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Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Lyn O'Keefe at Los Angeles Fashion Week - Smashbox Studios, Culver City, CA March 9, 2008
Born	October 10, 1978 (1978-10-10) (age 30) Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, US
Other name(s)	Jodi O'Keefe
Occupation	Actress, Model
Years active	1995 — present

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (born October 10, 1978) is an American actress and model, who at age 17 portrayed Cassidy Bridges on Nash Bridges. Also known for her role on Prison Break as Gretchen Morgan a.k.a. "Susan B. Anthony".

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Television 2.1 Film 3 References 4 External links

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 Merck.¹ She has Irish, Czech, Austrian, Polish and Swedish ancestry.² 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 metres), which is the height at which she now stands.³

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. 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 also appeared in episodes of the television series Charmed, The Evidence, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and Dharma & Greg. She also appeared in an episode of the short-lived 2003 television series Tru Calling. In 2009 she also appeared in Red Alert 3 Uprising as Kelly Weaver

Television

Year	Series	Role	Episodes
1999	"Happy Hour"	Herself	1 episode
1995	Another World (TV series)	Maggie Cory #4	unknown episodes
1996	Nash Bridges	Cassidy Bridges	76 episodes, 1996-2001
2002	Dharma & Greg	Simone	2 episodes
2002	George Lopez	Campbell	2 episodes
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)	2 episodes, 2004-2005
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
2009	The Big Bang Theory	Mikayla	1 episode
2007	Prison Break	Gretchen Morgan	32 episodes, 2007-2009

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 (film)	Ashley Grant
2000	"Teacher's Pet"	Debbie Strong	aka Devil in the Flesh 2
2002	"Falling in Love in Pongo Ponga"	Shawnee
2003	"The Pool at Maddy Breaker's"	unknown	TV
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

References

External links

• Jodi Lyn O'Keefe at the Internet Movie Database
• Jodi Lyn O'Keefe at TV.com
• The Official Original Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Fansite