how do i cast object from data reader to boolean value ?

Question

how do i cast object from data reader to boolean value ?

Employee has IsActive property which is Bool data type. 

 

I tried followings but got exception .

 

emp.IsActive = (bool)rdr["Is_Active"];
emp.IsActive = Convert.ToBoolean(rdr["Is_Active"]);

var i = rdr.GetOrdinal("Is_Active");
emp.IsActive = rdr.GetBoolean(i);