Reed was born in Santa Clara, California, and by age five was performing in school plays and local dance recitals. By age 10, she was doing commercials and local catalog modeling. When her family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, she attended the Youth Performing Arts School and then went on to graduate from UCLA's School of Theatre, Film and Television.
Career
In addition to appearances as "Herself" and/or on behalf of organizations she works with, the list of Reed's credits includes producer, writer, director, and stunt person. She has appeared in movies, including starring roles in Red Shoe Diaries and The Price Of Desire, and on network television, on shows such as ER, NYPD Blue and The War at Home. She was a reporter and producer on Playboy TV's series Sexcetera, produced the second season of the Naked Happy Girls series and was both a writer and supervising producer on Playboy's hit travel/reality show 69 Sexy Things 2 Do Before You Die. Reed has worked as the backstage host for the Daytime Emmy Awards and a reporter for the Hollywood Christmas Parade. She was featured on BravoInterior Therapy with Jeff Lewis with her husband Robert Lorsch. She is president of The RHL Group, an event-production, publication and entertainment company founded by Robert Lorsch, producing charity events, feature films and television programming. In December 2012, RHL published Reed's Score: How to Win the Girl of Your Dreams. She has done SCORE book signing events in the US and in the UK in partnership with Hard Rock Cafe. Reed joined the cast of the Emmy nominated The Bay in 2014 and its producing team soon thereafter. The drama series won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series - New Approaches in 2015 and Reed herself took home an Emmy as a producer on the show in 2016. and again in 2017. In 2018, she received her first acting Emmy nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series for her role of "Jo Connors" on The Bay. She was nominated for Best Actress for her portrayal of "Morgan" in the feature Acts of Desperation, and received a Lifetime Achievement award for her body of work in independent film at the 2019 New Vision International Film Festival. She is a global brand ambassador for Donore Cosmetics, which launched Kira's Organic CBD Bronzing Cream in December 2018. Reed's website, KiraReedLorsch.com, states that she has served as an entertainment reporter for Associated Television International. Reed's appearances in erotica included posing for Playboy Magazine in December 1996, in a group pictorial of women from the television series , and appearing in direct-to-video movies like Secrets of a Chambermaid. In The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, Linda Ruth Williams cited Reed and Delia Sheppard as examples of actresses who worked "...in B-scale erotic thrillers at the fringes of Hollywood, the obvious trajectory for a strip-circuit veteran " The book also reproduces a quote from an article at Playboy.com, with Williams again making specific reference to Reed. "Video may have killed the radio star, but it proved a real boon to Playmates in the Eighties, who played a not insignificant role in that decade's video revolution" Reed also worked in adult entertainment with her first husband, Dan Anderson. They took part in Juli Ashton's Essentially Fresh; which was subsequently featured in Ashton's Wicked Pictures production Basically Becca. The couple marketed photos, home movies and live performances through an adult website called MarriedCouple.com. In 2001, Adult Industry News reported that the couple intended for their website material to be available exclusively to MarriedCouple.com members while they continued performing "...in a variety of more softcore and even mainstream projects for the rest of the public."
Personal life
Reed's marriage to Anderson lasted five years. She then married Robert Lorsch. Kira Reed Lorsch served as President of the mental health awareness organization The Thalians supporting programs for the wounded military men and women and their families of UCLAOperation Mend. She also supports Shelter Hope Pet Shop, a Thousand Oaksanimal rescue group that puts dogs that might otherwise face euthanasia up for adoption instead. She appears as Ms. June in Shelter Hope's 2015 fundraising calendar. Kira serves on the Board of Trustees of California Science Center home of the Robert H. Lorsch Family Pavilion. Ms. Lorsch is also a member of The Cedars-Sinai Board Of Governors. She was profiled in Angeleno Magazine's "Dynamic Women of Los Angeles" 2018 and in "Icons Of Beverly Hills" in Modern Luxury Beverly Hills' Fall/Winter 2018-2019 issue. She was the inaugural recipient of the Icon Award for Women In Philanthropy presented at the 4th Annual Roger Neal Oscar Viewing Dinner, Icon Awards and Party.
