Name	Katie Cleary
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	21 September 1981
Place of Birth	Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Born and raised on the North Shore of Chicago, in 1981, Katie is an only child who was raised by her mother. Katie's strength, confidence, and drive came from her mom's hard work, love, and determination as a parent. Katie says if it wasn't for her mother's love and strength, she would never have the ambition to do what she is doing today.

Ever since Katie was a young girl, she dreamed of becoming an actress in Hollywood. After years of balancing high school and modeling in Chicago, she entered a Liberal Arts College in Wisconsin with a track scholarship. Katie finished college with a Business and Marketing Degree while working as a model part-time.

Katie has always been very independent and driven to accomplish her goals and dreams in life. The summer of 2004, after graduation, Katie worked as real estate broker in Chicago. In the interim, she enrolled in acting classes and worked on a few movie sets while going to auditions. This was a very busy time for Katie, as she juggled all these endeavors and her knowledge for the film industry grew exponentially.

One of Katie's many accomplishments was gathering ten humane societies and organizing a fundraiser, by herself, which raised a huge amount of money to help support animal rescue and abuse centers. Katie's passion has always been to help rescue animals that have been abused or unwanted. Katie often visits animal shelters and sanctuaries to volunteer and help out. Her goal is to one-day start her own rescue center and sanctuary for unwanted and abused exotic and domestic animals.

You may recognize Katie from the hit TV show "America's Next Top Model" Season #1. Recently, she worked on such movies as "The Break Up" and the "Lake House", which were filmed in Chicago. Katie has also hosted such shows as: E! News Now, TV Guide, Ripe Live, and co-hosted the show "Get Out" appearing on HDTV. Katie has also appeared on Larry King Live and talked about her experience working on "Deal or no Deal". Katie will be appearing in national commercials for Chandon Champagne, Emerald Nuts, Black Magic, and her newest commercial for the new AT&T "LG" phone appearing with Brody Jenner and Lauren Conrad from "The Hills". Be on the lookout for Katie in her print campaign for Epson printers and her role as Jessica Reed on CSI NY.