Valerie Mahaffey

Valerie Mahaffey is an American filmmaker, actress, producer, director, and writer.

She is the mother of Alice Ziolkoski, who is also an actor. And the wife of filmmaker, Joseph Kell.

Biography
Mahaffey was born in Sumatra, Indonesia, to a Canadian mother and a Texan father who met in New Brunswick, Canada. When Mahaffey was 16, the family moved to Houston, Texas, where she graduated from Austin High School. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975 and later made her Broadway debut in musical Rex.