piper perabo wikipedia biography

piper perabo wikipedia biography

piper perabo wiki : Piper Lisa Perabo ( born October 31, 1976) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for playing CIA Agent Annie Walker in the spy drama series Covert Affairs, which ran on the USA Network for five seasons between 2010 and 2014, receiving a Golden Globe nomination. Since her breakthrough starring role in Coyote Ugly (2000), Perabo has appeared in films such as Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige (2006), and Looper (2012).

Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a lecturer in poetry at Ocean County College.She is of English, German, Irish, Italian (father) and Norwegian (mother) descent; while her surname is sometimes mistakenly described as Portuguese, it originates in Italy and was first recorded in 1491 in Milan. For prominent members of the original Italian family Perabò, see the Villa Perabò in Varese.Members of the Italian Perabo family emigrated to Germany, from where Piper Perabo's paternal grandfather's family came.She grew up in Toms River, New Jersey.

Perabo's parents named her after actress Piper Laurie, although "Piper" was actually Laurie's stage name. She is the eldest of three children with two brothers, Noah (born 1979) and Adam (born 1981). She graduated from Toms River High School North in 1994,[9] 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 college. 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 did not have any representation, she made phone calls on Perabo's behalf and found her an agent.

In 2013, she became engaged to Stephen Kay, director and writer of film and television. They married on July 26, 2014 in New York City.

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 for LGBT rights and women's political leadership and serves on the Advisory Board of VoteRunLead. 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.

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