Patsy Pease is an American actress. She is most known for her role as Kimberly Brady on the soap opera Days of Our Lives. Early life Pease was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts four year bachelor's program in theater arts. She was awarded the governor's scholarship for her junior and senior years. She is an accredited teacher for the American Film Institute and S.A.G. Conservatory, dance teacher and fitness consultant. Career Pease's first soap opera role was as waitress Cissie Mitchell Sentell on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, a role she played from 1978 until 1980. In 1984, Pease debuted as Kimberly Brady on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives. Her character was part of a popular supercouple in her love affair and eventual marriage to Shane Donovan (played by Charles Shaughnessy). Pease was on contract with Days Of Our Lives until 1992. In 1990 she took maternity leave, returning from late 1991 to December 1992 after her child was born. Pease has reprised the role in guest appearances multiple times since. In 1986, Pease won "Best Actress" in the Soap Opera Digest Awards, as well as the "Best Super Couple" award with Charles Shaughnessy. She was nominated again for "Best Actress" in 1988, instead winning "Best Super Couple" again the same year. In 2015, Pease joined the cast of the soap opera web series The Bay in the role of Lola Baker. In 2016, she was nominated for an Indie Series Award for Best Guest Actress in a Drama, and a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Digital Daytime Drama Series for the role. Personal life Pease attended the North Carolina Governor's School of Drama in 1973. Later she was accepted into the North Carolina School of the Arts BFA program in the theater arts. Working her way through her freshman year, she was mentored by Broadway jazz dancer Mollie Murray and taught summer classes. She also performed as a jazz dancer for NCSA. She won the Governor's Scholarship for outstanding performance in both her junior and senior years. She played "a mean 12 bar blues" piano at a Winston-Salem supper club during the summer vacation to pay for her one-way bus ticket to New York City after graduation. Pease checked hats and coats at the Copacabana in New York, waited tables, cleaned apartments