Jodie Resther

Acting

Jodie Resther

Born 1978-11-28 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jodie Lynn Resther (born November 28, 1978) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is best known for her television roles including Kiki in Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1992 - 1996) and the voice of Francine Frensky in Arthur (1996 - 2022).

Acting credits

I'm Not There poster
6.5

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

I'm Not There

2007

Abandon poster
4.8

A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

Abandon

2002

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller poster
6.0

When the joker Tommy Tricker plays some practical jokes on some of his friends, his best friend Ralph, a stamp collector, discovers the secret of "stamp travel" to make him travel around the world on a stamp to bring back the mysterious Charles Merriweather, who never returned on a stamp for 75 years.

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

1988

Good Sam poster
6.0

A news reporter looks into who has been anonymously leaving large cash gifts on random doorsteps in New York.

Good Sam

2019

Wild Thing poster
5.7

A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.

Wild Thing

1987

Lemonade poster
6.3

While working in the US on a temporary visa as a caretaker, Mara, a 30 year-old single mother from Romania, marries Daniel, an American. After the arrival of her son Dragos, everything seems to have fallen perfectly into place. When the process of getting a green card veers unexpectedly off course, however, Mara is faced with abuses of power on every level and forced to answer a dark question about herself – how far would you go to get what you want?

Lemonade

2018

Arthur's Perfect Christmas poster
7.7

Arthur, D.W., and their family and friends prepare to make the best Christmas ever in Elwood City - but obstacles get in their way.

Arthur's Perfect Christmas

2000

Arthur and the Haunted Tree House poster
6.5

While trick-or-treating, Francine meets an elderly woman with a very mysterious past; Binky finds himself at Mr. Ratburn's amazing haunted house; and Arthur, Buster and Ladonna fear the tree house may be haunted.

Arthur and the Haunted Tree House

2017

Waitresses Wanted poster
4.2

Brazilian native Priscilla Paredes is intent on staying in Montreal, despite the expiration of her student visa. Out of desperation, she takes a job as an exotic dancer at the Elixir, a downtown strip club, where she meets Milagro, a headstrong Quebecoise and fellow dancer who, ironically, longs to move to Brazil. Priscilla is welcomed into Milagro's secret family life, and introduced to her young daughter Chloé; Milagro in turn teaches Priscilla how to fight for what she wants, for what she needs.

Waitresses Wanted

2008

Arthur: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll poster
8.5

When the prospect of an Elwood City concert by the Backstreet Boys drives everyone else into a frenzy, a disgusted Francine decides to counter with an "anti-cute" band of her own called U Stink. But things don't go quite the way she had planned.

Arthur: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

2002

Too Young to Marry poster
6.1

Connecticut high school students Max Doyle and Jessica Carpenter fall in love and feel making love isn't enough, so they brave everyone's objections and get married.

Too Young to Marry

2007

No artwork available
4.5

The plot revolves around two hipster friends who pretend to be a writer with a troubled past in their quest for fame.

Who Is KK Downey?

2008