Biography
(Cherokee, Colville, Salish-Kootenai) A native Oklahoman and graduate of UCLA, Kimberly enjoys a career in entertainment as an actor, writer and director and also works with tribal communities throughout North America teaching filmmaking as a creative tool promoting personal and community development. A few of her film and television credits include Longmire, Grey’s Anatomy, Hidalgo and The Sopranos though she is most often recognized as “Winona”, Jerry’s Native American girlfriend on Seinfeld. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Menil and her Heart
2025
as Donna
When her sister Menil vanishes from their Southern California Indian Reservation, Nesune embarks on a frantic search to find her, a journey that takes...

Keep Quiet
2025
as Dyani
A weathered tribal cop and his new trainee must find a ruthless fugitive, whose return to their rural Indigenous reservation has exposed its darkest s...

Hail to the Breadsticks!
2024
as Self
Writer producer Donick Cary (The Simpsons, Parks and Recreation, Have a Good Trip, etc.) has been a huge fan of the Washington D.C. pro football team...

Montana Story
2022
as Valentina
Two estranged siblings return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved in order to care for their ailing father.

Catch the Fair One
2022
as Jaya
A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

The Glorias
2020
as Wilma Mankiller
An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement ...

Frozen Stupid 2: Open Water
2020
as Stormy
When Tony's car is towed out of Lake Houghton (again), the D.N.R. decides to hit him with a huge fine. Luckily for Tony there is a fishing tournament ...

The Dark Divide
2020
as Teresa
A shy butterfly expert embarks on a dangerous, life-changing trek through one of America’s greatest unprotected wildlands at the urging of his dying w...

Dogman 2: The Wrath of the Litter
2014
It's been a year since the Dogman terrorized this Midwestern community and nearly killed Hank Purvis. But now, things seem to have settled down. Every...

The Cherokee Word for Water
2013
as Wilma Mankiller
The Cherokee Word for Water is a feature-length motion picture that tells the story of the work that led Wilma Mankiller to become the first modern fe...

Dogman
2012
as Francis Wellman
Hanklin Purvis enjoys the outdoors, and he loves to hunt. He and his wife, Dorothy, live on a farm in the rural mid-west. For some reason, during the ...

Taking Chances
2009
as Mary Born Kicking
When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a sma...

Frozen Stupid
2008
as Stormy (as Kimberly Norris)
Tony loves ice fishing.

Hidalgo
2004
as Frank's Mother
Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive c...

Barn Red
2004
as Lydia Bailey
An elderly farmer finds out that he owes a huge inheritance tax. Land developers show up to offer him a predatory deal. His neighbors are having simil...

American Indian Graffiti: This Thing Life
2003
as Aunt Kay
AMERICAN INDIAN GRAFFITI: THIS THING, LIFE is an ensemble drama about four Native Americans whose lives intertwine with one another, taking place over...

Escanaba in da Moonlight
2001
as Wolf Moon Dance Soady
A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.

Naturally Native
1999
as Karen Lewis
Naturally Native follows the lives, loves, pain, joy and relationships of three sisters as they attempt to start their own business. Of American India...

Knight Rider 2010
1994
as Maria
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".

Geronimo
1993
The story of the greatest Native American warrior who, together with the rest of his Apache tribesmen, defied American and Mexican Armies in 1867. Fin...

Cottonmouth
N/A
as Valentina
When Ed Dantes is framed and condemned to the tortures of a territorial prison in the 1895, he must learn the ways of the outlaw to escape and exact h...