Missouri-born actress and model, Stephanie Hodge has been active in the American movie scene since the 1980s. One of her biggest roles did not however come until the early 2000s.
By 2000, Stephanie Hodge was cast in the movie Coyote Ugly and since then, she has been trying to make her way in the industry. However, still, in the early 2000s, she was faced with a difficult situation and her career was put on hold after she suffered an accident that would have paralyzed her.
Hodge was born in Kansas City
Stephanie Hodge was born on 22 April 1979 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and model who began her acting career way back in the 1990s before she even got to the age of 20.
Stephanie Hodge moved to Los Angeles and began to chase a career as a model and actress. She later took up a job as an agent for a media company located in Los Angeles. However, she did not stop chasing auditions and her dreams of acting and modeling. Stephanie got a job as a magazine model and has been featured in a couple of movies.
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She is the Girl from Jackass who Hurt her Back
A lot of people have been interested in knowing what happened to 45–year-old Stephanie Hodge. She was a very close pal of the Jackass crew as she loved to hang out with them and watch the filming.
For those not conversant with the MTV show, Jackass is a reality TV show series that featured a group of men who would prank each other or the public and carry out stunts. It starred the likes of Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and 7 other men.
Hodge who at the time was an aspiring actress ended up playing as a ring girl on the show a couple of times. She featured in a few episodes involving a woman.
Stephanie’s TV debut was in one of the TV show’s earliest episodes; ‘A Cool Hand Luke’. This episode was about a hard-boiled egg-eating contest that she was part of. Hodge then went on to feature in a couple more stunts for the show until the one that almost cost her life.
In 2001, she got involved in one of the show’s stunts that seemed perfect to be played by a female. The stunt involved sliding down a hill on a mattress. Easy peasy it may have sounded but in reality, it was a disaster.
While doing the stunt, Hodge flew off the mattress after it hit snow back. She was plunged high up into the air and fell down hard on her back snapping her back and pelvis. After this injury, Hodge spent 3 months bedridden in her parent’s house and being catered to. She also spent another 3 months doing physical therapy which prevented her from having surgery done.
The aftermath of Her Accident
Stephanie spent almost a year away from acting and modeling as she was in recovery. However, she was still close to the crew of the show and kept in close touch. Luckily for her, she recovered fully from the accident without needing surgery.
Also, the accident would have been very bad as she would have been paralyzed for life. Thankful to the MTV medic team, this situation was controlled on time.
As a result of the accident, the Jackass team banned females from performing stunts on the show. They still had female team members but they couldn’t bear seeing another female getting hurt on the show and so they scraped out female stunts.
Upon Stephanie’s recovery, she went back to the set of Jackass. She still played the role of a ring card girl during some parts of the filming of the first and second Jackass films.
Stephanie Hodge is Married
checkusout!! “@StoneFoxBride: WeddingWeLove: @stephaniehodge and @vincehaycock — more tk on http://t.co/rI4PSRN6 soon! pic.twitter.com/bB91dQZh”
— stephanie hodge (@stephaniehodge) March 29, 2012
Stephanie Hodge has been married for a while now. While she worked as a magazine model and aspiring actress, she met and fell in love with a professional skateboarder. This was the same period her friendship with Johnny ‘Jackass’ Knoxville kicked off.
She however got married to Vincent Haycock in 2012 and they have welcomed two children together.
List of Movies she has been featured in
Though not as famous as many Hollywood actresses whose career kicked off in the 1980s, Stephanie has been in a handful of productions. The title of productions she has been part of are;
- London Underground – 1991 As herself
- The Bold and the Beautiful – 1999 As ‘Forrester Model’
- Coyote Ugly – 2000 As ‘Dancing Girl in Bar’
- Jackass – 2000-2009
45-Year-old Stephanie Hodge is Often Mistaken for another Actor
The young actress has often been mistaken for 67–year-old Stephanie Hodge. The latter is also an actress who is also a stand-up comedian and famous for her role as ‘Nurse Sandy’ in Nurses.
The older Hodge hails from Wilmington, Ohio, and has been active as an entertainer since 1988. She was previously married to Scott Novotny but got divorced and is now married to Lance Lyon with whom she shares one child.
The wife of Lance has been in other movies such as the sitcom Unhappily Ever After and Dog with a Blog.
Where is Stephanie Hodge now?
.@cagovernor without funding for new students, over 1/3 of school districts across the state will be at a significant disadvantage in addressing COVID-19 learning loss, widening achievement gaps, and health and safety issues related to the pandemic. #FundAllKids pic.twitter.com/RyunZAmlN1
— stephanie hodge (@stephaniehodge) July 14, 2020
Hodge seems to have taken a break from TV and acting completely. From the looks of her Twitter account, it looks like she has joined a corporate world. On a post dating back to 2019, she announced that she had joined ‘I.W’ as an executive producer.
Follow-up tweets from her which date to 2020 show her being interested and involved in the welfare and funding of students, especially during the covid-19 pandemic.
