Kali Reis is an American professional boxer and actress. She was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Reis is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA female light welterweight title since 2020; the WBO and IBO female light welterweight titles since 2021; and the WBC female middleweight title in 2016. She also challenged Cecilia Brækhus for the undisputed female welterweight title in 2018.
Kali Reis made her acting debut in the independent film "Catch the Fair One". She helped develop the story with director Josef Kubota Wladyka, and also received a special Jury Mention for Best Actress at the Tribeca Film Festival where the film won the Audience Award. She was then nominated for Best Female Lead at the Film Independent Spirit Awards. Reis recently wrapped principal photography opposite Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan in the film, "Black Flies", which Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is directing.
Reis is a motivational speaker and vocal supporter of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls movement, and teaches young Native women how to fight, both physically and vocally, against the targeting of Native youth.
