Kandra King

Kandra Baker is the second oldest of four daughters born to Joyce Harrison (Bismark, North Dakota) and Mel Baker (Colorado Springs, Colorado). With no boys in the family, Kandra was introduced to sports at an early age. She learned to ride horses and skateboard in Texas, snow ski and ice skate in Colorado and became quite adept at water skiing and tennis in San Diego, California, where her family would spend most summer vacations. Her other recreational activity all through childhood was acting. She starting winning Best Actress Awards in junior high school and began doing Community Theater at age nine. Kandra landed in Thousand Oaks, California, to attend California Lutheran University. She graduated Cum Laude with a BS degree in Pre-Law. After her first year of law school, she realized that rather than becoming a lawyer, she'd much rather play one on TV and embarked on an acting career in 1989. She was given the opportunity to work with such notables as Patrick Dempsey and Timothy Bottoms in Ava's Magical Adventure (1998),, Academy Award winner Jon Voight and Armand Assante in Eternity (1990), John Rhys-Davies and Corey Haim in _Double 0 Kid, The (1992)_, Duane Clark and Stephen Baldwin in Bitter Harvest (1993) and Paul Rodriguez and Edward James Olmos in A Million to Juan (1994).In 1994 Kandra decided to diversify and see what creative chord she could strike as a singer/songwriter. She wrote "Children's Songs" (available on Rugged Records) as well as pop, and country tunes produced by Grammy- and Dove-award-winning producer Dino Maddelone. Simultaneously, her enthusiasm for sports drew her to a new journey. She began to train hard as a dancer in all arenas, and was thrilled to perform musical theater throughout Los Angeles. She managed to squeeze in a few television appearances and fell in love with comedy!Her notable theater performances include playing Betsy is "Sweet Charity" directed by Jon Engstrom, who took home the Robby Award for his work on that show. She also got a "kick" out of performing in several musicals, including "Anything Goes" directed by Louis Wilkenfield and "Camelot" directed by Gary Romm at the 2200-seat Thousand Oaks Civic Light Opera. Show less «