Kim Darby

Personal context

Summary

Kim Darby is an American actor best known for playing Mattie Ross in True Grit and for television roles including Rich Man, Poor Man. Her work ranged from Westerns and counterculture films to television dramas and thrillers. She criticized being repeatedly cast as a passive female victim and said she wanted women on screen to be portrayed as people; this was commentary on her acting roles rather than a record of organized advocacy. No public statements on identity politics, DEI, or activism are on record.