Jody Thompson | |
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Born |
Jody Rae Thompson 13 August 1976 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada |
Other names | Jody Rae Marchfelder |
Occupation |
Actress Producer Director Screenwriter Editor Production Designer Anchor Moderator |
Years active | 1996–present |
Jody Rae Thompson is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and fillmmaker working in film and television.
Thompson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to mother Grace Diane, and father, Ray Thompson, the lead singer of Canadian garage rock band The Wiggy Symphony. Her ancestry is Inuit, Irish and Danish. Thompson is married to Canadian filmmaker Bruce Marchfelder, who is also the Creative Director of UBC Studios at the University of British Columbia. The couple regularly work as a Producing/Directing team with several projects aired on CBC or Telus Optik.
She is widely known for her regularly recurring character Devon Moore on the USA network’s television series The 4400, but is also recognized as the warrior queen Azura in the television series Flash Gordon and in other recurring television roles including Blade: The Series, Terminal City, and Cold Squad and television appearances, including roles on Freedom, Fringe, Andromeda, Stargate, Smallville and Supernatural.
She has acted in leading and starring roles in feature films and MOW’s like Perfect Little Angels, Fear of Flying, also Mission to Mars, Shanghai Noon, 2012 among others. She has co-starred with Eric McCormack in X-Files producer Bob Goodwin's independent film Alien Trespass and played David Arquette's wife in the made-for-television movie, Happy Face Killer.