Kris Rey

Kris Rey (44)

1980-11-11 |

Kris Rey (born Kristin Williams, November 11, 1980) is filmmaker and actress. Her works as a director include the short documentary Bathwater (2006), the Nerve.com documentary web series Boys and Girls and the feature films It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home (2009), Empire Builder (2012), Unexpected (2015) and I Used to Go Here (2020). She has also had small roles in a number of films, including First Man (2018). From 2007 to 2019 she was married to filmmaker Joe Swanberg. The two co-directed, co-produced and co-starred in the 2006-2009 Nerve.com web series Young American Bodies; she also had acting roles in a number of his films.

On Movies

  • First Man
  • Win It All
  • Joshy
  • Happy Christmas
  • The Sacrament
  • Marriage Material
  • Art History
  • Autoerotic
  • The Zone
  • Audrey the Trainwreck
  • It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home
  • Alexander the Last
  • Hannah Takes the Stairs
  • Kissing on the Mouth

Movies as Director

On Series

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