Amanda Righetti

Born on April 4, 1983, in St. George, Utah, Amanda is the youngest of the eight children of her parents. She has six sisters and one brother. She grew up in Nevada along with her siblings and began dancing when she was four years old.

Righetti married writer and director Jordan Alan, a man 16 years her senior, on April 29, 2006, in Oahu. They have a son together, Knox Addison Alan, who was born on January 10, 2013. She and Jordan co-own the production company Bliss Sinema.

Amanda Righetti started off in the entertainment industry as a child artist. Her first role was as Charlie's kid sister in the 1995 film ‘Love and Happiness’. The film gave her the opportunity to work with Academy Award winner Jodie Foster. Righetti worked with Alan for the first time in the 1997 drama ‘Kiss and Tell’, a film primarily made by improvisation. When she was 14 years old, she began her career as a professional model and within a year, she came to prominence through the International Cover Model Search.

After she turned 18, she relocated to Los Angles and was hired for her first TV appearance, in CBS’ police procedural drama ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ (2001). In the following year, she played small characters in one film, David Heavener's directorial venture ‘Angel Blade’ and one TV show, ‘Greg the Bunny’.

From 2003 to 2005, Righetti played Hailey Nichol, the free-spirited sister of Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan) in the series ‘The O.C.’ While she appeared in only 12 out of 92 episodes of the show, it helped her finally gain some traction in her career.

During her tenure on ‘The O.C.’, she was also cast as Tessa Lewis, a former swindler who rises to the position of Assistant Concierge by exploiting others, in the short-lived soap opera ‘North Shore’. This was the first TV series in which she was part of the main cast. She then appeared in ABC Family’s telefilm ‘Romy and Michele: In the Beginning’ (2005).

She was then cast in ‘Reunion,’ a short-lived drama series that was broadcast on Fox between September and December 2005. Righetti portrayed Jenna Moretti, a previously famous actress who comes back to New York in an attempt to return to normalcy. In 2007, after five-year hiatus, she reappeared on the big screen with ‘Pipeline’, which was also her debut as a producer. That year, she also starred in the direct-to-video horror film ‘Return to House on Haunted Hill’.