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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Profile |
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Birth Date: October 10, 1978
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Birth Place: Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, USA
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Birth Name: Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
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Height: 5'10"
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Biography |
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (born October 10, 1978) is an American
award-winning actress and model, who rose to fame at age 17
as Don Johnson's daughter, Cassidy Bridges on Nash Bridges.
Also known for her role on Prison Break as Susan B. Anthony.
O'Keefe was born in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey; the
daughter of Noreen (née Alexandria), a homemaker, and Jack
O'Keefe, a director of labor relations for a pharmaceutical
company. She has Irish, Czech, Austrian, Polish and Swedish
ancestry. When she was a child, the youngest of three
sisters, she had a bowl haircut and was self-described as a
"dork". Her older sister was a model and she decided that
she wanted to do the same. She did, and says the modelling
job brought her more confidence and more friends. She
attended a Catholic school and grew from being the shortest
in the class to the tallest (at 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m)).
Since leaving she has grown more and now stands at 5 feet 10
inches (1.78 m).
Midway through her junior year high school she left school
to star on the soap opera Another World, playing Marguerite
“Maggie” Cory. She then got a role on Nash Bridges, playing
Cassidy, the daughter of Don Johnson’s title character. She
and her mother moved to Hollywood, so Jodi completed her
schooling by mail.
She made her big screen debut in 1998 in Halloween H20: 20
Years Later and later starred in such films as The Crow:
Salvation, Whatever It Takes and Devil In The Flesh 2. She
hit the spotlight when she portrayed a conceited and popular
high school girl Taylor Vaughan in the teen flick, She's All
That (1999) alongside Freddie Prinze Jr and Rachael Leigh
Cook. When asked if it was hard to play such a character,
Jodi replied, “Everybody knew a Taylor Vaughan in high
school. Working in show business, you meet girls like that
everyday.”
Jodi kept on filming both movies and Nash Bridges until the
series ended in 2001. Later films have been Out For Blood
where she played a vampire named Layla Simmons and Venice
Underground. In 2005, she appeared for three episodes in the
first season of Boston Legal.
O'Keefe was also in 3 Doors Down's video "Let Me Go", 2005,
alongside Jesse Metcalfe of Desperate Housewives. She joined
the cast of Prison Break in 2007.
She also appeared in episodes of the television series
Charmed and Two and a Half Men.
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe has been having relationships with actor
John Cusack. They were both photographed playing on a
California beach, but snappers failed to recognize Cusack's
"She's All That" pal. |
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Other
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Dating former "Nash Bridges" (1996) co-star Jaime Gomez.
[1998]
Attended a co-ed Catholic school.
Likes to paint Tea Cups and give them away as gifts.
Listens to everything from Antonio Vivaldi to Nirvana.
Prefers kickboxing to stairmasters to keep in shape.
Studied tap and ballet.
Has filmed 2 movies at Torrance High School, She's All That
(1999) and Whatever It Takes (1999).
Has played patrol officers with the San Francisco Police on
both "Nash Bridges" (1996) and "The Evidence" (2006).
Has Irish, Czech, Austrian, Polish and Swedish ancestry.
The youngest of three sisters. |
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since June 8, 2008