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Birth Name:Piper Lisa Perabo
Famous As: Actress
Date of Birth: October 31, 1976
Place of Birth: Toms River, New Jersey, USA
Height: 5' 7
Nationality: American
Father: George William Perabo
Mother: Mary Charlotte Ulland
Brother(s): Noah Perabo (actor), Adam Perabo
Education: Graduated from Toms River High School North, class of 1994
Graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1998
Claim to Fame: As Violet Sanford in Coyote Ugly (2000)

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    Starring Piper Perabo (COYOTE UGLY), Chris Pine (STAR TREK's new Kirk), Emily VanCamp (EVERWOOD), Lou Taylor Pucci (FANBOYS), and Christopher...
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    ... the new one-sheet for Àlex and David Pastor's Carriers, starring Star Trek's Chris Pine, Lou Taylor Pucci, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp.
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Piper Perabo
Born Piper Lisa Perabo
October 31, 1976 (1976-10-31) (age 32)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1997 - present

Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is an American stage, film and television actress.

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Early life

Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas1 and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, the Dean of English & Literature at Ocean County College.2 She is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent. Her parents chose to name her after actress Piper Laurie.2 Her brother Adam is also an actor. In high school (Toms River North), Perabo appeared in the annual musicals. She was also president of the National Honor Society chapter and the editor of the school literary magazine, Polaris.

She graduated from high school at Toms River High School North and then summa cum laude from Ohio University's Honors Tutorial College in 1998 with a BFA in theater. After graduating, Piper studied acting at the LaMama Theater in New York and had small roles in two plays. She was a waitress in New York City at an upscale restaurant prior to being discovered.

Career

In 2000, Perabo was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as lead character FBI agent Karen Sympathy. Her next film, Coyote Ugly, was more of a star-making role. She played Violet Sanford, nicknamed "Jersey," a young woman who moves to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter. Perabo took lessons in voice, guitar, piano and bartending to prepare for the role. Despite poor reviews, the film was a modest box-office success and she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment for "One Way or Another."

In 2001, Perabo starred in an independent Canadian movie called Lost and Delirious, playing a boarding school student who falls in love with a female classmate. 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 role as the eldest Baker child, Nora, in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) which she reprised in its 2005 sequel.

Other recent films include The i Inside (2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Edison (2005), and The Prestige (2006). Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008). She has also appeared as a nutritionist on the Fox TV show House.

In 2009, Perabo made her Broadway debut in the Neil LaBute play reasons to be pretty.3

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1998 Single Spaced Giant Squid
1999 Knuckleface Jones That Girl
Whiteboyz Sara
2000 The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle Karen Sympathy
Coyote Ugly Violet Sanford
2001 Lost and Delirious Pauline 'Paulie' Oster
2002 Slap Her... She's French Genevieve Le Plouff Alternative title: She Gets What She Wants
Flowers Iris
2003 The i Inside Anna
Cheaper by the Dozen Nora Baker
2004 Perfect Opposites Julia Bishop
George and the Dragon Princess Lunna
2005 Perception Jen
The Cave Charlie
Edison Willow Summerfield
Good Morning Baby Gabriella
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Nora Baker-McNulty
Imagine Me & You Rachel
2006 10th & Wolf Brandy
The Prestige Julia McCullough
First Snow Deirdre
Karas: The Prophecy Yurine Voice
2007 Because I Said So Mae Wilder
In Vivid Detail Leslie
2008 Beverly Hills Chihuahua Rachel Ashe Lynn
The Lazarus Project Lisa Garvey
2009 Carriers Bobby
Ashes Bettina
Sordid Things Tabitha White
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2007 House Honey 1 episode
2008 The Prince of Motor City Television movie
2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Calista Haslum 1 episode

References

  1. ^ According to the State of Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. At Ancestry.com
  2. ^ a b Putting the right accent on a career / "Coyote Ugly's' Piper Perabo switches genres with "Slap Her .‚.‚. She's French'
  3. ^ Antrim, Taylor. "Staging Around" (in English). style.com. http://www.style.com/vogue/mensvogue/2009_April_Piper_Perabo/. Retrieved on 2009-07-03. 

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