Haley Strode

Strode was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, and grew up in the nearby town of Stanley on her family's fourth generation farm. Her mother is a retired teacher, and her father is a farmer. She has two older brothers, Jason and Matthew.^{[citation needed]}

Strode graduated from Apollo High School in Owensboro, and went on to attend the University of Mississippi in Oxford, from which she graduated in 2007 with a BFA in Theatre Arts. While at college, Strode appeared in A Streetcar Named Desire as Stella, Noises Off! as Brooke, and The Importance of Being Earnest as Cecily.^[1]

Haley Strode's career in television began with a role on Comedy Central's Lewis Black's Root of All Evil.

Strode provided the voice of Jess' Mother in the independent film Jess + Moss, which was screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.^[2] The film won Best Feature at the Prague Fresh Film Festival, and Best Narrative at the Dallas International Film Festival. Strode continued 2012 with roles on television series including CSI:NY, Castle, and Whitney, along with the NBC pilot, The New Normal. In 2012, Strode was series regular in the Nick at Night series Wendell & Vinnie, starring opposite Jerry Trainor.^[3]

Later that year, she appeared in the Warner Bros. release Gangster Squad (2012), directed by Ruben Fleischer. She played the role of Marcia Keeler, alongside Giovanni Ribisi as Detective Conway Keeler. Not long after, Strode played the nemesis of Laura Bell Bundy's character in the film Watercolor Postcards.

She went on to portray the role of real-life NASA wife Jane Conrad on ABC's drama series The Astronaut Wives Club. She also stars, in flashbacks, as Rita Forrester, the mother of Ed Westwick's character, in ABC's crime drama series Wicked City.^[4] That same year she was a recurring character on CMT's Still the King.

Recently, she has stretched her wings in the production realm, co-producing a film documentary "Let Them Be Naked, about sustainability in fashion, and then directed the film "Sidetracked" in 2024, with many more plans to tell stories in front of, and behind the camera.