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Katherine Dee "KaDee" Strickland (born December 14 1977) is an American actress. After displaying interest in acting at a young age, Strickland now works predominantly in supporting parts in motion pictures, among them The Grudge
(2004) and Fever Pitch
(2005). Her experience in leading roles, however, has been limited. Strickland has been acknowledged as one of Hollywood's rising stars by some media sources, and she has cited Jessica Lange, Holly Hunter, and Jane Fonda as her influences.

Early life and education

Strickland was born in Blackshear, Georgia, and 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. 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". In late 2003 Strickland moved to Los Angeles, California, where she currently resides as of 2005.

Career

Early work

Strickland's career began with a brief appearance as a ghost in The Sixth Sense
in 1999, a two-line part that she had received after impressing writer and director M. Night Shyamalan whilst reading lines for those auditioning for the film. Of Shyamalan, Strickland said: "He is a lovely man, and one of the most focused I've been around... I still can't get over how tightly he ran his ship". That same year, she served as an extra in the unreleased independent film The Sterling Chase
. Strickland was also cast in a slightly larger role opposite Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie in James Mangold's drama Girl, Interrupted
.

While staying in Philadelphia, Strickland was given various opportunities to take part in a number of other films in production in and around the city. Those included Rel Dowdell's Train Ride
, a date rape thriller filmed in 1998 but not commercially released until 2005 due to financing problems. She also appeared 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". Some time after moving 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 of 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's Women 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 a proposed small screen serial adaptation of John Grisham's novel The Street Lawyer that was never commissioned.

Strickland appeared in two romantic comedy films in 2003. Anything Else
was written and directed by Woody Allen, and featured Strickland as the girlfriend of Jason Biggs (whom he snubs for Christina Ricci); the film was greeted with lukewarm reviews and dismal ticket sales. (Strickland nevertheless referred to the film as her "big break" in a 2005 interview.) The second, Something's Gotta Give
(starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton), was a major critical and commercial success, although Strickland's part in the film was brief. She played the notably young love interest of the Diane Keaton character's ex-husband (played by Paul Michael Glaser), a relationship that raised the eyebrows of both Keaton and her daughter (Amanda Peet). The following year she appeared briefly in the direct-to-cable independent film Knots
as a partygoer, and as a game show contestant in the poorly-received satirical comedy The Stepford Wives
with Nicole Kidman.

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