Actress Galadriel Stineman is back in Middle America, and she loves it.
The Cincinnati native and Northern Kentucky University graduate — who played girlfriend Cassidy in 2013 on ABC’s The Middle sitcom, set in a fictional Indiana town — has moved her family back to Northern Kentucky while she stars in a new TV series filmed in Ohio.
“I had to leave here 20 years ago to do what I wanted to do [in Hollywood],” says Stineman, who appeared in 14 episodes of The Middle, which was filmed in Burbank, Calif.
Now she and her husband, actor Kevin Joy, can pursue acting here (thanks to Ohio’s film tax credits); teach their Stineman/Joy Studios acting classes online; write novels; and raise their two sons…