Kim Renee

Originally from New York state, Kim Renee moved to Las Vegas when she was a teenager. Her discovery about her passion of theater occurred while attending high school and subsequently worked the midway at Circus Circus. It led to a career as a trapeze artist, working as part of the Flying Dell-Steel's aerial act in Vegas. After high school, she performed and traveled with the European Circus. In 1975, Renee returned to Las Vegas and appeared nightly at the MGM Hotel and Casino as a swimmer with the dolphins in their Hallelujah Hollywood show. Two years later, her agent called her to be a stunt double for Lynda Carter in the "Wonder Woman" television series. That professional career is what led her to join legacy SAG in 1977. In 1978, she transferred my SAG membership to Nevada. In 1995, she and Diane Thorne were successful in creating the SAG Conservatory in Nevada. For many years, Renee sat on the Young Performers Committee and contributed to the Young Performers Handbook. As a member of SAG and SEG, and as the stunt representative for Nevada's committee on stunts, she attended meetings regularly and my interest and participation in SAG increased. Renee successfully lobbied to reduce insurance costs for stunt professionals and proposed a health coverage plan for aging performers that was instituted in 2017 as part of the merged plans. Over a few decades, she sat on many wages and working conditions committees and worked on many cinematic films. From 2015 to 2017, Renee proudly served as vice president for the SAG-AFTRA Nevada Local. Now, as local president, her goal is to institute change to benefit all SAG-AFTRA Nevada Local members.