Kerry Noonan

Kerry Noonan (born January 25, 1960) is a professor at Champlain College and a former ingenue actor. She is best known for appearing in the role of Paula in . Her only starring role was in the episode "A Message From Charity" of the television series "The New Twilight Zone". She also appeared in episodes of "Taxi", "The Facts of Life", "Family Ties", "St. Elsewhere", and "Murder, She Wrote".

Noonan received a bachelors degree in theater arts from UCLA and returned there after her acting career to pursue MA and Ph.D. degrees in folklore and mythology. Her doctoral dissertation (2002) was titled "Tongues of Fire: Catholic Charismatic Women Negotiating Gender and Power." [http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=764692351&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=5482&RQT=309&VName=PQD] She also taught at UCLA while a graduate student and served as a lecturer there through the 2007-08 school year. In the 2000s, she taught in the anthropology department at California State University at Northridge, where she earned ratings on RateMyProfessors.com of 3.4/5.0 for easiness, 4.1/5.0 for helpfulness, and 4.0/5.0 for clarity, for an overall rating of 4.0/5.0.

Noonan has also played guitar and sung with an Irish folk band, The Descendants. [http://www.fridaythe13thfilms.com/saga/part6/kerrynoonan.html] She is married to Stephen Wehmeyer, formerly of the noted Irish band Gaelic Storm.

Noonan is a Dianic Wiccan ordained by the Temple of Diana, which is no small irony in light of her role on "The Twilight Zone" being a teenage girl falsely accused of witchcraft in 17th century Massachusetts.