
Photo: Freelance photographer Richard Burdett (Website) / CC BY 3.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Kelly Carlson is, for me, inseparable from Kimber Henry on Nip/Tuck, and that's no small thing. Playing a character that messy and magnetic over a long run takes more control than people give credit for. The detail that she's also a martial artist quietly reframes how I read her, since that discipline tends to leak into presence and physicality on screen. Coming up through modeling before acting is a familiar path, but the Nip/Tuck work suggests she wanted to be taken seriously as a performer, not just a face. The data is sparse, but the role she's known for was genuinely demanding.
Overview
Kelly Carlson is an American actress, model and martial artist. She is best known for her role as Kimber Henry in the FX drama series Nip/Tuck.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Kelly Carlson
- Name (Japanese)
- ケリー・カールソン
- Reading
- けりー・かーるそん
- Born
- February 17, 1976 (age 50)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Dragon
- Origin
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / model / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Television actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.