Kali Woodruff Carr is a research scientist and the wife of Australian-American actor and musician Jesse Spencer. She was born on July 15, 1990, in Neptune, Florida, USA. As of 2023, she is 33 years old.
Kali Woodruff Carr Education and Career
Kali Woodruff Carr has a strong academic background in psychology, music, and communication sciences. She earned two bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Music Performance from the University of Florida, a master’s degree in Communication Sciences, and a doctoral degree in Communication Science and Disorders from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is currently working as a research specialist at the Infant and Child Development Center at Northwestern University, where she studies how children use temporal rhythmic cues to make sense of speech, how they learn to incorporate acoustic variability in speech, and how they learn to identify the sounds for them and use those sounds for thinking and reasoning.
Kali Woodruff Carr and Jesse Spencer Relationship
Kali Woodruff Carr met her future husband Jesse Spencer at a music festival in Chicago in 2014. They started dating the same year and got engaged in 2019, when Jesse proposed to her during a week-long hike in the Peruvian Andes. They tied the knot on June 27, 2020, in a small and intimate ceremony in Kali’s hometown of Neptune Beach, Florida. They chose the date to honor Kali’s grandparents, who also got married on that day 40 years ago. Jesse described Kali as his “port in every storm” and said they were excited to move on to the next phase of their lives.
Kali Woodruff Carr and Jesse Spencer Baby
Kali Woodruff Carr and Jesse Spencer welcomed their first child, a baby boy, in April 2022. The couple has not revealed the name or the picture of their son yet. Jesse left the hit show Chicago Fire a year after marrying Kali to take care of the family. He said it was a tough decision to make, but he had other things he wanted to do in the future, and he needed to take care of his family, as 18 years was a long time.