Piper Perabo : First step was in Coyote Ugly!
Piper Lisa Perabo (pronounced pear-a-bow; born October 31, 1976) is an American stage, film and television actress. Since her breakthrough role in Coyote Ugly (2000), her subsequent films have included 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, the lead role on the USA Network series Covert Affairs, for which she has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.She has the kind of lips and eyes that make magazine editors (like ours) drool. Let’s leave it at that for now, before we say something we might get in trouble for.
She only recently became a university graduate, but according to rumors, she beat out Britney Spears and Jewel for the role as Violet in Coyote Ugly. That’s quite a coup. 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. Perabo is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent. Her parents named her after actress Piper Laurie and she has two younger brothers: Noah (born May 1979), and Adam (born August 1981). Perabo graduated from high school at Toms River High School North and graduated summa cum laude from Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in theater, also studying physics, poetry and Latin 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. Perabo wasn’t cast but when Fitzgerald found out that she didn’t have any representation, she made phone calls on Perabo’s behalf and found her a manager, who still represents her.
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As the play’s run was coming to an end, Perabo read the script for the USA Network television spy series Covert Affairs: “I was reading movie scripts and I wasn’t finding anything that was really speaking to me and my agent suggested that I read [the Covert Affairs script]. And I hadn’t thought about doing television, but when I read it, it kind of changed everything for me. She’s such a powerful character, she’s so smart, the action is so intense, and I really thought it would be fun to do.” The following year, she was officially cast as CIA agent Annie Walker, the lead character in Covert Affairs. In August 2010, Perabo injured her knee 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. Perabo broke her leg the day before shooting finished for the second season finale of Covert Affairs.
In September 2012, Perabo had a supporting role in the time travel thriller Looper alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis. In December 2012, Perabo was cast as a recurring character on Matthew Perry’s new television series, the sitcom Go On. Perabo’s character, Simone, is a former member of the support group that Perry’s character is a member of, returning to the group and becoming a love interest of his. Perabo was originally scheduled to appear in three episodes, but her arc was increased to four.Perabo next has a starring role alongside James Marsden, Thomas Jane and Billy Bob Thornton in David Hackl’s thriller Red Machine, which is scheduled for release in 2013.
