Kristin Bauer

Biography

Kristin grew up in Wisconsin playing sports, riding horses, and shooting guns. Her father was an avid horseman and gun collector and her mother a housewife involved in charities. Kristin moved to Los Angeles and began acting in 1994 after studying fine arts in St. Louis, Boston and New York. She still studies drawing and painting, and does commissioned portraits in between shooting and working to better the environment. Bauer lives in L.A. with her many rescued animals and her South African husband, musician Abri Van Straten, of the band, "The Lemmings".

Known For

Nocturnal Animals

as Samantha Van Helsing

50 First Dates

as Female Firefighter

Two and a Half Men

as Laura

Bones

as Janelle Stinson

Once Upon a Time

as Maleficent

Seinfeld

as Gillian

Desperate Housewives

as Veronica

True Blood

as Pam Ravenscroft

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Kenli Johnson

Star Trek: Enterprise

as Lt. Laneth