{"id":102846,"date":"2026-01-17T00:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102846\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:31:19","slug":"ex-nickelodeon-child-star-kianna-underwood-idd-as-woman-killed-dragged-down-block-in-nyc-hit-and-run-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102846\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Nickelodeon child star Kianna Underwood ID’d as woman killed, dragged down block in NYC hit-and-run: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman killed by a hit-and-run driver who dragged her down a Brooklyn block Friday morning<\/a> has been identified as former Nickelodeon child star Kianna Underwood, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Underwood, 33 \u2013 who appeared on the final season of the popular sketch comedy show \u201cAll That\u201d in 2005 \u2013 was crossing at the intersection of Watkins Street and Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville when she was struck around 6:50 a.m. by a black Ford SUV, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Footage obtained by The Post shows the car \u2013 which cops say was heading west on Pitkin Avenue \u2013 traveling for about a block before Underwood\u2019s body tumbles out from underneath it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kianna Underwood, 33 \u2013 who appeared on the final season of \u201cAll That\u201d in 2005 \u2013 was killed in an early Friday hit-and-run in Brownsville, sources said. Nickelodeon<\/p>\n

Underwood (right) appeared alongside big names including Keenan Thompson (second from left).<\/p>\n

The driver continues down the block while the pedestrian lies motionless in the roadway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her body was discovered with severe trauma at the intersection of Osborn Street and Pitkin Avenue, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to her role in \u201cAll That\u201d \u2013 which starred Amanda Bynes, Nick Cannon and Kenan Thompson \u2013 Underwood played Fuschia Glover, the cousin of the main character in Nickelodeon\u2019s \u201cLittle Bill\u201d series, which ran from 1999 to 2004, according to her IMDB page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Underwood\u2019s acting career also included roles in Nickelodeon\u2019s \u201cLittle Bill,\u201d as well as films \u201cThe 24 Hour Woman\u201d and \u201cDeath of a Dynasty.\u201d TeeNick<\/p>\n

Underwood, seen here with Frances Fisher, also played little Inez during the first national tour of \u201cHairspray.\u201d FilmMagic<\/p>\n

She also played the character Tanessha Labelle in the 1999 comedy film \u201cThe 24 Hour Woman\u201d that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and had a limited run in theaters.<\/p>\n

Underwood also had a minor role in \u201cDeath of a Dynasty,\u201d a satirical 2003 film about the hip-hop industry starring Kevin Hart.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also spent a year as a stage performer, playing little Inez during the first national tour of \u201cHairspray,\u201d the IMDB profile said. <\/p>\n

Footage shows that Underwood was apparently dragged by a vehicle heading west on Pitkin Avenue. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

No arrests had been made in the deadly hit-and-run by Friday afternoon. Paul Martinka<\/p>\n

Born in the Big Apple, she later moved to Los Angeles, according to another online bio.<\/a><\/p>\n

In Friday\u2019s crash, investigators believe Underwood had left a bodega and crossed against the light \u2013 and the motorist may have been unaware of a pedestrian in their path, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No arrests had been made in the deadly hit-and-run by Friday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman killed by a hit-and-run driver who dragged her down a Brooklyn block Friday morning has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,6616,47027,473,57,9,11,10,35545,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-102846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brownsville","10":"tag-child-stars","11":"tag-hit-and-run","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-nickelodeon","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}