Stephanie Hodge

Stephanie Hodge is an American comedian and actress who moved from stand-up clubs in the 1980s into a long run of television sitcoms. Born in Wilmington, Ohio, she studied at Wilmington College and Ohio University in Athens. Her earliest film credits came in Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and I, Madman (1989). Televised comedy followed in 1990, when she took a co-starring part on the briefly aired CBS series Sugar and Spice, and she later worked on the syndicated variety show My Talk Show and released a 1991 stand-up special, Stephanie Hodge: Straight Up. She is best known as Nurse Sandy Miller on NBC's Nurses from 1991 to 1993 and as Jennie Malloy on The WB's Unhappily Ever After from 1995 to 1998. Later roles included Evolution, a science fiction movie from 2001, and guest appearances on Reba, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The War at Home, Dog with a Blog, NCIS, Bones, Scandal and The Rookie.