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Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31,
1976) is an American movie actress.
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."
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. T
he film was released under its original
title in Europe. In 2003, she had a small role as the
eldest daughter 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), Edison (2005), and The Prestige (2006). She has
also appeared as a nutritionist on the Fox TV show
"House".
Personal life: Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas
and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey. Her father,
George William Perabo, is Portuguese and her mother,
Mary Charlotte Ulland, is Norwegian. Piper's parents
chose to name her after the classic actress, Piper
Laurie.[citation needed] Her brothers, Noah and Adam,
are also actors. She graduated from high school at Toms
River High School North and then attended Ohio
University (in Athens, Ohio) where she graduated summa
cum laude in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in
theater.
In high school she appeared in each yearly 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".
Perabo graduated 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
officially discovered. Perabo enjoys classical music,
literature and fishing. Piper is close friends with
actress Lena Headey, her co-star inThe Cave and Imagine
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