Upon watching "The Ring," you might do a double-take when you realize Katie's friend Kellan is played by actor Adam Brody. A minor role for sure, Kellan and his friends give Rachel a jump-start to her investigation into her niece's death. It would only be a year later that Brody's career would go from minor expositional dude to full-fledged teen hearthrob. In 2003, he catapulted into the pop culture zeitgeist by playing Seth Cohen on the teen prime-time soap "The O.C." During the show's run, Brody nurtured his burgeoning movie career with roles in movies like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Thank You For Smoking," but he never thought about pulling a David Caruso and abandoning his TV hit. He told The Independent, "Leaving didn't seem like an option or the honorable thing to do. I didn't want it to go on forever, but I had a contract and I was going to honor it."
After "The O.C.," Brody continued to act in movies like "Jennifer's Body," "Lovelace," "Some Girl(S)," and "Sleeping With Other People." Brody had even dabbled in superhero franchise-land with a part in DC's "Shazam." On TV, he's been on a number of series, including "Burning Love," "Billy & Billie," "The League," "StartUp," "Single Parents," and "Fleishman Is in Trouble." When he's not acting, Brody has played music in his indie band Big Japan and he has dabbled in writing, including co-authoring the comic book mini-series like "Red Menace."
