Piper Perabo
Born	October 31, 1976 (1976-10-31) (age 31) Dallas, Texas, U.S.

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Biography

Personal life

Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas^[1] and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a poetry professor at Ocean County College.^[2] She is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent. Her parents chose to name her after actress Piper Laurie.^[2] Her brothers, Noah and Adam, are also actors. In high school, Perabo appeared in the annual musicals. Her senior year, she was Katie in Meet Me In St. Louis; junior year, Cousin Fan in Mame; sophomore year, Lady Brighton in Me and My Girl; and freshman year, a dancer in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. She was also president of the National Honor Society and the editor of the school literary magazine, Polaris. In 2007, she visited her high school to see How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation). ... The Township of Toms River is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, and the county seat of Ocean CountyGR6. ... Née redirects here. ... Ocean County College is an accredited, co-educational, two-year, public, community college located in Ocean County, New Jersey. ... Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932) is an American actress. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Meet Me in St. ... MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software, with the intent of preserving gaming history and preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. ... Me and My Girl is a popular British stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. ... How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical, initially running for 1,417 performances. ... Established in 1921, the National Honor Society (NHS) is recognition program for middle and high school students who show achievement in scholarship, leadership, service, and character. ...

She graduated from high school at Toms River High School North and then 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. Perabo enjoys classical music, literature and fishing. Piper is close friends with actress Lena Headey, her co-star in The Cave and Imagine Me & You. Toms River High School North is a four-year public high school, and was the second high school established in Toms River, New Jersey, as part of the Toms River Regional Schools. ... Ohio University (OHIO) is a public university located in Athens, Ohio that is situated on a 1,800 acre (7. ... The Bachelor of Fine Arts, or BFA, or B.F.A. is an undergraduate degree. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about Western art music from 1000 AD to the present. ... Lena Headey is an actress best known for playing Sarah Connor on FOXs Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, as well as appearing in such films as The Remains of the Day, The Brothers Grimm and 300. ... The Cave is a 2005 sci-fi/horror film directed by Bruce Hunt. ... Imagine Me & You is a 2005 British film written and directed by Ol Parker. ...

Career

In 2000, Perabo was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as lead character FBI agent Karen Sympathy. Her following role in Coyote Ugly brought her into the public eye. She played the role of Violet Sanford, a.k.a. "Jersey," a young woman 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 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." The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle was a critically and financially unsuccessful movie released in 2000 based on the television cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show by Jay Ward. ... Coyote Ugly is a romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City, and released in August 2000 (See 2000 in film). ... The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV. Categories Best Movie Best Male Performance Besy Female Performance Most Desirable Male Most Desirable Female Best Breakthrough Performance (Male and Female) Best On-Screen Duo Best Villain Best Comedic Performance Best Song From a Movie (Best musical...

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. Spoiler warning: Lost and Delirious is a Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool that was released in 2001. ... Slap Her. ... Slap Her. ... Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American comedy film about a family with twelve children (seven boys and five girls). ... Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a film produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 2005 (see 2005 in film). ...

Other recent films include The i Inside (2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave (2005), Edison (2005), and The Prestige (2006). She has also appeared as a nutritionist on the Fox TV show House. The i Inside is a 2003 psychological thriller directed by Roland Suso Richter. ... George and the Dragon, (alternative title: Dragon Sword) is a sci-fi channel movie about a knight named George (James Purefoy) who, on his return from the Crusade, embarks on a mission to find Princess Lunna (Piper Perabo), who has been missing for days. ... The Cave is a 2005 sci-fi/horror film directed by Bruce Hunt. ... Edison (known as Edison Force in the United States) is a 2005 movie written and directed by David J. Burke. ... The Prestige is a 2006 period film directed by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from the 1995 World Fantasy Award-winning novel of the same name by Christopher Priest. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... House, also known as House, M.D., is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American medical drama, which debuted on the FOX network on November 16, 2004. ...

In 2008 Perabo played a lead role in the Neil LaBute theater play Reasons to Be Pretty. 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright. ...

Filmography

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References

External links

• Piper Perabo at the Internet Movie Database
• Piper Perabo at Yahoo! Movies
• Fanpage about Piper Perabo