Marissa Bode Height, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession	Actress
Physical Stats
Eye Colour	Dark Brown
Hair Colour	Dark Brown
Career
Debut	Short Film: 'Carsleepers' (2013) as Cassie Hairston
Personal Life
Date of Birth	28 August 2000 (Monday)
Age (as of 2024)	24 Years
Birthplace	Mazomanie, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States
Zodiac sign	Virgo
Nationality	American
Hometown	Mazomanie
School	Wisconsin Heights High School, Wisconsin
College/University	The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York
Educational Qualification	Graduate
Food Habit	Non-vegetarian
Hobbies	Drawing, Singing, Cooking
Social Media	• Instagram • YouTube
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Unmarried
Affair/Girlfriend	Lauren Brooks (Writer, Journalist)
Family
Parents	Father- Sean Bode
Siblings	Brother- Tristan Bode
Favourites
Song	Witches by Alice Phoebe Lou

Some Lesser Known Facts About Marissa Bode

• Marissa Bode was raised by her parents in a middle-class household.
  

  Marissa Bode’s childhood photo with her mother

• During her childhood, one of Marissa Bode’s friends introduced her to the ‘Wicked’ musical but belonging and living in a rural area of Wisconsin, Marissa never got the chance to actually see the musical.

• At the age of just eight, Marissa Bode started doing local community theatre plays and her first ever experience of her acting was when she was selected to play the character of a little orphan in Prince and the Pauper novel play. She only had a two-liner dialogue in the play.

• Eventually, Marissa got interested in acting more and more and decided to pursue it full-time. She continued to perform in local productions throughout middle and high school.

• During her middle and high school days, she performed in many stage musicals and some of them were local productions such as ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ ‘Peter Pan,’ and ‘Mary Poppins.’
  

  Marissa Bode (on the wheelchair) in a still from one of her theatre musicals

• When Marissa Bode was just 11 years old, she met with a car accident which resulted in her being paralyzed from the waist down. However, her disability never stopped her from pursuing her passion for acting.

• In 2019, she was cast in the American short film titled ‘No Roles Written’ in which she played the character of Kalliope.

• She began her acting program at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and she gave auditions for the American epic musical fantasy film titled ‘Wicked’ a year after graduating college.

• In 2021, Marissa directed and produced an American short film titled ‘You’re Adorable’ which was also accepted to the 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival.

• In 2024, Marissa Bode was cast in the American epic musical fantasy film titled ‘Wicked’ which was a two-part film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman which in turn was loosely based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire.
  

  Marissa Bode (sitting on the wheelchair) in a still from the American epic musical fantasy film titled ‘Wicked’ (2024)

• Marrisa played the character of Nessarose in the film ‘Wicked.’

• Marissa performed her own stunts in the film ‘Wicked’ which was one of her favourite parts. Sharing her experience of the same, she was quoted saying in an interview that
  

  I loved being in the air. They put me in the harness and started out really slow and I was like, ‘Please go faster. This is so fun.”

• She was the first actress living with a disability to be cast and play her character in the film adaptation of ‘Wicked’ on the big screen because anyone who has ever played her character in the plays has been able-bodied. She was quoted saying in an interview that
  

  Not even just for myself, but that’s going to mean so much to other little girls and boys in wheelchairs and to have that representation for them to see, and that authenticity.”

• Marissa Bode loves to spend time with animals and often shares photos with her pet cat on social media.
  

  Marissa Bode with her pet cat