37 Facts About KaDee Strickland

Katherine Dee Strickland was born on December 14,1975 and is an American actress.

KaDee Strickland studied acting in Philadelphia and New York City, where she obtained mostly small roles in film, television, and stage projects, among them The Sixth Sense.

KaDee Strickland was then referred to as "the pride of Patterson" and the horror genre's "newest scream queen", though her performances in both films received mixed critical reviews.

KaDee Strickland was added to the cast of Private Practice.

KaDee Strickland has spoken against the emphasis placed on beauty in the Los Angeles acting community, in which she says her Southern US background has helped to distinguish herself from other blonde actresses.

Katherine Dee KaDee Strickland was born in Blackshear, Georgia, on December 14,1975, to Susan, a nurse, and Dee KaDee Strickland, a high school football coach, principal, and superintendent.

KaDee Strickland's nickname comes from her parents combining the "K" in her first name with her father's name to make "KaDee".

KaDee Strickland was raised in Patterson, Georgia, which she referred to as a "one-stoplight town", and she had a job picking tobacco on a local farm for eight years.

KaDee Strickland instead applied to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

KaDee Strickland took a part-time job as a waitress at a local restaurant and interned at a casting agency, where one of her tasks was to read lines at auditions for small roles in local film and television projects; the job landed Strickland her first film role.

When staying in Philadelphia, KaDee Strickland had opportunities to take part in other films in production in and around the city.

KaDee Strickland was cast in the crime drama Diamond Men with Robert Forster and Donnie Wahlberg; it opened to sparkling reviews, with Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times declaring it "a fantastic film, with a good cast".

Concurrent to her film work, KaDee Strickland acquired stage experience in productions such as A Requiem for Things Past in mid-1999, and John Patrick Shanley's Women of Manhattan.

In 2003, KaDee Strickland was cast opposite Eddie Cibrian in the pilot episode for an uncommissioned small screen serial adaptation of John Grisham's novel The Street Lawyer.

The film was greeted with lukewarm reviews and dismal ticket sales, though KaDee Strickland later referred to it as her "big break".

KaDee Strickland played the girlfriend of Keaton's character's ex-husband, a relationship involving age disparity that raised the eyebrows of Keaton and her daughter.

KaDee Strickland cast her opposite Johnny Messner and Morris Chestnut in the jungle-set horror film Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, the sequel to Anaconda.

KaDee Strickland played an accomplished research scientist who travels to Borneo as part of an expedition team searching for a species of plant rumored to have life-extending properties.

In Japanese director Takashi Shimizu's US remake of his film Ju-on: The Grudge, KaDee Strickland played a Tokyo-based American businesswoman whose relatives emigrate from the US KaDee Strickland received the role through a casting session with producer Sam Raimi, who picked her based on her work in footage for the then-unreleased Anacondas, and her willingness to work away from home for extended periods.

In late 2004, KaDee Strickland embarked on what she called "the craziest job I've ever had": a role in the Farrelly brothers film Fever Pitch, a baseball-themed romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon and based on the Nick Hornby book.

KaDee Strickland said it was "a blast" to play "such a maniac", particularly after playing emotionally traumatised characters in Anacondas and The Grudge.

KaDee Strickland appeared as a lawyer and love interest in the film American Gangster, which stars Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington in 2007.

Since Private Practice ended its run in 2013, KaDee Strickland had starring roles in the 2019 film Grand Isle and The Time Capsule in 2022.

In early 2005, KaDee Strickland was cast in the pilot episode for the fact-based ABC television series Laws of Chance.

KaDee Strickland was cast in the independently financed 1950s-set film Walker Payne as laid-off stripminer Jason Patric's love interest; in a review of the film at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, Variety wrote that KaDee Strickland was "elegant".

In 2015, KaDee Strickland was a main cast member in the first season of the mystery anthology television series Secrets and Lies.

KaDee Strickland will reunite onscreen with her Private Practice costars Griffin Gluck and Paul Adelstein, who played her son and husband, respectively.

In 1996, KaDee Strickland appeared briefly in the music video for Oasis's "Don't Look Back In Anger".

In 2009, KaDee Strickland appeared in the music video for Rascal Flatts's "Here Comes Goodbye".

KaDee Strickland cites her work ethic and her "active imagination" as sources of inspiration when she is required to convey certain emotions, particularly negative ones.

KaDee Strickland said she does not practise method acting, but that actors can bring to a role elements that are, in her words, "an extension of [their] life experience".

KaDee Strickland said she believed she was "here" to act, and that she could not live without it: "It's my joy, it's what I love, and there's no feeling like being able to do what you love in life, and really fully doing it", she said.

KaDee Strickland says she has never had to rely on her appearance or felt pressured to be beautiful.

KaDee Strickland is experienced in stage combat and has said she "like[s] to do physical stuff".

KaDee Strickland met fellow actor Jason Behr on the set of The Grudge in 2004.

KaDee Strickland said her experience planning the wedding aided her preparation for her role in The Wedding Bells.

In 2004, before the release of Anacondas, KaDee Strickland hosted the art debut of fellow actress Heidi Jayne Netzley at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, California.