Kali Reis (born August 24, 1986) is an American professional boxer and actress. She is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBC female middleweight title in 2016 and the WBA, WBO, and IBO female light welterweight titles between 2020 and 2022. She also challenged Cecilia Brækhus for the undisputed female welterweight title in 2018. In 2021, Reis made her acting debut as the star of the American thriller film Catch the Fair One. For her performance as a boxer endeavouring to rescue her missing sister, she was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. She has since starred in the mystery series True Detective: Night Country (2024), for which she received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Critics' Choice Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kali Reis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 24, 1986 (40)
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Actor and writer
- 6 on MovieCove · 8 credits in all
What are Kali Reis' films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Survival and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 4
Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 2
Grounded 3 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 3 · Intense 2
Steady 2 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 2
Resolved 3 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
- Heroas Kaylee in Catch the Fair One (2021)
- Allyas Mali in Rebuilding (2025)
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet3
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Kali Reis' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 5 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Kali Reis' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
8 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page; 3 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
12 12 12 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Resident Evil(2026)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Mercy(2026)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Rebuilding(2025)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Asphalt City(2023)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
Catch the Fair One(2021)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
True Detective(2014)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all showsWind River: Rising (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 93rd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 8 titles, 6 of them dated from 2014 to 2026.
Film career
Top draw in 1 MovieCove title.
- 2014Screen debut· True Detective
- 2022First film· Catch the Fair One
- 2022First top-billed film· Catch the Fair One
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.
How do Kali Reis' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 58th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 66th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th2
Shape of the crowd
None of their 6 titles divides audiences: 2 are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the acting 74/100 in their films, across 5 reviewed titles; fans 84, detractors 46. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Kali Reis' work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Kali Reis work with?
People who share at least 2 of Kali Reis' MovieCove titles; Jamie Buckner shares the most, 2.
- Jamie BucknerShared titles: Asphalt City (2023), Catch the Fair One (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Jamie Buckner