Actress, comedian and playwright Kim Coles is co-host of “In the Loop with iVillage,” a live interactive daytime program focusing on relevant and entertaining topics for today's modern woman. She co-hosts alongside “Apprentice” winner and entrepreneur Bill Rancic and television personality Ereka Vetrini.

Coles has appeared on numerous hit television programs including “Frasier,” “Six Feet Under,” “In Living Color” and “Living Single.” She has also served as a co-host for several morning programs, including “Fox After Breakfast” and Lifetime’s lifestyle magazine “New Attitudes.” She is also known to reality audiences, having appeared on “The Mole,” VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club” and “Coming to the Stage,” BET’s search for “the next superstar of funny.”

A well-known comedian, Coles performs on comedy club stages across the country and has also taken a turn on the runways in New York as a model, most recently appearing in the Ashley Stewart print campaign. She has also co-written and starred in her own play, “Homework,” a one-woman stage show about the lives of three best friends who progress from elementary school to womanhood.

In addition, Coles has written the book, “I’m Free But It Will Cost You: The Single Life According to Kim Coles,” which was published in 1997. Prior to her career in show business, she was named the runner-up in the Big Beautiful Women pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Coles has been nominated by the NAACP Image Awards four times—for Best Actress for “Living Single” and for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Frasier.”

 

Meet the other hosts: Ereka Vetrini and Bill Rancic


 


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