Actress. Author. Compulsively Creative.
Cassandra Bodzak is a SAG-AFTRA actress and four-time author based between Los Angeles and New York. Her on-screen work spans television and independent film — FX’s Louie, NBC’s 30 Rock, and lead roles in features that have screened at festivals across the country, including Being Dead Should Be Easy, Paper Swans, and Bad Substitute, which earned her Best Supporting Actress at the Vegas Film Festival. She is represented theatrically and commercially by Sovereign Talent Group, with management by Sandy Aparicio at Citizen Skull Management.
On screen, Cassandra gravitates toward women with quiet authority — the kind who change a room’s temperature without raising their voice. She lives in the gray: the therapist who needs her own therapist, the detective bending rules she believes in, the friend whose steadiness is actually armor. Whether grounded drama or sharp ensemble comedy, she is most alive in characters who are deeply competent and quietly complicated.
Her path to those characters is part of what makes her work distinct. Audiences first met Cassandra on ABC’s The Taste, competing alongside Anthony Bourdain’s team as the show’s resident healthy-living voice. She went on to spend a decade as one of the most trusted names in intentional living — writing four books (Eat with Intention, Manifesting Through Meditation, The Spiritual Awakening Journal, and The Mindful Table), teaching meditation to a global community, and guiding thousands of women through the inner work of clearing fear and old stories to go after what they actually want.
That decade is not a former life. It is her technique. Cassandra builds characters from the inside out — meditating in their nervous systems, sitting with their fears and desires before she ever touches the lines — and it shows up as the thing directors remark on most: her presence. The stillness she spent ten years teaching is the same stillness she brings to set.
Today she shares the whole picture — the auditions, the festivals, the craft, and the beautiful, complicated life around it — through her Substack, with intention, home of her weekly series Coffee Before Call-Time; her podcast of the same name, running strong since 2015 with over 200 episodes; her YouTube channel; and daily life on Instagram. Off set, you’ll find her chasing her toddler, Hudson, perfecting healthy baked goods, and living proof of the message she’s spent her career carrying: you don’t have to choose between being a great mom and becoming the artist you were always meant to be.
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