A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Harlem, New York, USA
Born:
October 15, 1985
Kelly Taffe was raised in Harlem, New York and Reston, Virginia. She is the daughter of the late Simone and Henry Taffe, both of Kingston, Jamaica. Her mother Simone was a respected high school teacher in Jamaica but became a Financial Analyst and her father Henry was one of the first black jewelry store owners in Yonkers, New York. Kelly's first professional acting job was in Season To Be, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.while in grade school. She made her New York debut in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Playboy of the West Indies with Lorraine Toussaint. She has worked on Broadway in Horton Foote's last play "Dividing The Estate", on TV in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and HBO's new series, Divorce with Sarah Jessica Parker. Kelly was recently nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Dorcas in Safe House at the Repertory Theater of Saint Louis. She is a working actress in Theater, Film and TV.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.