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Kimberly Elise

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Kimberly Elise was born April 17, 1967 in St. Paul Minnesota and is a film and television actress. She is best known for her role in the films Set It Off, John Q, and Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Elise is a four-time NAACP Image Award winner. Elise was born as Kimberly Elise Trammel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Erma Jean (née Johnson), an elementary school teacher, and Marvin Trammel, who owns an executive search firm. She has three siblings. Elise studied film and acting at the University of Minnesota and earned a BA in Mass Communications. Elise's maternal descent is of the Songhai people in Mali. Elise's first movie was Set It Off (1996), in which she played one of four women who resort to robbing a bank for money. Her big break came in 1997 when she was cast in the Family Channel original television movie The Ditch digger’s Daughters.

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