Take the BuddyTV Personality Quiz: Which Prison Break Character Are You? Jodi Lyn O’Keefe is a model and actress who was born on October 10, 1978 in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey. O’Keefe was raised in a family of mixed Austrian, Czech, Polish, Irish, and Swedish descent. She is the youngest of three sisters, and describes herself as being a dork when she was younger, especially with her bowl haircut back then. O’Keefe appears as one of the members of the cast in the Fox network’s Emmy Award-nominated series Prison Break. Prior to her role on Prison Break, she was most well-known for playing the role of Cassidy Bridges, the teenage daughter of the titular protagonist in Nash Bridges played by Don Johnson.
In the middle of her junior year in high school, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe left to star in Another World. The soap opera cast her as Marguerite “Maggie” Cory before she landed her Nash Bridges role. Because she became a success in Hollywood, she and her mother decided to move and have her studies completed by mail. O’Keefe’s big screen debut came in 1998’s Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. Despite the bad critical reception, the actress later found roles in more movies. She was in The Crow: Salvation, Whatever It Takes and Devil in the Flesh 2. However, it was her portrayal of the conceited but popular high school girl in She’s All That which catapulted her to the spotlight.
She appeared on both Nash Bridges movies until the series ended in 2001, and has also been cast as a vampire in Out For Blood and Venice Underground. Her career in television also didn’t falter, as she was seen in episodes of Boston Legal, Charmed, Two and a Half Men, Criminal Minds and CSI: NY. In 2007, she joined the cast of the Fox drama Prison Break, playing the ruthless and impatient operative Gretchen, formerly known as Susan B. Anthony. Some of O’Keefe’s other projects include a short titled American Identity, as well as an appearance on the 3 Doors Down video for “Let Me Go.”
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