Emily Kinney

I'll be honest — I didn't expect Beth Greene to be the character that wrecked me on The Walking Dead, but Emily Kinney made that quiet, hymn-singing farm girl feel completely real in a show full of chaos and gore. She took what could've been a fragile background character and turned Beth into someone with actual spine, and her soft acoustic performances in the middle of the apocalypse were genuinely affecting. What I also respect is that Kinney didn't just lean on the TV fame — she's been putting out indie folk-pop music as a serious singer-songwriter on her own terms, which feels authentically her. A Nebraska kid who studied theater, moved to New York for Broadway, ended up iconic on cable TV, and still makes music she clearly believes in — that's a quietly impressive career arc.

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Name (English)

Emily Kinney

Name (Japanese)

エミリー・キニー

Reading

えみりー・きにー

Born

August 15, 1985 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Ox

Origin

Wayne, Nebraska, United States

Occupation

actor / musician / singer / stage actor / television actor

University

Nebraska Wesleyan University

• Official sitehttps://emilykinneymusic.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/emmykinney/
• Xhttps://x.com/emmykinney
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Kinney
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2371083

Tags

• Nebraska
• actor
• musician
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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