kadee strickland

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Katherine Dee "KaDee" Strickland was born in Blackshear, Georgia on December 14, 1977. She is the third and youngest child of Susan Strickland a nurse and nursing instructor, and Dee Strickland, a former high school football coach and superintendent. she was raised in Patterson, Georgia and had a job picking tobacco on a local farm for eight years.   During her childhood, she was well-known locally as a member of the Strickland family and for her extracurricular activities and achievements she was the Homecoming Queen in elementary, middle and high school, the student councill president and a cheerleader As a child, Strickland watched the Woody Allen film Annie Hall (1977) and recalled "wanting to be in that place, and being completely taken with the energy of those people. I wanted to be in it". However, She had never seriously considered a career in the performing arts until her participation in a one-act play performed by students of her high school: "... the minute I set foot on stage, that was it. Destiny took over. There were no other options. I felt like I fit my skin, I knew what I was here to do", Strickland said.

After graduating from high school, Strickland applied to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia because her parents told her that New York City was to big for her yet. During her studies there, She took a part-time waitressing job at a local restaurant. she also interned at a casting agency, and one of the tasks she was given was to read lines at auditions for people looking for small roles in local film and television projects, and joined the Screen Actors Guild. After graduating from University with a Fine Arts degree, she was schooled in New York City under the tutelage of Maggie Flanagan, an acting teacher who instructed her students to watch films with the sound turned off to gauge the quality and comprehensibility of a performance.

KaDee's career began with a brief appearance as a ghost in The Sixth Sense in 1999, a two-line part. The same year, She served as an extra in the independent film The Sterling Chase. Strickland was cast in a slightly larger role opposite Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted.

While staying in Philadelphia, Strickland was given opportunities to take part in other films in production in and around the city. Those phpluded Rel Dowdell's Train Ride, a date rape thriller filmed in 1998 but not commercially released until 2005 because of financing problems. She also appeared in the crime drama Diamond Men. After she moved to New York City, Strickland was cast in Adam Bhala Lough's filmmaking debut Bomb the System, which received unenthusiastic notices from critics and was not shown outside film festivals until 2005.

Strickland acquired stage experience in theatre productions such as A Requiem for Things Past in the summer of 1999, and John Patrick Shanley'sWomen of Manhattan. She also acted in an episode of the television show Law & Order: Criminal Intent in December 2002 and made nine guest appearances on All My Children. In 2003 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. In late 2003 Strickland moved to Los Angeles, California.

Strickland appeared in two romantic comedy films in 2003. Anything Else was written and directed by Woody Allen. The second, Something's Gotta Give. The following year She made brief appearances in the direct-to-cable independent film Knots and The Stepford Wives with Nicole Kidman playing a partygoer and a game show contestant, respectively.

Strickland's first lead role came from Something's Gotta Give. Impressed by her work, he cast the actress in the jungle-set horror film Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, the sequel to Anaconda (1997). Strickland played an accomplished research scientist who travels to Borneo as part of an expedition team searching for a species of plant that is rumoured to have life-extending properties.  Strickland is also an advocate of the arts. Before the release of Anacondas, She hosted the art debut of fellow actress Heidi Jayne Netzley at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, California.

Strickland's next project was another horror picture, The Grudge. In director Takashi Shimizu's remake of his own Japanese blockbuster Ju-on: The Grudge (2003), Strickland played an American businesswoman in Japan whose brother, sister-in-Law and mother emigrate from the United States. Strickland clphphed 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 of time. The Grudge was an instant box office hit and quickly became one of the year's most profitable films.

In the fall of 2004 Strickland embarked on what She described as "the craziest job I've ever had": a role in the Farrelly brothers film Fever Pitch. She received praise for her abilities as a comedic actress upon the film's 2005 release; critic Jamie Kelwick said that Strickland and her co-stars, Ione Skye and Marissa Jaret Winokur, gave "good performances" as the best friends of Lindsey.

In early 2005 Strickland was cast in the pilot episode for the fact-based television series Laws of Chance for ABC. It was based on the career of Kelly Siegler, an assistant district attorney based in Houston, Texas. Strickland, whose co-stars in the pilot phpluded Frances Fisher and Bruce McGill, said She was "really excited to have the opportunity to portray this phenomenal lady", but the series was dropped from development a few months later. Strickland's next film role is as laid-off stripminer Jason Patric's love interest in Walker Payne, an independently-financed drama set in the 1950s that completed filming in July 2005. In late 2005 Strickland joined the cast of The Flock, a crime drama starring Richard Gere, Claire Danes and singer Avril Lavigne about a federal agent who is assigned to track down a missing girl and a paroled sex offender.

In 2004 Strickland meet fellow actor/The Grudge co-Star Jason Behr in Japan. After that they started dating and got engaged in 2006. Jason and KaDee married on 10 November 2006 in Ojai, California.

In late 2006 She got a lead role in the new drama/comedy series The Wedding Bells. KaDee, Teri Polo and Sarah Jones will play three sister who run a family wedding-planning business. The first episode aired in ealry March 2007. The show got cancelled after a few episodes. After that She got a small role in the movie American Ganster a drama starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Also Strickland received the University of the Arts's Silver Star Alumni Award

In summer 2007 Shonda Rhimes, the creator of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy started a spin-off called Private Practice. The new show is centering on the life of neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery played by Kate Walsh. KaDee Strickland got one of the lead roles in the new drama series. She plays Dr. Charlotte King who is currently Chief of Staff at St. Ambrose Hospital in Santa Monica. she is the youngest physician to hold this position since the hospital's inception. Dr. King earned her M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine. The Oceanside Wellness Group works closely with Dr. King. Other cast members are Tim Daly, Taye Digs, Audra McDonald, Paul Adelstein, Amy Brenneman and Chris Lowell. The first season aired September 2007 - December 2007. The second season will air in fall 2008.

Her latest project is The Family That Preys which She started filming in April 2008.