Piper Perabo

Piper Perabo
Born Piper Lisa Perabo
October 31, 1976 (1976-10-31) (age 35)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1998–present

Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976)[1] is a Golden Globe Award nominated American stage, film and television actress.

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Early life

Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas[2] and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a professor of poetry at Ocean County College.[3] Piper is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent.[4][5] Her parents named her after actress Piper Laurie.[3] She has two brothers: Noah (born May 1979), and Adam (born August 1981), and graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio with a degree in theater.

Career

In 2000, Perabo was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, as FBI agent Karen Sympathy. Her next film role was in Coyote Ugly as Violet 'Jersey' Sanford, for which 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), a role she reprised in the film's 2005 sequel.

Her other films include The I Inside (2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Edison (2005), The Prestige (2006), and Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008). She 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.[6] In June 2009, Perabo was cast as the lead character, CIA agent Annie Walker, in the television spy series Covert Affairs[7] on the USA Network.

On August 20, 2010, Perabo was injured filming an episode of Covert Affairs. After the finale of the first season it was announced that the second season would begin in summer of 2011. For her work on Covert Affairs, she received a nomination for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama.[8]

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1998 Single Spaced The Dame
1999 Knuckleface Jones Orange-dressed angel
Whiteboyz Sara
2000 The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle Karen Sympathy
Coyote Ugly Violet Sanford "Jersey" MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment
Nominated — Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Female — Newcomer
Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Female Breakthrough Performance
2001 Lost and Delirious Pauline 'Paulie' Oster
2002 Slap Her... She's French Genevieve Le Plouff Alternative title: She Gets What She Wants
Followers Iris
2003 The i Inside Anna
Cheaper by the Dozen Nora Baker Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liplock Shared with Ashton Kutcher
2004 Perfect Opposites Julia Bishop
George and the Dragon Princess Lunna Also known as "Dragon Sword"
2005 Perception Jen
The Cave Charlie
Edison Willow Summerfield Direct-to-video
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
Sordid Things Tabitha White
2010 Ashes Bettina
2012 Looper Suzie
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2007 House Honey Episode "Resignation"
2008 The Prince of Motor City Meg Riley Television movie
2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Calista Haslum Episode "Folie a Deux"
2010–present Covert Affairs Annie Walker Lead role

Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series

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