Katherine Dee KaDee Strickland is an American actress known for her role as Charlotte King on the ABC drama Private Practice.
Strickland was born in Blackshear, Georgia to Susan Strickland, a nurse, and Dee Strickland, a high school football coach, principal and superintendent. KaDees birthname is Katherine Dee her parents combined the K in Katherine with her fathers name to make KaDee. She was raised in Patterson, Georgia, which she said is a onestoplight town, and she had a job picking tobacco on a local farm for eight years. When she was a child, Strickland watched the Woody Allen film Annie Hall and was, as she put it, wanting to be in that place, and being completely taken with the energy of those people. I wanted to be in it. During her childhood, she was well known locally as a member of the Strickland family and for her extracurricular activities and achievements . She never considered a career in the performing arts until her participation in a oneact 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 lik
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