Kali Reis Biography
Kali Reis a native of Rhode Island, is an American professional boxer and actress. She is best known as a former World Champion in two weight classes. In 2016, she was the WBC female middleweight. She also held the WBA, WBO, and IBO female light welterweight titles from 2020 to 2022.
In 2018, her opponent for the undisputed female welterweight belt was Cecilia Braekhus. Reis debuted as an actress in the American thriller Catch the Fair One in 2021. At the 37th Independent Spirit Awards, Reis was nominated for Best Female Lead for her portrayal of a boxer trying to save her sister who went missing.
Kali Reis Age
Kali was born on August 24, 1986, in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. She is 37 years old as of 2023.
Kali Reis Height
Reis stands at an average height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 Meters). She has an athletic body. Her hair is black and paired well with her brown eyes.
Kali Reis Family
Reis was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. She was raised by a single mother in a three-bedroom house. She has four siblings. Kali identifies as a Native American specifically Cherokee, Nipmuc, and Seaconke Wampanoag ancestry. She also claims Cape Verdean ancestry. Reis has identified her mother as “the medicine woman of our Seaconke Wampanoag tribe.” Growing up, Reis was an athletic kid.
She participated in her school’s bands/marching bands and color guard, as well as high school volleyball. She started playing basketball and softball in her junior year. At 14, she started practicing boxing at Manfredo’s Gym in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She studied criminology and learned how to repair motorcycles at MTTI.
Kali Reis Husband
Kali is happily married to her husband Brian Cohen. He is a Philadelphia-based trainer and manager. He has been training Kali since they got married.
Kali Reis Boxing Career
At the age of 14, she began boxing at Pawtucket, Rhode Island’s Manfredo’s Gym under the coaching of her mother’s friend. She will continue to train at Peter Manfredo Sr.’s gym after college to further her boxing career. Before pursuing professional boxing, she won the 2006 New England 154 Championship, the 2007 NYC Golden Gloves, and the 2007 Rocky Marciano Championship.
Reis had to sit out the rest of the boxing season in 2012 due to a terrible motorcycle accident. But she came back in 2013 and competed in November of that year for the WIBA title. Reis defeated Teresa Perozzi to win the IBA title on November 12, 2014, in Bermuda. kali is a trainer as well as a youth boxing instructor. Reis defeated Maricela Cornejo in April 2016 in New Zealand to win the vacant WBC World Middleweight title, marking her first significant world title victory.
Kali Reis True Detective
Kali is an active supporter and activist for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) movement. It was because of her involvement that she landed the role of Kaylee in the 2021 film Catch The Fair One. In the film, she plays a professional boxer who rescues her missing sister.
This role earned her a nomination for Best Female Lead at the 37th Independent Spirit Awards. She later appeared in Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s film Black Flies. In 2022, Kali was announced to be a co-lead in the fourth season of HBO’s anthology crime series True Detective: Night Country. She stars alongside Jodie Foster.
Kali Reis Net Worth
Reis has an estimated net worth in the range of $1 million – $5 million.
