}'' |Penny | |- |2017 |''{{sortname|The|Invisible Mother|nolink=1}}'' |Coco | |}

=== Television === {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1987 |''Magnum, P.I.'' |Sugar |Episode: "The Aunt Who Came to Dinner" |- |1990 |''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'' |Diana |Episode: "Exile" |- |1990 |''Hurricane Sam'' |Trisha Kelvin | rowspan="5" |Television film |- |1990 |''Silhouette'' |Sandra Kimball |- |1991 |''False Arrest'' |Eden |- |1992 |''Fugitive Among Us'' |Sherry Nash |- |1992 |''Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive'' |Tina Williams |- |1992 |''Hearts Afire'' |Tammy |"First Time" |- |1992–1993 |''Life Goes On'' |Goodman |Recurring role |- |1993–1994 |''Saved by the Bell: The College Years'' |Alex Tabor |Main role |- |1994 |''Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas'' |Alex Tabor |Television film |- |1995 |''Cybill'' |Kathy |"Mourning Has Broken" |- |1997 |''JAG'' |Princess Alexandra |"Washington Holiday" |- |1997 |''Night Man'' |Bonnie Parker |"That Ol' Gang of Mine" |- |1998 |''Maximum Bob'' |Leanne Lancaster |Main role |- |1998 |''Fantasy Island'' |Jeanette |"We're Not Worthy" |- |2001 |''Thieves'' |Teri |"Dey Got De Degas" |- |2001 |''Wolf Lake'' |Nancy |"Tastes Like Chicken" |- |2003 |''{{sortname|A|Painted House}}'' |Stacy Dale |Television film |- |2003 |''{{sortname|The|West Wing}}'' |Blair Spoonhour |"Life on Mars" |- |2004 |''Paradise'' |Grace Paradise |Television film |- |2006, 2012 |''Desperate Housewives'' |Nora Huntington |Recurring role; 9 episodes (recurring season 3, guest season 2 and 8) |- |2007 |''Dirty Sexy Money'' |Ellen Darling |"Pilot" |- |2007–2009 |''Slacker Cats'' |Tabitha (voice) |"Mexico", "Casino Miaow", "Work, Work, Work" |- |2008 |''Dirt'' |Martina Linn |"Welcome to Normal" |- |2009 |''Fringe'' |Sonia |"Unleashed" |- |2009 |''Acceptance'' |Grace |Television film |- |2009 |''Nip/Tuck'' |Jenny Juggs |"Jenny Juggs" |- |2011 |''Beyond the Blackboard'' |Danny's Mom |Television film |- |2011 |''CSI: Miami'' |Darla Chambers |"Crowned" |- |2012 |''Workaholics'' |Gayle Reynolds |"The Business Trip" |- |2012–2013 |''Bunheads'' |Claire Thompson |"Inherit the Wind", "What's Your Damage, Heather?", "The Astronaut and the Ballerina" |- |2013 |''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' |Monica Downs |"Ghosts of the Past" |- |2015 |''{{sortname|The|Mentalist}}'' |Kelis Weir |"Brown Shag Carpet" |- |2015 |''Girl Missing'' |Sylvia |TV film |- |2018 |''Dirty John'' |Britt |"Red Flags and Parades" |}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070122220230/http://www.thestarscoop.com/2006oct/kiersten-warren.php Interview with TheStarScoop.com, October 2006]}}

Category:American film actresses Category:American television actresses Category:Living people Category:20th-century American actresses Category:21st-century American actresses Category:Year of birth missing (living people)