Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Infobox actor
name = Jodi Lyn O'Keefe


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caption = Lyn O'Keefe at Los Angeles Fashion Week - Smashbox Studios, Culver City, CA March 9, 2008
birthdate = birth date and age|1978|10|10
birthplace = Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, US
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othername = Jodi O'Keefe
occupation = Actress, Model
yearsactive = 1995 — present
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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 Gretchen Morgan a.k.a. "Susan B. Anthony".

Biography

Early life

O'Keefe was born in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, the daughter of Noreen, a homemaker, and Jack O'Keefe, a director of labor relations for a pharmaceutical company. [cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/75/Jodi-Lyn-O-Keefe.html|title=Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Biography (1978-)|publisher=Filmreference|accessdate=2008-05-30] She has Irish, Czech, Austrian, Polish and Swedish ancestry. [cite web|url=http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=2633|title=Jodi Lyn O’Keefe|publisher=Maxim|accessdate=2008-07-30] 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 one of the tallest (at convert|5|ft|8|in|m|2|disp=s). Since leaving she has grown more and now stands at convert|5|ft|10|in|m|2.

Career

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 ' and later starred in such films as ', "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 every day.”

O'Keefe 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" as the Spider Demon, "The Evidence" and "Two and a Half Men". She also portrayed Tru Davies' high school friend in the episode "Reunion" in the short-lived, 2003 television series "Tru Calling".

Personal life

O'Keefe was in a relationship with actor John Cusack. They were both photographed on a California beach, although the photographers initially did not recognize O'Keefe. [cite news|title=Cusack's New Girl!|url=http://www.starswelove.com/scriptsphp/news.php?newsid=3260|publisher="Stars We Love"|accessdate=2008-05-30]

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