Biography

Ogy (rhymes with Hoagie like the sandwich) was born in a small village in Algeria to an Algerian mother and an American father. Rumor has it that she was named after Yogi Bear because her mother was watching TV and decided that if Yogi was the male, then Ogy must be the female. The family left Algeria when she was young and came to America where she acted in her first school play, Dr. DooLittle and was hooked. Her parents got divorced when she was 6, and her mother moved them from Connecticut to South Carolina where she continued to act in theater and graduated with honors from from Dorman High in Spartanburg, SC. After high school, Ogy received multiple scholarships and financial aid so that she could attend college, including the National Endowment for the Arts and went on to study Architecture (a 5 year program) at the Rhode Island School of Design. While at RISD, she was accepted into the European Honors Program for her senior year, where she studied abroad in Rome, Italy for a year. She interned with an Architecture firm there as well as performed at the Teatro Colosseo. Upon completing her fifth year of Architecture, she received her Bachelor of Art and Bachelor of Architecture. Ogy practiced Architecture for a brief period in San Francisco, but once again was called to act in Los Angeles when her director from Italy encouraged her to move to LA and pursue her dreams of acting. Her first movie, "She's no Angel" starring Tracy Gold, Taft Hartley'd her allowing her to instantly become a member of SAG-Aftra. She has gone on to work on such notable projects as How I Met Your Mother, House MD, Lucifer, 13 Reasons Why, and in the last few years, Hacks, CSI Vegas, Matlock, Shrinking and multiple Paramount films including "The Image of You" and "Stranger in my Home".
- IMDb mini biography by: Liz Fuller