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Piper Perabo

Piper Perabo

Birthday: 1976-10-31 | Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA

Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is a Golden Globe Award nominated American stage, film and television actress. Since her breakthrough role in Coyote Ugly (2000), she has appeared in films such as Lost and Delirious (2001), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige (2006), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008), and Looper (2012). Since 2010, she has played Annie Walker on the USA Network series Covert Affairs, for which she has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Early life Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a professor of poetry at Ocean County College. She is of English, German, Irish, and Norwegian descent; while her surname is sometimes described as Portuguese, it originates in Germany, where her paternal grandfather's family came from. She grew up in Toms River, New Jersey. Perabo's parents named her after actress Piper Laurie. She has two younger brothers: Noah (born 1979) and Adam (born 1981). She graduated from Toms River High School North in 1994, and earned a bachelor's degree in theater from Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1998. She also studied Latin, physics, and poetry in her final year. Perabo was first noticed a year before she graduated from university. She was in New York City, visiting her then-boyfriend, and accompanied him to an audition. Casting director Denise Fitzgerald spotted her and asked her to read for a part. She was not cast, but when Fitzgerald found out that she didn't have any representation, she made phone calls on Perabo's behalf and found her an agent. Personal life Perabo has been close friends with actress Lena Headey since they starred together in the 2005 films The Cave and Imagine Me & You. She speaks fluent French, and is an advocate of LGBT rights. As of 2013, she is engaged to Stephen Kay.She is the part-owner of the prohibition-themed bar Employees Only in West Village, Manhattan, which opened in 2005, and the restaurant Jack's Wife Freda in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, which opened in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Piper Perabo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
The Big Leap

as    Paula Clark

2020
Spontaneous

as    Angela

2019
Turn Up Charlie

as    Sara

2017
Black Butterfly

as    Laura

2016
Notorious

as    Julia George

2015
Into the Grizzly Maze

as    Michelle

2012
Looper

as    Suzie

2010
Covert Affairs

as    Annie Walker

2009
Carriers

as    Bobby

2008
The Lazarus Project

as    Lisa Garvey

2008
Beverly Hills Chihuahua

as    Rachel Ashe Lynn

2007
In Vivid Detail

as    Leslie

2007
Because I Said So

as    Mae

2006
10th & Wolf

as    Brandy

2006
First Snow

as    Deirdre

2006
The Prestige

as    Julia McCullough

2006
Imagine Me & You

as    Rachel

2005
The Cave

as    Charlie

2005
Cheaper by the Dozen 2

as    Nora Baker-McNulty

2005
Edison

as    Willow

2004
The I Inside

as    Anna

2004
Perfect Opposites

as    Julia Bishop

2004
George and the Dragon

as    Princess Luma

2003
Cheaper by the Dozen

as    Nora Baker

2002
Slap Her... She's French

as    Genevieve Le Plouff

2001
Lost and Delirious

as    Pauline 'Paulie' Oster

2000
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle

as    Karen Sympathy

2000
Coyote Ugly

as    Violet Sanford (Jersey)

1999
Whiteboyz

as    Sara