Kim Waltrip

Kim Waltrip

CEO and President of Wonderstar Productions and Vice Chair of Kim and Jim Productions. Projects include: "OUTRUN"(in production) starring Dax Shepard, Kristin Bell, Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Kristen Chenoweth, Jason Bateman "EXPECTING MARY" starring Elliott Gould, Cloris Leachman, Cybill Shepherd, Della Reese, Fred Willard, Gene Simmons, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan and Olesya Rulin (from High School Musical) "DIAHANN CARROLL, THE LADY, THE MUSIC, THE LEGEND" a PBS special "I DIDN'T COME HERE TO DIE" a horror film ready for a 2011 distribution "ADOPT A SAILOR"starring Bebe Neuwirth, Peter Coyote and Ethan Peck. "A THOUSAND CUTS" starring Michael O'Keefe, Olesya Rulin, Michael A. Newcomer, Jimmy Van Patton, David Naughtonready for 2011. “GRIFFIN GOES TO THE GRAND CANYON” - a children's travel video "VISITING" (short film)premiered at the Palm Springs Short Fest and numerous other festivals around the country. Kim started her career as a model for the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency in 1976 in New York City. In 1980 she ventured off to Europe to continue her modeling profession. In 1998 she moved to Palm Springs to work as the District Director for Congresswoman Mary Bono. There she helped establish the “Mary Bono Walk for Children’s Charities,” the “First Annual 44th Congressional District Mock Congress,” “Bono's Beauties and Beasts - American Cancer Society's Relay for Life” was the liaison for the "Triangular Adoption" program which required detail discipline and a commitment to go to sea with the U.S. Navy in celebration of Assault Helicopter Warship's duties overseas, she established and helped produce the Semper Fi #1 Memorial Honor Detail “AGAIN THEY SERVE” which took the top award in all services of the military. She has served on the Board of Olive Crest Homes for Abused Children, Palm Springs Women in Film, the Tour de Palm Springs, The Richard Oliphant Scholarship Fund, Indian Wells Rotary Club, Blue Ribbon Committee for the General Patton Museum and sits on the advisory board of KPSP Local 2. She was named“Angel of the Year” by the Olive Crest Foundation, received the “Aide de Camp” award by the Semper Fi #1 Memorial Honor Detail, the Woman of Distinction in the Arts 2009 by American Pen Women and received the Appreciate Award from the Semper Fi Memorial Honor Detail again in 2011.