Career
Maroney is best known for her early roles on the television soap operas Ryan"s Hope and One Life to Live and the movies Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Night of the Comet. Maroney"s Daytime television stints were as Kimberly Harris Beaulac on the soap opera Ryan"s Hope (1979-1981, 1982-1983) and Tina Lord on One Life to Live (1984-1985). Her best known film roles were in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Cindy Carr, "Spirit Bunny", the 1984 science fiction movie Night of the Comet as Samantha Belmont.
As well as cult films The Zero Boys (1985) as Jamie, and Chopping Mall (1986) as Alison.
Later television credits are Face Down playing a schitzophrenic femme fatale opposite Joe Mantegna, and television envangelist on Home Box Office"s True Blood. Appearances
Maroney was featured on the cover of the October 27, 1980 issue of People (alongside fellow soap opera actresses Genie Francis and Kristen Vigard) and interviewed in the related story about the "teen temptresses" of daytime television
An interview with Maroney was featured in Jewel Shepard"s Invasion of the B-Girls, a non-fiction book composed of interviews with popular scream queens. She appeared on the Joan Rivers Show in the 1990s in a cheerleading uniform.
The segment was about B-movie starlets.
Joan Rivers had Kelli scream for her and then tried screaming herself. She has made guest appearances on television shows, among them Family Feud, Simon & Simon, Murder, She Wrote, Federal Bureau of Investigation: The Untold Stories, and Chicago Hope.
