Background
Cloke was born in Van Nuys, California and attended California State University, Northridge.
Cloke was born in Van Nuys, California and attended California State University, Northridge.
She is best known for her work in Space: Above and Beyond, and has acted in several small parts of other television series as well as a role in Final Destination. Her first feature film role was the female lead in Megaville (1990), alongside Billy Zane. Kristen"s other credits include lead parts in Caged Fear with David Keith and A Participant of the Family.
She has also had featured roles in Stay Tuned, Mistress, and The Marrying Manitoba
Kristen"s previous television credits include a regular role on Winnetka Road as Maybeth, a divorced mother of three and secretary to Editor Begley Junior."s character. She also had a recurring role on the Columbia Broadcasting System/United States of America network show, Silk Stalkings, as Annie Overstreet, a former model and clothing designer.
Kristen"s guest appearances include The X-Files, One West Waikiki, Cheers, Mad About You, Dear John, Murder She Wrote, Quantum Leap and Doogie Howser, Doctor of Medicine, and most recently, in December, 1998, as Tamara Harrington on American Broadcasting Company"s Vengeance Unlimited (episode "Noir"). In 1995, Kristen"s big break came when she portrayed the tough and gritty Captain Shane Autumn Vansen on Space: Above and Beyond.
She would later describe the episode ("The Field Where I Died") as a love letter between herself and producer Glen Morgan (Space: Above and Beyond, The X-Files, Millennium), her then fiancé (now husband).
In 1997-1998, she had recurring role as Doctor Lara Means of the Millennium Group on FOX"s Millennium. On March 17, 2000, Kristen returned to the big screen as Valerie Lewton in the Glen Morgan scripted and James Wong directed film, Final Destination. In addition to her acting, she is the Artistic Director of The Alliance Repertory Company in Burbank, California, where she writes, produces and directs.
Cloke was named #9 of Sciences-Fi"s Sexy 50, by Femme Fatales magazine in 1997.
As a result of her work as Vansen, Kristen won a guest spot on The X-Files (FOX) as the troubled Melissa Ephesian, a schizophrenic wife of cult leader Vernon Ephesian and soulmate of Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Fox Mulder. In 1996, she won a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for her performance in the American Broadcasting Company Afterschool Special The Long Road Home, in which she played a young wife who has difficulty relating to her husband"s son.
