KaDee Strickland

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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