Emily Rebecca Kinney (born August 15, 1985 in Wayne, Nebraska) is an American actress and recording artist. She is best known for her role as Beth Greene in the AMC television series The Walking Dead.
Television roles:
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2008; episode: "Contract")
- The Unusuals (2009; episode: "The Apology Line")
- The Good Wife (2010; episode: "Bad Girls")
- The Big C (2011)
- The Walking Dead (2011 – 2015)
- Law & Order: SVU (2012; episode: "Hunting Ground")
- The Following (2014; episode: "Teacher's Pet")
- Forever (2014; episode: "Memories of Murder")
- Arrowverse (2015; 2016) as Brie Larvan / Bug-Eyed Bandit:
- Masters of Sex (2015)
- The Knick (2015)
- Conviction (2016 – 2017)
Stage roles:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003, 2005)
- Spring Awakening (2006)
- August: Osage County (2009)
- Peter Pan: The Musical (2010)
Game roles:
- The Walking Dead: Destinies (2023)
Tropes invoked in her works:
- Ascended Extra: She's originally supposed to be just a minor character in The Walking Dead but she eventually becomes more prominent and eventually gets promoted to series regular up until the show's mid-Season 5 finale.
- Break the Cutie: Has a tendency to play characters with bad, bad luck.
- The Cast Show Off: Because she's a singer, the showrunners of The Walking Dead decided to make her use it.
- Classically-Trained Extra: Before being cast as Beth Greene, she mainly play bit roles.
- The Danza: In her guest recurring role in The Big C.
- Dawson Casting: She played characters who are a decade younger than her (read: Beth Greene, Anna Reiniger and Jean Fordham).
- Fake Nationality: Played a Fake German in Spring Awakening.
- Hipster: A lot of her music videos have this vibe.
- Older Than They Look: Her short stature is perhaps the main reason she's prone to Dawson Casting.
- She Also Did: She's originally a theater actress before being in The Walking Dead. She also is a singer (if that's not obvious enough already).
- Star-Making Role: As Beth Greene in The Walking Dead. That being said, she gained some notice in her earlier work as (the second) Anna Reiniger in Spring Awakening.
- You All Look Familiar: She guested twice in the Law & Order franchise as two different characters.