Kali Rocha

Kali Michele Rocha (born December 5, 1971) is an American actress. She is currently best known for portraying Karen Rooney, the mother of four Rooney children and school's vice principal, in the Disney Channel sitcom, Liv and Maddie. She has also co-written three episodes of the show.

Career

Rocha's career began on stage immediately after graduating from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. She was in an August 1993 revival of the Jane Bowles play In the Summer House at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.^[2] Her on-screen debut was in the 1996 cinematic adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, as Mercy Lewis.

Rocha stood out when she played the Atlantic American flight attendant who argued with Ben Stiller's character at the airport in the 2000 comedy Meet The Parents, a role she reprised in the sequel Meet The Fockers. She also had a recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Anya's vengeance demon friend, Halfrek, as well as William the Bloody's love affection, Cecily. The two characters are considered the same person. Rocha played Stonewall Jackson's wife, Anna in Ron Maxwell's Gods and Generals, an epic drama about the first two years of the American Civil War. Other films include The Object of My Affection, Autumn in New York, White Oleander, When Billie Beat Bobby, and Ready? OK!.

In 2000, Rocha created the role of Cybil in Nicky Silver's off-Broadway comedy The Altruists, starring alongside Eddie Cahill, Veanne Cox, and Sam Robards.^[3]

She has appeared on the Will and Grace episode "Strangers With Candice", as a straight woman who flirted with Will. In spring 2006, Rocha began acting in the short-lived NBC sitcom Teachers. Kali guest-starred in on the February 20, 2007, episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Cindy Marino, an aggressive TV reporter. Also, she appeared on an episode of Bones as a victim's mother. Rocha has also played the character of a fourth-year resident surgeon, Dr. Sydney Heron, at Seattle Grace Hospital in the ABC TV series Grey's Anatomy.

In 2009, Rocha appeared with fellow Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Emma Caulfield in the film TiMER.^[4]

Rocha starred in the first and only season of Sherri starring Sherri Shepherd from The View which was loosely based on Shepherd's life. Rocha played Summer, Sherri's boss and eventual friend. It aired on the Lifetime Network.

Personal life

In January 2008, Rocha announced that she was pregnant.^[5] She gave birth to her son at age 36, Barlow Aix Krikorian on August 4, 2008, and her daughter at age 39, Savria Dune Krikorian on January 25, 2011.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

• Kali Rocha at the Internet Movie Database
• Kali Rocha at the Internet Broadway Database
  
• Kali Rocha at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Kali Rocha at TV.com