Vanessa Ray

Vanessa Ray
Ray at the New York PaleyFest 2014 for the TV show "Blue Bloods"
Born	Vanessa Ray Liptak June 24, 1981 Livermore, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	2003–present
Notable work	TV works Pretty Little Liars As the World Turns Blue Bloods Film works Devil's Due
Spouse(s)	Derek James Baynham (m. 2003–09) Landon Beard (m. 2015)

Vanessa Ray (née Liptak; born June 24, 1981)^[1] is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role on Pretty Little Liars as CeCe Drake, Jenny on the legal drama series Suits, Teri Ciccone on As the World Turns, and Officer Eddie Janko on Blue Bloods.

Acting career

Ray earned her Actor's Equity card while performing the role of Rusty and singing "Let's Hear It For the Boy" in the musical Footloose. She originated the role of Nemo in Robert and Kristin Lopez's Finding Nemo: The Musical at Orlando's Disney World. Ray played the character Olive Ostrovsky in the national tour of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She joined the Broadway cast of Hair in its final year as Crissy, and sang the song "Frank Mills". She made her on-screen debut as Chris in the youth-oriented video short feature, The Sparky Chronicles: The Map (2003).

Since 2012, Ray has appeared as CeCe Drake, a "beyond-charismatic twenty-something blonde stylist at a boutique that has one heel in the present, one in the past",^[2] in the TV series Pretty Little Liars. Ray was announced to start filming again for PLL, Ray spoke about returning saying "It's so fun to do, and what a crazy character I get to play. She's sort of a sociopath. I think she's so weird because she's, like, 22 but hangs out with high-schoolers. It's like, 'Hey, girl! Get a life!'”^[3]

In 2013, Ray joined the Season 4 cast of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods as Officer Edit "Eddie" Janko.^[4]

Personal life

Ray now lives and works between Los Angeles and New York City. She married actor Derek James Baynham on January 8, 2003.^[5][6] In 2007, the first season of the HGTV series Marriage Under Construction covered their purchase, renovation, and eventual sale of a house in Toronto.^[7][8] Some time later, the couple divorced. In March 2015, Vanessa announced on Instagram and Twitter that she was engaged to her boyfriend of six years, Landon Beard.^[9] On June 14, 2015, they got married at the picturesque Condor's Nest Ranch in eastern San Diego County, California.^[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Sparky Chronicles: The Map, TheThe Sparky Chronicles: The Map	Chris	Short film
2004	Is He...	Steph	Short film
2008	Finding Chance	Katrina
2010	Nice Guy Johnny	Best Friend
2011	Trust Me	Girlfriend	Short film
2012	Not Waving But Drowning	Adele
	Last Day of August, TheThe Last Day of August	Phoebe
2013	Wisdom Teeth
	Mutual Friends	Lucy
2014	Devil's Due	Suzie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Marriage Under Construction	Herself	N/A
2008	Battery's Down, TheThe Battery's Down	Vanessa	3 episodes
2009	Bored to Death	Claudia	Episode: "The Case of the Missing Screenplay"
2009-2010	As the World Turns	Teri Ciccone	Series regular, 49 episodes
2010	Damages	Tessa Marchetti	Recurring role, 7 episodes
2011	White Collar	Maggie "Rocker" Sheldon	Episode: "What Happens in Burma"
	Nurse Jackie	Mrs. Donovan	Episode: "Have You Met Ms. Jones?"
2011-2012	Suits	Jenny Griffith	Recurring role, 8 episodes
2012	Girls	Heather Travis	Episode: "The Return"
	Right Not to Know, TheThe Right Not to Know	Earthy Chick	Miniseries
2012-present	Pretty Little Liars	CeCe Drake / Charlotte DiLaurentis	Recurring role, 15 episodes
2013	The Mentalist	Cayce Robbins	Episode: "Red Lacquer Nail Polish"
2013-present	Blue Bloods	Officer Eddie Janko	Recurring role, 50 episodes (Season 4–present)

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	Pretty Little Liars	CeCe Drake	2 episodes

References

1. "Vanessa Ray". HollywoodLife.com. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
2. Friedman, Molly. "Spoiler! Pretty Little Liars Season 3 Spoiler: More Details on CeCe, Connections to "the Past"". Wetpaint. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
3. Burt, Kayti. "Pretty Little Liars Season 4B Spoilers: CeCe Drake WILL Return!". Wet Paint. Retrieved May 29, 2014.
4. 'Blue Bloods' Season 4 premiere: 'Unwritten Rules' tested after a cop's murder Bobbin, Jay at zap2it.com, September 27, 2013.
5. "Marriage Under Construction 1". HuffPost TV. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
6. Nevada Marriage Index 1966–2005, Nevada State Health Division, Office of Vital Records, Carson City, Nevada.
7. "Survivor: the Toronto house hunt". Toronto Star. November 3, 2007.
8. "Marriage Under Construction - Episodes - HGTV Canada". hgtv.ca. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
9. "Exclusive: 'Blue Bloods' star Vanessa Ray is engaged!". Hello magazine. March 13, 2015.
10. "Vanessa Ray marries musician Landon Beard at fun wedding with singing and tacos". Mail Online.

External links

• Vanessa Ray at the Internet Movie Database