Kimberly Cullum (born 29 November 1981; age 43) is the actress who played Gia in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Thine Own Self". She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Cullum's costume from her appearance in this episode was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1](X)
Biography[]
Born as Kimberly Claire Cullum in Los Angeles, California, USA, she began acting professionally at the age of seven, when she appeared in the television movie The Revenge of Al Capone (1989, starring Keith Carradine). Since then, she has amassed of Young Artist Award nominations for her roles in The Sitter (1991, co-starring Brett Cullen and Eugene Roche), The Rapture (1991), and Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992, also featuring Dakin Matthews).
Of her eight Young Artist Award nominations, she has won two: her first was for her work in a three-episode arc on Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell and also guest-starring Parley Baer, Fran Bennett, and Meg Foster. She won her second Young Artist Award for her appearances on the sitcom Home Improvement, playing the daughter to Mark L. Taylor's character. Among her other credits are appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1993, starring James Avery), Empty Nest (in an episode with Robert Costanzo and Megan Gallagher), and VR.5 (with Louise Fletcher), the television movie Long Shadows (1994, with Matt Frewer), Monkey Trouble (1994, with Aaron Lustig and Christopher McDonald) and Maverick (1994, with Henry Darrow, Stephen Liska, William Marshall, and Bert Remsen).
In 1995, she and Don Stark were regulars on Bless This House, starring Cathy Moriarty. Cullum has not acted since her Young Artist Award-nominated appearance on Nothing's Sacred in 1998. Cullum later worked as assistant to director Michael Katleman on Reunion (2005) and Primeval (2007) and to producer Matt Zolmach on The Amazing Spider-Man (2012, produced by Stan Lee and music by James Horner) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014, written and produced by Stan Lee, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci).
Cullum is the sister of Kaitlin Cullum, who was a regular on the television series Grace Under Fire, on which Kimberly Cullum guest-starred twice and which also featured Paul Dooley.