Hair stylist Kris Collins proves her impressive acting talent in TikToks

Abbotsford, Canada - 24-year-old Canadian hair stylist Kris Collins has been showing off her acting skills since she started making TikTok videos in lockdown. Over the course of just a year, her acting chops have been well-proven.

Kris Collins featured as her character Grandma Nona (l.) and as a 90s jock (r.).
Kris Collins featured as her character Grandma Nona (l.) and as a 90s jock (r.).  © Collage: TikTok/@KallMeKris & Instagram/@kallmekris_4

With an uncanny ability to slip in and out of character, and between dozens of accents, Kris Collins, who goes by @kallmekris, certainly didn't set out to work with Dr. Phil, let alone become the number one TikTok star in Canada.

When Covid lockdown hit Canada, Kris Collins had to close the doors of her at-home business as a hair stylist. Seeing the opportunity to seek new opportunities, she quickly turned to making funny videos to pass the time.

Now, the viral TikToker has become an absolute sensation. Kris Collins' acting has impressed so much, in fact, that fans are talking about her show-biz potential!

Kris Collins' TikTok career goes viral

Starting out like many users by lip-syncing to funny movie scenes, her vivid facial expressions and wide blue eyes drew fans quickly. Thinking that she had found fame with 1,000 followers, which quickly ballooned to 100,000, Collins mustered the courage to create her own content.

With half a dozen siblings, she had plenty of material to work with. Utilizing various dollar-store props and a variety of different camera angles, Collins manages to convincingly portray different members of a fictitious family – pets included – having family feuds, hitting the bar, and plotting world-domination. Her use of tiny plastic doll hands when acting the roles of children began a signature style that eventually translated into a line of merchandise.

To date, Collins has created and continually documented the lives of nearly thirty fictional characters. Most popular is tiny-handed four-year-old Riley, whose Frozen obsession seems to drive her mother to drink.

Kris Collins' hair stylist career is still going strong, despite her TikTok career

Kris Collins is best known for her tiny-handed character Riley.
Kris Collins is best known for her tiny-handed character Riley.  © Collage: Screenshot/Instagram/@kallmekris_4

Despite her new-found fame, Kris Collins has managed to keep up her hair styling career, with many asking what the "Kallmekris haircut name" is. In fact, her hair cutting skills have even made their way into her videos.

It's hardly surprising that a TikTok influencer with such acting talent, who's also a creative and skilled hair cutter, is so popular.

Will Kris Collins' acting career

Her acting range is indeed unbelievable. In one 60-second video, she goes from age four to eighty without skipping a beat. One moment we are watching Katrina, a former Russian spy, until she leaves the screen for Chad, a 27-year-old basement dwelling surfer dude, to walk in.

Collin's talent hasn't gone unnoticed. With nearly 27 million followers, the actor quickly hired an agent to handle the logistics of her new-found attention, as well as her sponsorships, which include Red Bull.

Immanently real, just as she is funny, her steady stream of "daily sub-par content" occasionally includes heartfelt moments in which an out-of-character Kris shares how she is coping with depression and anxiety.

Her honesty and relatability has endeared her to fans all the more, with boxes of fan mail, gifts, and hand-drawn renditions of her characters filling her car to the roof.

Cover photo: Collage: Instagram/@kallmekris_4 & TikTok/@KallMeKris

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