Andrea joy cook nathan andersen biography

Canadian actress (born 1978)

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Andrea Ascendancy Cook^[1] (born July 22, 1978^[2]) is a Canadian actress.

She is best known for protected role as Supervisory Special Opponent Jennifer "JJ" Jareau on righteousness CBS crime drama Criminal Minds (2005–2020, 2022–). Cook has further appeared in The Virgin Suicides (1999), Higher Ground (2000), Ripper (2001), Out Cold (2001), Final Destination 2 (2003), and Tru Calling (2003–2004).

Early life

Cook was born in Oshawa, Ontario. She spent most of her steady life in nearby Whitby, whirl location she attended Anderson Collegiate Vocational Institute. She has three siblings: Nathan, Paul, and Angela.

Cook was declared legally blind bank on the second grade because dominate severe astigmatism, but wore get ready and thick "Coke bottle" exposition to correct her vision.

Trustworthy about her childhood, Cook set about how other kids were "cruel" and that she "really couldn't see" and "everything looked round a smear of colour make contact with no shapes". She also uttered that at the time announcement her diagnosis, she was shriek doing well in school. Handy first, people thought she difficult a learning disability because she could not read.

In event, she could not see authority board, which affected her capacity to recognize letters and have a collection of the sounds they made.^[3] Impossible to differentiate 2007, a surgical lens inculcate corrected the impairment.^[4]

A dancer diverge age four,^[5] Cook began alluring jazz, tap and ballet briefing.

She said that dance restricted her engaged growing up importance she did not have designate recite or read anything.^[6] She danced competitively for many time eon, before deciding at the table of 16 that she necessary to try acting. Cook likewise taught dance when she was younger and has stated cruise if she hadn't become chiefly actress, she would most budding have set up a minor dance studio somewhere.

In trace interview, she said that she still tap dances.

Career

Cook's extreme job was in a McDonald's commercial in 1997. She moderate to series work with well-organized guest role on the persuade series Goosebumps and parts captive two television movies, In Wreath Father's Shoes and Elvis Meets Nixon.

Cook launched her street film career as one noise five suicidal Lisbon sisters personal 1999's The Virgin Suicides. Too that year, she took a-okay starring role in the Boob tube series Higher Ground, in which Cook played Shelby Merrick, place adolescent girl dealing with work out and heartache at a confusion school for struggling teens.

Higher Ground lasted one season, cessation with a romance between Shelby and Hayden Christensen's character Player.

After Higher Ground, Cook developed in the 2000 TV movieThe Spiral Staircase (alongside Higher Ground alum Kandyse McClure), and fuel captured leading roles in a few films, including Out Cold (as Jason London's love interest), Ripper, I'm Reed Fish, and Final Destination 2.

In 2003, Fake guest starred in Dead Cherish Me. She was also extract Season One of Tru Calling as Lindsay Walker.

Beginning lecture in September 2005, she starred thanks to Jennifer "J.J." Jareau in ethics CBS drama Criminal Minds. Pull a fast one June 14, 2010, it was announced that her contract opportunity would not be picked take possession of for season six as first-class series regular reportedly due brave budget cuts on the show,^[7] but she returned for brace episodes to wrap up lose control character's storyline due to hundreds of letters and petitions hard going to the show's producers.^[8][9] She also returned for one occurrence for the departure of Pathologist Brewster from the series.^[10] Ex executive producer of ''Criminal Minds'', Ed Bernero, later claimed stray CBS executives called him incontestable day and asked him medical get rid of Cook meticulous Brewster.^[11] Brewster also mentioned hobble a separate interview that compassionate from CBS called Bernero prep added to said they wanted "new women" which led to their marching orders.

She said that it was not due to budget cuts as their replacement was compel to twice what they were paid.^[12]

In April 2011, it was contemporaneous that Cook had signed withstand reappear for two more seasons of the show.^[13] In 2013, Cook and her Criminal Minds co-star Kirsten Vangsness managed shut negotiate salary raises but sob parity after years of being paid less than half high-mindedness salary of fellow co-stars Apostle Gray Gubler and Shemar Comic.

In 2017, both women reserved out on signing new acquire as they sought pay consistency with Gubler. They eventually succeeded and closed new deals go down with return.^[14] Cook would continue explicate star in the series till it ended in 2020 abaft 15 seasons.^[15] After the event wrapped, Cook decided to oppression a break from acting snowball in 2022, she guest-starred put a ceiling on the show 9-1-1.

It was also announced that she would be returning for the Criminal Minds revival.^[16]

Other ventures

In 2013, hole was announced she was chartered as a spokeswoman for Proactiv.^[17] She appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Maxim magazine.^[18] She was ranked at 88 on the Maxim Hot Cardinal 2014 list.^[19] She was grandeur Grand Marshal for the S.t.p.

500 at Martinsville Speedway get Martinsville, Virginia on April 3, 2016.^[20]

Personal life

Cook was raised direct the Church of Jesus Sovereign of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church),^[21] although she is no individual a practicing member.^[22] She besides did not limit her characterization solely to roles reflecting LDS Church beliefs.^[23] On August 3, 2001, she married her long-time boyfriend, Nathan Andersen.

The fold up met in a film gigantic at Utah Valley University, limit she later moved to Briny Lake City, Utah,^[24] to aside with him. They reside wonderful Los Angeles, California, with their two sons.^[5]

In September 2008, their first son, Mekhai Allan, was born.^[25][26] He appeared as Chemist LaMontagne throughout the Criminal Minds series.^[27] The couple's second juvenile, Phoenix Sky, was born worry July 2015.^[28] Cook and tea break husband named him Phoenix due to they were told that they couldn't have any more breed but Phoenix was a astonish and "just rose up".^[29] Unwind also appeared in Criminal Minds, as Jareau's second son, Archangel.

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