--- name: "KiKi Layne" canonical: "https://film.one/person/kiki-layne" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 December 1991" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T09:05:53.719000+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." --- # KiKi Layne Actor. Born 10 December 1991 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 December 1991, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - **Also known as:** Kiandra Layne, 琪琪·蘭恩 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiKi_Layne, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54869224, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8460487/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1884703 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*If Beale Street Could Talk*](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) (81) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on KiKi Layne > KiKi Layne makes a couple’s affection easy to believe in without making a display of it. The steadiness she brings to *If Beale Street Could Talk* gives us good reason to follow her beyond quiet drama. In the quiet exchanges of *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), KiKi Layne’s Tish Rivers seems at ease with Stephan James’s Fonny. They suggest the comfort of two people who know each other well. Layne gives Tish’s devotion a steadiness that makes it easy to believe, even when the film idealises the couple. We were moved by that familiarity, because it makes their separation after his false arrest feel like something happening to people we have come to know. Barry Jenkins does not always leave that work alone. The narration sometimes explains what the faces have already made clear, and the more formal dialogue is harder to accept as the couple’s own speech. The writing can ask us to admire the romance when Layne and James have already persuaded us to care about it. That makes the casting important: both actors keep the relationship credible through passages that might otherwise leave it looking too perfect. *If Beale Street Could Talk* was her feature debut, and it would have been easy to treat its quietness as a prescription for every part afterwards. Her next roles included Bessie Mears in Rashid Johnson’s *Native Son* (2019), another literary adaptation. Then Gina Prince-Bythewood’s *The Old Guard* (2020) cast her as Nile Freeman opposite Charlize Theron. She brings physical commitment to its fight sequences. We welcome that change of pace without needing to declare every departure from Tish an improvement. *Dandelion* (2024), Nicole Riegel’s music drama, gives her a singing lead and an executive producer credit, while *The Old Guard 2* (2025) returns her to Nile. We would rather see her attempt both than spend a career being asked to reproduce Tish. We would still send someone first to her work with Jenkins, who gives her and James space to establish a believable intimacy. The film can be too slow, and the narration requires patience. Stay for the quiet exchanges, where Layne makes the relationship worth caring about without another explanation. ## Biography KiKi Layne is an American actress. She was born Kiandra Layne on 10 December 1991 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She earned a BFA in acting from DePaul University in 2014. Layne made her feature film debut as Tish Rivers in Barry Jenkins’s *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018). Subsequent roles include *Native Son* (2019), *The Old Guard* (2020), *Coming 2 America* (2021), *Don’t Worry Darling* (2022) and *Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers* (2022). She is also credited as Kiandra Layne and 琪琪·蘭恩. *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), Fi1m 81, as Tish Rivers — [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) ## Complete filmography (16) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Killing Castro* (2026), Acting - *Fake Yourself a Merry Little Christmas* (2025), as Maya Montgomery - *The Old Guard 2* (2025), as Nile Freeman - *Dandelion* (2024), as Dandelion, Executive Producer - *Don't Worry Darling* (2022), as Margaret - *Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers* (2022), as Ellie Steckler - *Coming 2 America* (2021), as Meeka - *The Old Guard* (2020), as Nile Freeman - *The Staggering Girl* (2019), as Adut - *Captive State* (2019), as Carrie - *Native Son* (2019), as Bessie Mears - *If Beale Street Could Talk* (2018), as Tish Rivers — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/if-beale-street-could-talk.md) - *Chicago Med* (2015), series, as Emmie Miles - *Veracity* (2015), as Olivia - *Deadlocked*, Acting - *Vought Rising*, series, Acting ## Gallery - ![Ron Livingston Cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, 2026.](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-dae30083921d.jpg) Ron Livingston Cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, 2026. — Jorge Jaramillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-18.jpg/1280px-Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-18.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, ](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-b2362a313e8e.jpg) Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, — Jorge Jaramillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-22.jpg/1280px-Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-22.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, ](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-88208498813d.jpg) Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, — Jorge Jaramillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-20.jpg/1280px-Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-20.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Killing Castro - Tribeca 2026](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-06de7541d489.jpg) Killing Castro - Tribeca 2026 — Jorge Jaramillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-16.jpg/1280px-Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-16.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![KiKi Layne](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-3c40bad6f764.jpg) KiKi Layne — Image via TMDB - ![KiKi Layne](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-9724a0bb10bb.jpg) KiKi Layne — Image via TMDB - ![Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta, - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9,](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-d2215bec085c.jpg) Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta, - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, — Jorge Jaramillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-12.jpg/1280px-Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-12.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, ](https://film.one/media/person/690105/gallery-5c850c1d20b8.jpg) Kiki Layne, Xolo Maridueña, kendrick Sampson, Diego Boneta - cast and crew Q&A for Killing Castro at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, June 9, — Jorge Jaramillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-19.jpg/1280px-Killing_Castro_-_Tribeca_2026_-_by_%40JJxFile-19.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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