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Kim Director

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ435790
Source-derived summary

Kimberly Ann Director is an American actress. She has played the roles of Kim Diamond in Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000), and Stevie in Inside Man (2006). She appeared as a recurring guest star on the HBO series The Deuce (2017–2019).

Early life

Raised in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Director graduated from Upper St. Clair High School in Upper St. Clair in 1993. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997.

Career

Director's first film role was in 1998's He Got Game, directed by Spike Lee. This was followed by Summer of Sam in 1999 and Bamboozled in 2000, both films also directed by Lee. Her breakout performance came in the film Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 as the hard-core Goth girl, Kim Diamond.

Editorial summary

“Kim Director” enters the record as american actress. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Director, American and actress can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2006, 2017, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Director, American and actress.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kim Director” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Director, American and actress provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q435790. VIAF identifies the subject as 302942147. The Library of Congress control number is no2010137216. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2006, 2017 and 2019.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Kim Director” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.