---
name: "Kelly Cantley-Kashima"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kelly-cantley-kashima"
fi1m_id: "kelly-cantley-kashima"
imdb_id: "nm0134604"
tmdb_id: 1449071
wikidata_id: "Q118126238"
roles: ["Assistant director trainee","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:05:47.910744+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kelly Cantley-Kashima

## Identity

Kelly Cantley-Kashima

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kelly-cantley-kashima
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kelly-cantley-kashima
- **IMDb ID:** nm0134604
- **TMDB ID:** 1449071
- **Wikidata ID:** Q118126238
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134604/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1449071

Assistant director trainee and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director trainee, Director
- **Active:** 1991–2005
- **Also known as:** Kelly Cantley
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (1), 2000s 77 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118126238, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134604/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1449071

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kelly Cantley-Kashima is a director and first assistant director. She studied theatre at Boston University and worked as a theatrical stage manager before completing the Los Angeles DGA Training Program. She began her career as a second assistant director in Los Angeles and on location before advancing to first assistant director on numerous television series, pilots and features.

She directed one episode of the series *The Office* (2013, as Kelly Cantley) and served as first assistant director on 72 episodes of the show. She was part of the DGA Award-winning team for the episode 'The Dinner Party'. Other credits include first assistant director on *Hot Tub Time Machine 2* (2015) and *Ghosted* (2017), and co-producer on *The Hollars* (2016).

*Sources: imdb.com, independentartistgroup.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *Terminator 2: Judgment Day* (1991), Fi1m 88, Assistant Director Trainee — [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-2-judgment-day.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ghosted* (2017), series, First Assistant Director
- *The Hollars* (2016), Associate Producer
- *Hot Tub Time Machine 2* (2015), First Assistant Director
- *The Office* (2005), series, as Admitting Nurse · Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md)
- *Suicide Kings* (1997), Second Assistant Director, Second Unit First Assistant Director
- *Knights* (1993), Second Assistant Director
- *Terminator 2: Judgment Day* (1991), Assistant Director Trainee — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/terminator-2-judgment-day.md)

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