Piper Perabo
Encyclopedia
Piper Lisa Perabo is a Golden Globe Award nominated American
stage, film and television actress.
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
. Piper is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent. Her parents named her after actress Piper Laurie
. 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.
, 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
. In June 2009, Perabo was cast as the lead character, CIA
agent
Annie Walker, in the television spy series Covert Affairs
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.
United States
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stage, film and television actress.
Early life
Perabo was born in Dallas, TexasTexas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey
Toms River, New Jersey
Toms River is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Toms River Township and is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. It is part of a larger Toms River Township...
, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née
Married and maiden names
A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....
Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a professor of poetry at Ocean County College
Ocean County College
Ocean County College is an accredited, coeducational, two-year, public, community college located in Ocean County, New Jersey. Its main campus is in Toms River...
. Piper is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent. Her parents named her after actress Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie is an American actress of stage and screen known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the films The Hustler, Carrie, and Children of a Lesser God, all of which brought her Academy Award nominations...
. She has two brothers: Noah (born May 1979), and Adam (born August 1981), and graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University
Ohio University
Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...
in Athens, Ohio
Athens, Ohio
Athens is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Athens County, Ohio, United States. It is located along the Hocking River in the southeastern part of Ohio. A historic college town, Athens is home to Ohio University and is the principal city of the Athens, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. ...
with a degree in theater.
Career
In 2000, Perabo was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and BullwinkleThe Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle is a 2000 comedy film based on the television cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show by Jay Ward. The animated characters Rocky and Bullwinkle shared the screen with live actors portraying Fearless Leader , Boris Badenov , Natasha Fatale , and FBI agent Karen...
, as FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
agent
Special agent
Special agent is usually the title for a detective or investigator for a state, county, municipal, federal or tribal government. An agent is a worker for any federal agency, and a secret agent is one who works for an intelligence agency....
Karen Sympathy. Her next film role was in Coyote Ugly
Coyote Ugly (film)
Coyote Ugly is a 2000 romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City. The film stars Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia...
as Violet 'Jersey' Sanford, for which she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment for "One Way or Another
One Way or Another
"One Way or Another" is a song by American New Wave band Blondie.-Song information:Written by Debbie Harry and Nigel Harrison for the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines , the song was inspired by one of Harry's ex-boyfriends who stalked her after their break up. The song was released as a...
".
In 2001, Perabo starred in an independent Canadian movie called Lost and Delirious
Lost and Delirious
Lost and Delirious is a 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary , who observes the changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline and Victoria...
, playing a boarding school
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
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
Slap Her... She's French
Slap Her… She's French, shown in the United States as She Gets What She Wants, is a 2002 Winchester Films teen comedy, directed by Melanie Mayron and starring Piper Perabo.-Plot:...
, 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
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film)
Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American comedy film about a family with 12 children . The film takes its title from the 1948 biography of the same name of Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth and their 12 children, but other than the title and the concept of a family with 12 children,...
(2003), a role she reprised in the film's 2005 sequel
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a 2005 film produced by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to the family comedy film Cheaper by the Dozen . Shawn Levy, the director of the first film, did not return as director for this sequel, which was instead directed by Adam Shankman . Levy was a producer of the film...
.
Her other films include The I Inside
The i Inside
The I Inside is a 2003 psychological thriller directed by Roland Suso Richter. It was written by Michael Cooney based on his own play Point of Death. This film has no connection with the science-fiction novel, The I Inside, by Alan Dean Foster....
(2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave
The Cave (film)
The Cave is a 2005 horror film, directed by Bruce Hunt. It stars Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut, Marcel Iureş, Lena Headey, Rick Ravanello, Piper Perabo and Daniel Dae Kim.-Plot:...
(2005), Imagine Me & You
Imagine Me & You
Imagine Me & You is a 2005 British-American comedy-romance film written and directed by Ol Parker. It centres on the relationship between Rachel, played by Piper Perabo and Luce, played by Lena Headey, who meet on Rachel's wedding day. The movie takes its title from a line in the song "Happy...
(2005), Edison
Edison (film)
Edison , is a 2005 American thriller film written and directed by David J. Burke, starring Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, and Kevin Spacey....
(2005), The Prestige
The Prestige (film)
The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century...
(2006), and Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a 2008 family comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is directed by Raja Gosnell and released on October 3, 2008...
(2008). She appeared as a nutritionist
Nutritionist
A nutritionist is a person who advises on matters of food and nutrition impacts on health. Different professional terms are used in different countries, employment settings and contexts — some examples include: nutrition scientist, public health nutritionist, dietitian-nutritionist, clinical...
on the Fox TV show House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
.
In 2009, Perabo made her Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
debut in the Neil LaBute
Neil LaBute
Neil N. LaBute is an American film director, screenwriter and playwright.-Early life:LaBute was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Marian, a hospital receptionist, and Richard LaBute, a long-haul truck driver. LaBute is of French Canadian, English and Irish ancestry, and was raised in Spokane,...
play Reasons to Be Pretty
Reasons to be pretty
reasons to be pretty is a play by Neil LaBute, his first to be staged on Broadway. The plot centers on four young working class friends and lovers who become increasingly dissatisfied with their dead-end lives and each other...
. In June 2009, Perabo was cast as the lead character, CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
agent
Field agent
In espionage, a field agent is an agent who works in the field as opposed to one who works at the office or headquarters. A field agent can work alone or in a group but usually has a case officer who is in charge....
Annie Walker, in the television spy series Covert Affairs
Covert Affairs
Covert Affairs is a USA Network television series starring Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham. The one-hour drama premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The show concluded its first season on September 14, 2010 and was renewed for a second season on August 19, 2010. The second season began airing on...
on the USA Network
USA Network
USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...
.
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.
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 Coyote Ugly (film) Coyote Ugly is a 2000 romantic comedy/drama based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, set in New York City. The film stars Piper Perabo and Adam Garcia... |
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 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance This is a following list of the MTV Movie Award winners and nominees for Best Breakthrough Performance. In many years, the awards were split into Male and Female categories... |
|
| 2001 | Lost and Delirious Lost and Delirious Lost and Delirious is a 2001 Canadian drama film directed by Léa Pool and loosely based on the novel The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan. Lost and Delirious is filmed from the perspective of Mary , who observes the changing love between her two teenage friends, Pauline and Victoria... |
Pauline 'Paulie' Oster | |
| 2002 | Slap Her... She's French Slap Her... She's French Slap Her… She's French, shown in the United States as She Gets What She Wants, is a 2002 Winchester Films teen comedy, directed by Melanie Mayron and starring Piper Perabo.-Plot:... |
Genevieve Le Plouff | Alternative title: She Gets What She Wants |
| Followers | Iris | ||
| 2003 | The i Inside The i Inside The I Inside is a 2003 psychological thriller directed by Roland Suso Richter. It was written by Michael Cooney based on his own play Point of Death. This film has no connection with the science-fiction novel, The I Inside, by Alan Dean Foster.... |
Anna | |
| Cheaper by the Dozen Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) Cheaper by the Dozen is a 2003 American comedy film about a family with 12 children . The film takes its title from the 1948 biography of the same name of Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth and their 12 children, but other than the title and the concept of a family with 12 children,... |
Nora Baker | Nominated — Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Liplock Shared with Ashton Kutcher Ashton Kutcher Christopher Ashton Kutcher , best known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, former fashion model and comedian, best known for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show... |
|
| 2004 | Perfect Opposites | Julia Bishop | |
| George and the Dragon | Princess Lunna | Also known as "Dragon Sword" | |
| 2005 | Perception | Jen | |
| The Cave The Cave (film) The Cave is a 2005 horror film, directed by Bruce Hunt. It stars Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian, Morris Chestnut, Marcel Iureş, Lena Headey, Rick Ravanello, Piper Perabo and Daniel Dae Kim.-Plot:... |
Charlie | ||
| Edison Edison (film) Edison , is a 2005 American thriller film written and directed by David J. Burke, starring Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake, and Kevin Spacey.... |
Willow Summerfield | Direct-to-video Direct-to-video Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television... |
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| Good Morning Baby Good Morning Baby Good Morning Baby is a short film starring Piper Perabo and is based on a non-fiction piece by Courtney Lochner.-Plot:Gabriella is a woman who is living in New York, having gotten a freelance job at a magazine for two months... |
Gabriella | ||
| Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a 2005 film produced by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to the family comedy film Cheaper by the Dozen . Shawn Levy, the director of the first film, did not return as director for this sequel, which was instead directed by Adam Shankman . Levy was a producer of the film... |
Nora Baker-McNulty | ||
| Imagine Me & You Imagine Me & You Imagine Me & You is a 2005 British-American comedy-romance film written and directed by Ol Parker. It centres on the relationship between Rachel, played by Piper Perabo and Luce, played by Lena Headey, who meet on Rachel's wedding day. The movie takes its title from a line in the song "Happy... |
Rachel | ||
| 2006 | 10th & Wolf 10th & Wolf 10th & Wolf is a 2006 film about the Mafia directed by Robert Moresco. It is based on a true story of a mob war in South Philadelphia. The film stars James Marsden, Giovanni Ribisi and Brad Renfro and features appearances by Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Piper Perabo, Lesley Ann Warren, Tommy Lee,... |
Brandy | |
| The Prestige The Prestige (film) The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Christopher Nolan, with a screenplay adapted from Christopher Priest's 1995 novel of the same name. The story follows Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, rival stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century... |
Julia McCullough | ||
| First Snow First Snow (2007 film) First Snow is a 2006 thriller starring Guy Pearce and directed by Mark Fergus. The film was released on March 23, 2007.-Plot:Jimmy Starks is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break, but when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a soothsayer named Vacaro First Snow is... |
Deirdre | ||
| Karas: The Prophecy | Yurine | Voice | |
| 2007 | Because I Said So Because I Said So (film) Because I Said So is a 2007 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann and starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Lauren Graham, Piper Perabo and Stephen Collins. It was released on February 2, 2007.-Plot:... |
Mae Wilder | |
| In Vivid Detail | Leslie | ||
| 2008 | Beverly Hills Chihuahua Beverly Hills Chihuahua Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a 2008 family comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is directed by Raja Gosnell and released on October 3, 2008... |
Rachel Ashe Lynn | |
| The Lazarus Project | Lisa Garvey | ||
| 2009 | Carriers Carriers (film) Carriers is a 2009 American horror film about four people fleeing a viral pandemic. It was written and directed by Àlex Pastor and David Pastor and stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp.- Plot :... |
Bobby | |
| Sordid Things | Tabitha White | ||
| 2010 | Ashes | Bettina | |
| 2012 | Looper | Suzie | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2007 | House House (TV series) House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in... |
Honey | 1 episode |
| 2008 | The Prince of Motor City | Meg Riley | Television movie |
| 2009 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama... |
Calista Haslum | Episode "Folie a Deux" |
| 2010–present | Covert Affairs Covert Affairs Covert Affairs is a USA Network television series starring Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham. The one-hour drama premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The show concluded its first season on September 14, 2010 and was renewed for a second season on August 19, 2010. The second season began airing on... |
Annie Walker | Lead role Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama Series |