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Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is an American movie actress.

Biography

Early life

Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas but she grew up in Toms River, New Jersey.According to the State of Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. At Ancestry.com Perabo's parents named her after Piper Laurie. Her father, George William Perabo, is Portuguese and her mother, Mary Charlotte Ulland, is Norwegian American. Her brothers, Noah and Adam, are also actors. She graduated high school from Toms River High School North. Perabo next graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio) in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.

After university, Perabo moved to New York and was cast in her first movie — a short film called Single Spaced, where she played The Dame. Her first big role came as the girlfriend of a wannabe rapper in Whiteboyz. She also did another short film, Knuckleface Jones, and studied at the La Mama Experimental Theater Club in New York.

Career

2000 was a big year for her: she was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as one of the lead characters, FBI agent Karen Sympathy. The break-out role that got wide recognition and shot her into the public eye was in Coyote Ugly, where she played Violet Sanford aka 'Jersey', who moves to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter. She had to take lessons in voice, guitar, piano and bartending to prepare for the role. Despite the movie not doing as well as it could have at the box office, she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment for "One Way or Another".

In 2001, she starred in an independent Canadian movie called Lost and Delirious, playing a boarding school student who falls in love with a girl. The next year she starred as a French exchange student in Slap Her... She's French, which was shelved in North America for two years, then released under the new title She Gets What She Wants. The film was released under its original title in Europe. In 2003, she had a small role as the eldest daughter in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) which she reprised in its 2005 sequel.

Other recent movies include The i Inside (2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave (2005) (where she co-starred with Lena Headey, also her costar of Imagine Me and You), Imagine Me & You (2005), Edison (2005), and The Prestige (2006).

Personal life

Perabo likes classical music and literature. She enjoys fishing and often eats what she catches.[1]

Brief filmography

• Single Spaced (1998)
• Knuckleface Jones (1999)
• Whiteboyz (1999)
• The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)
• Coyote Ugly (2000)
• Lost and Delirious (2001)
• Slap Her... She's French (2002)
• Flowers (2002)
• The I Inside (2003)
• Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
• Perfect Opposites (2004)
• George and the Dragon (2004)
• Perception (2005)
• The Cave (2005)
• Imagine Me & You (2005)
• Edison (2005)
• Good Morning Baby (2005)
• Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
• 10th & Wolf (2006)
• The Prestige (2006)

Footnotes

External links

• PiperaboUp-to-date Piper Perabo site.

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