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ABOUT
Keisha Champagne is a Chicago based actor determined to live life to the fullest. A strong intelligent actress with a deep emotional well and a sharp sense of humor, she is often cast as such.
A Pittsburgh native and former Division 1 college athlete, Keisha discovered acting in college and quickly changed her major from Mechanical Engineering to Theatre. After graduation, she moved to LA for the pursuit, but life has other plans. Some beautiful, some devastating. During the hiatus, she was a small business owner and stayed creative.
After a relocation to Chicago, in 2016, Keisha happily returned to acting where she quickly began working professionally. The proponent of working harder and smarter, since her return, she’s trained in improv at Second City and recently completed Chicago’s infamous conservatory "The ACADEMY" at Black Box Acting.
Keisha is probably best known for her appearances as Virginia Cutler on NBC’s Chicago PD. She just had her Chicago stage debut as Keely in the Jeff Recommended Keely and Du at Redtwist Theatre (see what critics are saying here). You can see her latest work here. She is also a writer currently in the process of producing her first web series, SubURBAN.
When not working, you can find Keisha hanging with her husband, dance battling 5 year olds (their twin children) and navigating the psychological minefield that is motherhood. She is represented by Shirley Hamilton, Inc.
REEL
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HERE'S WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING
“Champagne gives Keely a fighting chance. Her range of emotion is heartbreaking in all of the right places and stoically hilarious in others. Never have I fought my baser instincts so hard. I’m not sure what stopped me from crossing the three foot distance to comfort her, despite knowing full well it was a play.”
— Amanda Finn, New City Stage
Photo Credit: Gracie Meier
Photo Credit: Gracie Meier
HERE'S WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING
“Champagne gives Keely a fighting chance. Her range of emotion is heartbreaking in all of the right places and stoically hilarious in others. Never have I fought my baser instincts so hard. I’m not sure what stopped me from crossing the three foot distance to comfort her, despite knowing full well it was a play.”
— Amanda Finn, New City Stage
Photo Credit: Gracie Meier
Photo Credit: Gracie Meier
RESUME
Keisha Champagne
SAG-AFTRA
Height:5'8" || Weight:135 || Eyes:Brown || Hair: Black
TELEVISION
Chicago PD 403,410
Green Soap
FILM
Ageusia
My Daughter was Stolen
In The Witches Garden
The Burning Sands
Coming Home
Match Made In Heaven
COMMERCIALS & INDUSTRIALS
ALDI
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Illinois Lottery “Shopping”
Kelloggs Rice Krispies “Farm”
SEIU “Frames”
THEATRE
Pipeline
Keely and Du**
Kill Local (r)
Trophies (r)
Two Mile Hollow (w)
Black Jam
Terminating (Love’s Fire)
Defining Ourselves
** = Jeff Recommended
Recurring (Season 4)
Co-Star
Supporting
Supporting
Lead
Lead
Lead
Principal
Principal
Principal
Principal
Principal
Principal
Nya (u/s)
Keely
Ami
Janice
Blythe u/s
Improviser
Esther
Ethel Waters
NBC/ Nick Gomez
NCAB-TV/ Angela Gardner
dir. Will Schneider
Lifetime Movie Network/ Don FauntLeroy
Columbia - Chicago/ Yasmin Asif
ArtaNova Entertainment/ Reginald Moser
HITP Productions/ Tim Coultas
USC Grad/ Melinda Epler
Leo Burnett/ Brian Broeckelman
McGarryBowen/ Robert Freeman Smith
Downtown Partners/ Mike Maquire
Leo Burnett/ Jason Georgen
Adelstein Liston/ Stephanie Rabiola
Victory Gardens Theatre/ Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Redtwist Theatre/ Ted Hoerl
Resistance Theatre/ Lavina Jadhwadi
Chicago Dramatists/ Lexi Saunders
First Floor Theater/ Hutch Pimentel
Donny’s Skybox/ John Hildreth
Brick Box Theatre/ Matthew Spain
Howard Hughes Center/ Melanie Lee
(w) world premiere (r) Staged reading
TRAINING
Adv. Acting for the Camera Accomplished on Camera Brittani Ward
The ACADEMY 2018 Black Box Acting (Conservatory Training) Eric Gerard,Kelly O’Sullivan, Andrew
Cutler, Amanda Fink, Alex Elam, Elizabeth
Advanced TV/Film Study Green Room Jenn Noyes
Second City Conservatory Second City Training Center Norm Holly, Megan Hovde, Michael Gellman,
Dana Quercioli, Dionna Griffins-Irons
On Camera I & III Vagabond School Michael McCraken, Patrick Mulvey
Meisner Playhouse West Tony Savant, Sean Barnes
University North Carolina - Charlotte BA in Theatre, BS in Psychology (Cum Laude)
SPECIAL SKILLS
[Print Work: Allstate, Progressive, Highmark, MLB Pittsburgh Pirates]; Improv; Writer; Alto; Dialects: Nigerian, Southern; Sports: Basketball (NCAA Div.1), Tennis, Golf, Softball; Buyer; Photography, Double-Jointed Fingers; Mom (aka The Twin Maker)
GALLERY
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CONTACT
Representation
