Personal life

Kelly was born in Minnesota in 1959 and she is 57 years old now. Her mother Barbara Lynch was a modern dancer and her father Robert Lynch was a restaurant owner. She attended Guthrie Theatre. She married Mitch Glazer in 1992 and is still married to him. She has a daughter, Shane who was born in 1985. Shane was born out of a small term relationship that Kelly had after she broke up with her long time boyfriend. Shane took up Kelly’s maiden name and Kelly never announced her daughter’s father’s name. Kelly openly talks about her personal and romantic biography. She has talked openly about the relationships that she had, before she met Mitch. Though she never gave out any name, she was very open about her history.

Kelly was 7 when her parents got divorced. She is not very sure about the reason for the separation. Kelly lived with her mother who supported her to take up dancing and acting. She lost touch with her father eventually. She got dropped out of college after seven days and took up a job as stewardess after lying about her age. She had a near fatal accident that cracked both her legs. She got addicted on a pain killer when she was in the hospital and struggled a lot to get out of it. When she was around 20 years old, she had a boyfriend who was an aspiring model. Kelly moved to New York with him to continue her acting.

In 1981, she became successful in her career and started spending more time in modeling rounds and in agencies. This caused cracks in their relationship and they broke up. In 1984, while she was working in a film Osa, she realized that she was pregnant. The father of the child was a musician in a studio whom she was dating only for four months. The relationship broke after that but, they continued as friends sharing responsibility of raising her. Shane mostly spent her childhood with Kelly, Kelly’s parents and her nanny.

She did not date anyone for several years after Shane was born. The first real relationship after that long break was Mitch whom she married. Shane’s relationship with Mitch is not known to public. Kelly and Mitch are married for more than 25 years and they are still as close as possible. There is no chance of separation or divorce in near future.

Career

She took up flight attendant job after leaving college. Later, in 1980s, she started studying acting while modeling. She took up small roles along with modeling but, her biggest breakthrough came in 1988 in Cocktail. Later, she took up a lot of different movies. In 1989, she won an award for her role in Road House. She was also nominated for an award for Beans of Egypt, Maine in 1994. She then took up many important roles in movies like Virtuosity, Charlie’s Angels, Mr. Mangoo, Curly Sue and many others. In TV, she is famous for her role as Ivan Aycock in L Word. She also took up a role in Magic City which was written by her husband Mitch Glazer. Her net worth is 20 million dollars.