Amanda Righetti

This is the 116th post in our Celebrity of the Day series.



Amanda Righetti was born in 1983 in Utah. She was raised in Las Vegas, but eventually moved to L.A. in order to pursue an acting career.

She got her first film role in 1995 as Charlie's Kid Sister in Love and Happiness. This was followed by the role of Little One in Kiss and Tell in 1996.

Following these roles her acting career dried up which led to her moving to L.A. In 2001 she made it back into acting with a minor role in an episode of C.S.I: Crime Scene Investigation.

The following year she played Samantha Goodman in Angel Blade. In 2003 she got her big break when she was cast in the pilot of No Place Like Home. The show never made it to TV but she did gain the attention of FOX executives. She then landed the role of Hailey Nichol, a regular guest character on the O.C.

In 2004 she was cast in a lead role in North Shore but the show was canceled after only one season.

This was followed by the role of Jenna Moretti in Reunion in 2005. The series suffered from low ratings and was canceled after only 9 episodes.

She continued to get small roles in movies and television playing Ariel in House on Haunted Hill and Isabel in Role Models.

She rose back into the spotlight in 2008 when she got a regular role on The Mentalist as Grace van Pelt. This was followed by the role of Whitney in Friday the 13th.

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