Minka Kelly

Minka Kelly

Stats

Measurements: 34-24-33
Height: 5'5"
Date of birth: 6/24/80
Eye color: Brown
Hair Color: Brunette
Ethnicity: American (French, New Zealander, Fijian & Pacific Islander)
Job: actress


Bio

As a star of the NBC show Friday Night Lights, Minka Kelly makes you want to go back to high school. But before her acting career took off, Kelly says her life was pretty miserable.

Her father, Rick Dufay was a former Areosmith guitarist who left Kelly and her mother. At the age of 17, Minka decided enough was enough and reconciled with her father. Good thing to, because she then moved in with him in Los Angeles and started acting as a hobby while she studied to be a surgical technician.

When the acting gigs starting coming in, she quickly ditched studying to focus on the more lucrative jobs. She had a small role in State's Evidence and caught the eye of director Peter Berg, who cast her in Friday Night Lights as Lyla Garrity. She can also be seen in the 2007 film The Kingdom, which was also directed by Berg. Kelly is currently engaged to New York Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter.


Fun Facts

#42 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007

#54 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008

Daughter of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay


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