Piper Perabo

Piper Perabo is an American film and television actress. She stars in the USA Network series Covert Affairs, where she plays Annie Walker, a CIA trainee who is promoted to a field operative.http://www.tv.com/covert-affairs/show/77661/summary.html Perabo was nominated for a 2011 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series for her work on the show.http://www.usanetwork.com/series/covertaffairs/ While filming the first season of the show in 2010, Perabo suffered a minor knee injury while performing a stunt.http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b196292_piper_perabos_not_covert_knee_injury.html

Perabo first became active with acting when she took classes at New York's LaMama Theatre.http://television.aol.com/celebs/piper-perabo/2009091/biography She attended Ohio University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in acting in 1998.http://television.aol.com/celebs/piper-perabo/2009091/biography Her debut feature film Whiteboyz debuted one year later; Perabo received a crash course in rap for the satire of hip-hop culture.http://television.aol.com/celebs/piper-perabo/2009091/biography

To prepare for her role in the 2000 film Coyote Ugly, Perabo took lessons in singing, dancing, guitar, piano and bartending.http://www.askmen.com/celebs/women/actress/52_piper_perabo.html She also played the oldest daughter in the Steve Martin film Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel Cheaper by the Dozen 2.http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026808/bio

In the 2001 indie film Lost and Delirious, Perabo played Paulie, who the All Movie Guide referred to as a “sophisticated” student at an all-girls boarding school.http://www.allmovie.com/work/lost-and-delirious-237137 The film co-starred Mischa Barton and Jessica Pare and debuted at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.http://www.allmovie.com/work/lost-and-delirious-237137 Reviewer Jim Lane of the Sacramento News & Review said that Perabo gave a “breakthrough” performance.http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=8293

Perabo was cast in the lead role of Annie Walker in Covert Affairs while she was working on a Broadway play.http://collider.com/covert-affairs-interview-piper-perabo-christopher-gorham/36818/ She told Collider.com she was drawn to the project by the pilot script and the pedigree of executive producer Doug Liman.http://collider.com/covert-affairs-interview-piper-perabo-christopher-gorham/36818/ Liman directed The Bourne Identity and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510731/

• 1999: Whiteboyz
• 2000: The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
• 2000: Coyote Ugly
• 2001: Lost and Delirious
• 2002: Slap Her...She's French
• 2002: Flowers
• 2003: Cheaper by the Dozen
• 2004: George and the Dragon
• 2005: The Cave
• 2005: Cheaper by the Dozen 2”
• 2006: '”The Prestige
• 2008: Beverly Hills Chihuahua
• 2008: “The Lazarus Project
• 2010: Covert Affairs
• 2010: Asheshttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005305/

"In America you can either do in a romantic comedies but they are usually either really romantic or really funny. But they don't get bold and that's why I like British romantic comedies." — Interview with SuicideGirls.comhttp://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Piper+Perabo/

"What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year. Willem Dafoe seems to move between kind of avante-garde theatre and film, and I think eventually that's what I'd like to do." — Interview with TV.comhttp://www.tv.com/piper-perabo/person/150377/biography.html

"I was a tomboy, growing up. But, the props are definitely better now and your mom isn’t there to stop you. I was a tomboy, jumping off the roof and stuff like that. Now, I have Chris [Gorham] and Doug [Liman], and we’re jumping off of buildings and down elevator shafts, and we’re crashing cars. They encourage us to break stuff, so I enjoy it even more." — Interview with Collider.com on doing stunts for Covert Affairshttp://collider.com/covert-affairs-interview-piper-perabo-christopher-gorham/36818/