Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe at Los Angeles Fashion Week- Smashbox Studios, Culver City on March 9, 2008
Nationality	American
Other names	Jodi O'Keefe
Occupation	Actress/Model
Years active	1995–present
Height	5 ft (152 cm) 10

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (born October 10, 1978) is an American actress and model, who at age 15 portrayed Cassidy Bridges on Nash Bridges. She is also known for her role on Prison Break as Gretchen Morgan a.k.a. "Susan B. Anthony".

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 Merck. She is of 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 one of the tallest at 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m), which is the height at which she now stands.

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 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later and later starred in such films as The Crow: Salvation, Whatever It Takes and Devil In The Flesh 2 aka Teacher's Pet starring [Jsu Garcia]. In 1999, she starred 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 her character, a high school prima donna, she 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", alongside Jesse Metcalfe of Desperate Housewives. She joined the cast of Prison Break in 2007.

She appeared in episodes of the television series' Charmed, The Evidence, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Dharma & Greg and Tru Calling. In 2009 she appeared in The Video Game Expansion of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising as Kelly Weaver.

On 14 August 2010 Jodi Lyn O'Keefe appeared as Kylie Burch in a Hallmark Original Movie Class. Jodi also appeared in the webisode "Soul Fire Rising" as Lilith Reborn for three episodes.

Television

Year	Series	Role	Episodes
1999	Happy Hour	Herself	1 episode
1995	Another World	Maggie Cory #4	1 episode
1996	Nash Bridges	Cassidy Bridges	76 episodes, 1996–2001
2002	Dharma & Greg	Simone	2 episodes
2002	George Lopez	Campbell	2 episodes
2003	The Pool at Maddy Breaker's	Maddy	1 episode
2004	Tru Calling	Candace Aimes	1 episode
2004	The Help	Becky Wiggins	1 episode
2004	Charmed	Spider Demon	1 episode
2004	Boston Legal	Nora Jacobs	3 episodes, 2004–2005
2004	Two and a Half Men	Gail / Isabella (2 different roles)	3 episodes, 2004–2010
2005	Eve	Rita's stepmother	1 episode
2006	The 12th Man	Lindsay	1 episode
2006	The Evidence	Officer Jackie Kazaris	5 episodes
2006	Criminal Minds	Agt. Amanda Gilroy	1 episode
2010	The Call	Jenna 'Kinky' Kincaid	1 episode
2007	CSI: NY	Melodee Constanza	1 episode
2007	Raines	Angelina Billings	1 episode
2007	Prison Break	Gretchen Morgan	32 episodes, 2007–2009
2009	The Big Bang Theory	Mikayla	1 episode
2010	Lost	Ava	1 episode
2010	Soul Fire Rising	Lilith Reborn	3 episodes

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1998	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later	Sarah Wainthrope
1999	She's All That	Taylor Vaughan
2000	The Crow: Salvation	Lauren Randall
2000	Whatever It Takes	Ashley Grant
2000	Teacher's Pet	Debbie Strong	aka Devil in the Flesh 2
2002	Falling in Love in Pongo Ponga	Shawnee
2003	Red Rover	Kylie Logan
2004	Out for Blood	Layla Simmons	aka Vampires: Out for Blood
2004	Mummy an' the Armadillo	Jackie
2005	Venice Underground	Tyler
2005	Three Wise Guys	Mary Ann Davidson
2007	American Identity	Lyndsey Simpson
2009	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Uprising	Kelly Weaver	VG
2009	Prison Break: The Final Break	Gretchen Morgan	V, Release 21 July 2009
2010	Hallmark Original Movie Class	Kylie Burch	Premiere 14 August 2010 Hallmark TV

External links

• Official Site
• Template:Tv.com person
• Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Online