Kim Waltrip is the owner of Wonderstar Productions and co-owner of Kim and Jim Productions, LLC. A film and television production company based out of Palm Springs, CA.

Career

She has produced such films as Expecting Mary

Expecting Mary

Expecting Mary is a 2010 comedy-drama film starring Elliott Gould and Linda Gray. It was directed by Dan Gordon and produced by Kim Waltrip with executive producer Jim Casey The film premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2010 on January 16 and was selected as the opening film at...

, starring Elliott Gould

Elliott Gould

Elliott Gould is an American actor. He began acting in Hollywood films during the 1960s, and has remained prolific ever since. Some of his most notable films include M*A*S*H and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, for which he received an Oscar nomination...

, Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award...

, Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Lynne Shepherd is an American actress, singer and former model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, as Betsy in Taxi Driver, as Madeleine Spencer in Psych, as Maddie Hayes on Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan on Cybill, and as Phyllis Kroll on The L...

, Della Reese

Della Reese

Delloreese Patricia Early, known professionally as Della Reese , is an American actress, singer, game show panelist of the 1970s, one-time talk-show hostess and ordained minister. She started her career in the 1950s as a gospel, pop and jazz singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You...

, Fred Willard

Fred Willard

Fred Willard is an American actor, comedian, and voice over actor, best known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration as well as...

, Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, actor, and rock bassist. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.-Early life:...

, Linda Gray

Linda Gray

Linda Ann Gray is an American actress, best known for her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the television prime-time soap opera Dallas.-Career:Prior to acting, Gray began working as a model in the 1960s...

, Lainie Kazan

Lainie Kazan

Lainie Kazan is an American actress and singer.-Personal life:Kazan was born Lanie Levine in Brooklyn, New York City, the daughter of a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish father who worked as a bookie and a Turkish Sephardic Jewish mother, Carole, whom Kazan has described as "neurotic, fragile and...

, and Olesya Rulin

Olesya Rulin

Olesya Rulin is a Russian-American actress and singer who is perhaps best known for co-starring in the first three films of the High School Musical franchise as Kelsi Nielsen. She also starred in the films Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous and Flying By .-Early life:Rulin was born Olesya...

 (from High School Musical

High School Musical

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). Lionsgate Entertainment picked the film up for a television premier with a new title: A Very Merry Christmas -due at Christmas 2011. Her PBS special Diahann Carroll, The Lady, The Music, The Legend airs in August 2010, and her recently completed horror film, I Didn't Come Here to Die will be ready for 2011 distribution. She also just wrapped a thriller starring Michael O'Keefe

Michael O'Keefe

Michael Raymond O'Keefe is an American film and television actor.- Early life :O'Keefe was born Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr. in Mount Vernon, New York, the oldest of seven children in a devoutly Roman Catholic Irish American family. His father was a law professor at Fordham University, as well as...

, Olesya Rulin

Olesya Rulin

Olesya Rulin is a Russian-American actress and singer who is perhaps best known for co-starring in the first three films of the High School Musical franchise as Kelsi Nielsen. She also starred in the films Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous and Flying By .-Early life:Rulin was born Olesya...

, and Michael A. Newcomer titled A Thousand Cuts which will be ready for distribution in 2011.

In 2009 Kim produced the critically acclaimed movie Adopt a Sailor which was accepted in over twenty film festivals. The film stars Bebe Neuwirth

Bebe Neuwirth

Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife , on both the TV sitcom Cheers , and its spin-off Frasier...

, Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

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 and Ethan Peck

Ethan Peck

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, the grandson of Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

 who also won a Best Actor Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival. The film also won The Audience Favorite award at the Salem Film Festival and it has just received a Telly Award. She produced and directed a Children's video Griffen Goes to the Grand Canyon and she established and helped produce the Semper Fi Memorial Honor Detail Again They Serve which took the top award in all services of the military. She also was the co-creator of the Patti Gribow Show, a television talk show based in the Palm Springs, CA, area.

Personal life

Kim started her career as a model for the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency in 1976 and she ventured off to Europe where she continued her modeling career in Paris, Munich, Zurich and Milan. She has appeared in numerous television shows and films before moving to Palm Springs to work as the District Director for Congresswoman Mary Bono. There she helped establish the “Mary Bono Walk for Children’s Charities,” the “First Annual 44th Congressional District Mock Congress,” was the liaison for the "Triangular Adoption" program which required detail discipline and a commitment to go to sea with the U.S. Navy in celebration of Assault Helicopter Warship's duties overseas, she was the Team Captain for “Bono's Beauties and Beasts - American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.”

She is a Board of Trustee for the Olive Crest Homes for Abused and Neglected Children's Foundation, who also named a scholarship in her honor, she is a former Board Member of Palm Springs Women in Film and Television, is past Chairwoman of the Richard Oliphant Scholarship Fund, a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee for the General Patton Museum and. Kim was honored with the “Angel of the Year” award by the Olive Crest Foundation, the “Aide de Camp” award by the Semper Fi Memorial Honor Detail, and she received the Woman of Distinction in the Arts 2009 by American Pen Women.

As actress

• 1986: Cheers
• 1987: In The Heat of The Night
• 1987: Hardball
• 1987: Guns of Paradise
• 1987: Nights In White Satin: Stevie Hughes
• 1987: Pretty Smart
  Pretty Smart
  Pretty Smart is a 1987 American comedy-drama film starring Tricia Leigh Fisher and Patricia Arquette. It was directed by Dimitri Logothetis. It was Arquette's first film.-Plot:...
  
  : Sara Gentry
• 2009: Outlaw Trail: Sally

As producer

• 2008 : Adopt a Sailor
• 2008 : Her Morbid Desires
• 2009 : Visiting
• 2010 : Expecting Mary
  Expecting Mary
  Expecting Mary is a 2010 comedy-drama film starring Elliott Gould and Linda Gray. It was directed by Dan Gordon and produced by Kim Waltrip with executive producer Jim Casey The film premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2010 on January 16 and was selected as the opening film at...
  
  a.k.a. "A Very Mary Christmas"
• 2010 : I Didn't Come Here to Die
• 2010 : Diahann Carroll - the Music, the lady, the legend]
• 2011 : "A Thousand Cuts"

External links

• Bio at WonderStar Productions
• Producing an Independent Film with Kim Waltrip nthWORD Magazine