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Piper Lisa Perabo born October 31, 1976 is an American actress. Following the success of the comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly (2000) she starred in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), its sequel Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige (2006), Angel Has Fallen (2019) and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in USA Network's spy drama series Covert Affairs as CIA Agent Annie Walker.
Early life
Born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Toms River, New Jersey, Perabo is the child of Mary Charlotte a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a lecturer in poetry at Ocean County College. She is of English, German, and Irish (father) and Norwegian (mother) descent; her surname is sometimes erroneously described as Portuguese.
Perabo's parents named her after actress Piper Laurie. She is the eldest of three children, with two brothers, Noah and Adam. She graduated from Toms River High School North in 1994, and earned a bachelor's degree in theater from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1998. In 1996, she attended the Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Program. She also studied Latin, physics and poetry in her final year.
Perabo was first noticed a year before she graduated from college. She was visiting her then-boyfriend in New York City, and accompanied him to an audition. Casting director Dennis Fitzgerald saw her and asked her to read for a role. She was not cast, but when Fitzgerald discovered she had no representation, he made phone calls on Perabo's behalf and found her an agent.
In 2013, Perabo became engaged to director and writer Stephen Kay; they married on July 26, 2014, in New York City. Perabo is the stepmother of Kay's daughter.
Perabo has been close friends with actress Lena Headey since they worked together in the 2005 films The Cave and Imagine Me & You. She speaks fluent French, advocates for LGBT rights and women's political leadership, and serves on the advisory board of VoteRunLead. She co-owns Employees Only, a Prohibition-themed bar in the West Village that opened in 2005, and Jacques Wife Freda, a SoHo restaurant that opened in 2012.
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