Jodi Thelen

{{short description|American actress (born 1962)}}

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| birth_place = St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA

| yearsactive = 1981–2017

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Jodi Thelen (born June 12, 1962) is an American actress.

Born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Thelen made her screen debut as Georgia Miles, "a willfully free-spirited girl, naive and narcissistic"[https://web.archive.org/web/20101015125842/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,925171,00.html Time, December 21, 1981] 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,[https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117902365.html Variety review] while The New York Times noted the "welcome comic bite" of her Malka portrayal.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6DB1038F931A25751C0A962958260 New York Times review]

Thelen's television credits include Duet, Grace Under Fire, Touched by an Angel, Joan of Arcadia and Twin Peaks.