The program nearly dropped her, but Kelly convinced them to keep her enrolled.
In 1996, she received a Best Actress Award for her role in the one-act play, The Girl in the Mirror, at the Maine State One-Act Play Festival.
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Sure, her first job was slinging burgers at McDonalds, and before she headed off to college, she spent a summer working in a blueberry factory, but Kelly always knew that she was destined for bigger, better things.