Career
Kiff is best known for her roles in the sitcoms Love, Sidney and The New Leave lieutenant to Beaver. Kaleena is correctly pronounced Kuh Lee Na (kuh-LEE-nuh). Born in Santa Monica, California, Kiff began acting in the early 1980s.
In 1982, she appeared in the National Broadcasting Company comedy Love, Sidney as Patti Morgan opposite Tony Randall and Swoosie Kurtz.
In 1985, she landed the role of Kelly Cleaver, daughter of Wally (Tony Dow) and Mary Ellen Cleaver (Janice Kent) and later, older sister to Kevin Cleaver (Troy Davidson) in the 1985 revival series The New Leave lieutenant to Beaver. After the series ended in 1988, Kiff acted sporadically in mainly bit roles
In 2008, she produced the musical short East vuoto per amore (He Is Empty for Love), directed by Galen Fletcher, screened at the Red Rock Film Festival.
In 2008 she directed a short film titled Alice & Huck, starring Allison Mack from the television series Smallville. She co-created and directed the first five episodes of the online science-fiction/fantasy webseries Riese: Kingdom Falling which aired in 2009.
In 2014 Kiff produced the comedy thriller film The Legend of Barney Thomson (originally titled The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson.
