The middle of five children. His father was a police officer/detective and his mother was a social worker. He received his B.A. from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and pursued his M.F.A. on a full scholarship at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Kelly has appeared in numerous off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions, primarily at the Public Theater and the Second Stage. A product of regional national theater, he has been a company member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Folger Theater, Arena Stage, and the Actors Theater of Louisville among others. He toured with the National Players, the oldest classical touring company in the United States. He starred on Broadway as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and as Paul Verrall opposite Madeline Kahn in "Born Yesterday". In 2003, he appeared at the Mark Taper Theater Forum, originating the role of Richard in "Living Out" by Lisa Loomer.
A Child's Cry for Help
1994
Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story
1998
Cujo
1983
Holiday Breakup
2016
Someone to Watch Over Me
1987
Star Trek: Insurrection
1998
The Good Son
1993
Devil May Call
2013
Five Desperate Hours
1997
Labor of Love
1998
Citizen Cohn
1992
Among the Shadows
2019
Far More
2021
God's Country
2012
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
The Tuskegee Airmen
1995
Guardian
2001
Crazy Alien
2019
Invasion Roswell
2013
Bad Company
1995
Growing Up Brady
2000
Sex, Death and Bowling
2015
ToY
2015
The Monkey's Paw
2013
Chill Factor
1999
A Father's Secret
2016
Mischief Night
2013
Skipping Stones
2021
The In Crowd
2000
Nowhere to Hide
1987
MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice
1994
Night of Courage
1987
Atomic Dog
1998
No Greater Love
1995
Thin Ice
1981
Stranger in My Home
1997