Kimberly Cullum (born 29 November 1981; age 30) is the actress who played young Gia in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Thine Own Self". She is the sister of Kaitlin Cullum, who was a regular on the hit television series Grace Under Fire, on which Kimberly guest-starred twice and which also featured Paul Dooley.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Kimberly began acting professionally at the age of seven, when she in the 1989 made-for-TV movie The Revenge of Al Capone, starring Keith Carradine. Since then, she has amassed of Young Artist Award nominations for her roles in the 1991 TV movie The Sitter (co-starring Brett Cullen and Eugene Roche), the 1991 film The Rapture, and the 1992 TV movie Grave Secrets (also featuring Dakin Matthews). She was also nominated for a YA Award for her performance on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Of her eight Young Artist Award nominations, she has won two: her first was for her work in an three-episode arc on Quantum Leap, starring future Star Trek: Enterprise performers Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell and also guest-starring Parley Baer, Fran Bennett, and Meg Foster. She won her second YA Award for her appearances on the sitcom Home Improvement, playing the daughter to Mark L. Taylor's character. Among her other credits are appearances on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Empty Nest (in an episode with Robert Costanzo and Megan Gallagher), and VR.5 (with Louise Fletcher), the 1994 TV movie Long Shadows (with Matt Frewer), and the 1994 films Monkey Trouble (with Aaron Lustig and Christopher McDonald) and Maverick (with Henry Darrow, Stephen Liska, William Marshall, and Bert Remsen).

In 1995, she and Don Stark were regulars on the short-lived series Bless This House. Cullum has not acted since her Young Artist Award-nominated appearance on Nothing's Sacred in 1998.

External linksEdit

• Kimberly Cullum at Wikipedia
• Kimberly Cullum at the Internet Movie Database