Kira Powell

SAG-AFTRA Actor

Kira Powell is a Los Angeles–based SAG-AFTRA actor whose work spans feature films, short films, television, commercials, and live performance. Her credits include the feature film The Endless, a co-star appearance on CBS’s Scorpion, and an extensive body of commercial work for major brands.

FEATURED SCREEN PERFORMANCE

THE ENDLESS

Kira appears as Lizzy in Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s science-fiction horror feature The Endless, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. RogerEbert.com singled out her performance as one of the film’s standouts. WATCH SCENES

Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead

“The best are probably … Kira Powell as the kind of glassy-eyed kook that [Shelley] Duvall used to specialize in.”— Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

Seitz also praised Powell’s “zonked-out, practically affectless” delivery as one of the film’s “just-right grace notes.”
— RogerEbert.com

“Kira Powell’s Lizzy … whose languid, dreamlike manner comes into stark contrast with the increasingly disturbing content of her drawings.” — Harold Jaffe, Picture This Post

SOLO PERFORMANCE

Caught in the Mix

(Writer, Director, Performer)

An award-winning autobiographical solo show exploring Afro-Latinx identity, anti-Blackness, belonging, and self-acceptance. Presented at the Hollywood Fringe Festival and selected for the United Solo Theatre Festival at Theatre Row in New York.

“Kira Powell is a warrior. She owns the stage as she owns her story.”
— Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros, NoHo Arts District

“Just as Kira gently breaks your heart, she picks up the pieces in a contagious fervor.”
— Constance Strickland, LAFPI

Awards & Presentations
Hollywood Fringe Diversity Scholarship · Best of Broadwater Award · Soaring Solo Social Impact Award · United Solo Theatre Festival at Theatre Row, New York.

Selected Commercial Work

Kira’s commercial work includes nationally aired spots for major brands across the automotive, technology, retail, food and telecommunications industries, collaborating with acclaimed commercial and feature directors.

Jif — Squirrel (Dir. Wayne McClammy)

AT&T — High Five, Low Budge (Dir. Gerald Ding)

Toyota — Party (Dir. Bob Balaban)

Samsung — Sister (Dir. John Hillcoat)

McDonald’s — Decision Face (Dir. Josh & Xander)

Honda — Carnival (Dir. Lernert & Sander)

Honda — Secret Life of Fitz (Dir. Drea Cooper)

Pringles — Guacamole (Dir. Larry Charles)

Pringles — Imaginary Dip (Dir. Larry Charles)

ParaGard — Let’s You Be You (Dir. Mike G.)

Cox Communications — Fast Speeds Everywhere (Dir. Jackie Jutelson)

Xfinity — Because I Can (Dir. Pucho)

Ace Hardware — History (Dir. Jason Smith)

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