Kathleen York (aka Bird York) is an Academy Award-nominated recording artist, actor and screenwriter.
After spending years in the indie circuit, York achieved global recognition with her song "In the Deep", which appears on her album Wicked Little High and was written for the 2004 film Crash. "In the Deep" debuted at #64 on the Billboard chart and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song. On March 5, 2006, York performed the song live at the 78th Academy Awards.
Her song "Have No Fear"(co written with Michael Becker), was also the main theme song in Seven Pounds. York's songs have also been featured in House, Nip/Tuck, CSI: NY,In Justice, Everwood, Sublime(Warner feature) as well as her work as the featured artist for the 2001 season of the Paul Haggis CBS series Family Law.
As an actor, York has starred in over a hundred film and television projects. York starred as a young Naomi Judd in Love Can Build a Bridge, the four hour NBC miniseries about her life. Other credits include six seasons of the The West Wing recurring as Andrea Wyatt, "Cold Feet" with "Tom Waits", Northern Lights" (with Diane Keaton), Sublime, Crash, Charles' Burnett's NightJohn, indie films such as Cries of Silence, The Big Day and "Ball Don't Lie" as well as cameos in Curb Your Enthusiasm and recurring as "Monique" in season three of "Desperate Housewives". On the screenwriting front, Bird has developed projects for Warner Brothers, Sony, Paramount and is currently writing a one hour pilot for Fox Television Studios. Her new EP Have No Fear was released December 19th and a completed full record will be released in Spring 09.
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