Cassidy Gifford
American actress
Cassidy Erin Gifford (born August 2, 1993) is an American actress. She co-starred with Wyatt Nash in the 2017 film Like Cats and Dogs, and appears as Reagan Baxter in the drama series The Baxters.
Early life
Cassidy Erin Gifford was born on August 2, 1993, in Greenwich, Connecticut, to former American football player Frank Gifford (1930-2015) and American television host Kathie Lee Gifford.
Career
Gifford's early acting career includes an appearance on an episode of That's So Raven in 2005. In 2015 she was cast in Jason Blum's supernatural horror film The Gallows. She co-starred with Wyatt Nash in the 2017 Hallmark Channel film Like Cats and Dogs. The same year, she appeared as Minnie in the movie Ten: Murder Island (which is based on the novel Ten by Gretchen McNeil), and was cast as Cara in the sci-fi adventure movie Time Trap.
Gifford appears as Reagan Decker in the drama series The Baxters; the series is based on Karen Kingsbury's Redemption book series.
Personal life
She is the younger sister of Cody Gifford, and younger half-sister of Kyle Gifford, Jeff Gifford, and Victoria Gifford Kennedy from her father's first marriage. In June 2020, she married Ben Wierda, nephew of Betsy DeVos and Erik Prince and grandson of Edgar Prince, in a private ceremony in Michigan.
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