About Mink Kelly

Minka Kelly grew up in Albuquerque and graduated from Valley High School in 1998. Kelly has appeared in cult favorite series, “Friday Night Lights.” She is back with “Ransom Canyon,” which marked her first time filming in the town she grew up in.

Kelly recently did interviews on TV shows spotlighting “Ransom Canyon” and Albuquerque.

“(It was) quite beautiful, actually. It was a really surreal and sort of special way to put a sort of a bow on that whole book experience. My entire career, I didn’t have to shoot in Albuquerque, and then I released this book that sort of makes peace with that whole experience, and then suddenly I’m going to live there for six months shooting a new show. I mean, I guess it just takes time, right, like, time away from the thing, to take, sort of, like, alleviate the power of it. I had gone back a couple of times with a best friend of mine who’s also from Albuquerque, yeah, so she sort of held my hand, sort of when I before I wrote the book, I wanted to go back and see these places, and that was when it was super emotional to go back, which is why I was like, okay, so I was like, I’m gonna live in Santa Fe, yeah, far enough away. … So much art, yeah. Oh, the food, there’s nothing like it. The sunsets.” — Minka Kelly on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” talking about her book “Tell Me Everything” and her time living in Santa Fe while filming “Ransom Canyon.”