Kelli Garner

Kelli Garner – “If I Stay” Los Angeles Premiere – Arrivals – TCL Chinese Theatre, 2014 – Photo Credit: Izumi Hasegawa / PRPhotos.com

Birth Name: Kelli Brianne Garner

Place of Birth: Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States

Date of Birth: April 11, 1984

Ethnicity: English, as well as distant Irish and French, other

Kelli Garner is an American actress. She has appeared in the films Bully, Love Liza, The Aviator (2004), Man of the House (2005), Thumbsucker, Lars and the Real Girl, Normal Adolescent Behavior, G-Force, Horns, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, on the shows Pan Am, Looking, and The Enemy Within, and in the made-for-tv movie The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe.

She was raised in Newbury Park and Thousand Oaks.

Kelli’s paternal grandfather was Ray Thed Garner (the son of Theodore Meldon Garner and Ethel Mae Tabor). Ray was born in McCamey, Texas, to parents from Arkansas, and had deep roots in the U.S. Theodore was the son of Wyatt Franklin Garner and Martha Elizabeth Bradford. Ethel was the daughter of Simon Peter Tabor, whose father was a minister, and of Lillie Bell Holliday.

Kelli’s paternal grandmother was Bettye Junell Emmons (the daughter of Amos Eugene Emmons and Ruby Jewell Macom). Bettye was born in Oklahoma, and had deep roots in the U.S. Her grandparents were all from Arkansas. Amos was the son of William Martin Emmons and Nancy Emma Ruddell. Ruby was the daughter of Leslie Grover Macom and Maudie Lee Hampton.

Kelli’s maternal grandfather’s surname is Crosthwait.

Source: Obituary of Kelli’s paternal grandmother, Bettye Junell (Emmons) Garner –