Jodi Thelen | |
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| Born | June 12, 1962 St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA |
| Years active | 1981–2017 |
Jodi Thelen (born June 12, 1962) is an American actress and mental health counselor.
Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Thelen made her screen debut as Georgia Miles, "a willfully free-spirited girl, naive and narcissistic" [1] in Four Friends in 1981.
Thelen appeared on Broadway in Brighton Beach Memoirs in 1983. Her off-Broadway credits include Springtime for Henry, Largo Desolato at The Public Theater, The Nice and the Nasty at Playwrights Horizons, The Chemistry of Change, and A Body of Water, in which she played the dual roles of Sandy and Malka. For the latter, Variety praised her "stunning transformation" between roles, [2] while The New York Times noted the "welcome comic bite" of her Malka portrayal. [3]
Thelen's television credits include Duet , Grace Under Fire , Touched by an Angel , Joan of Arcadia and Twin Peaks .
Later in life, Thelan became a mental health counselor in Seattle, Washington. [4]