Piper Perabo
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1976-10-31 (48 years old)
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA
Piper Perabo
Biography
Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is a Golden Globe Award nominated American stage, film and television actress. Since her breakthrough role in Coyote Ugly (2000), she has appeared in films such as Lost and Delirious (2001), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige (2006), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008), and Looper (2012). Since 2010, she has played Annie Walker on the USA Network series Covert Affairs, for which she has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.
Early life
Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a professor of poetry at Ocean County College. She is of English, German, Irish, and Norwegian descent; while her surname is sometimes described as Portuguese, it originates in Germany, where her paternal grandfather's family came from. She grew up in Toms River, New Jersey.
Perabo's parents named her after actress Piper Laurie. She has two younger brothers: Noah (born 1979) and Adam (born 1981). She graduated from Toms River High School North in 1994, 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 university. 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 didn't have any representation, she made phone calls on Perabo's behalf and found her an agent.
Personal life 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 of LGBT rights. As of 2013, she is engaged to Stephen Kay.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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Acting
(2025)
Peak Everything
as Tina
(2020)
Spontaneous
as Angela
(2019)
Angel Has Fallen
as Leah Banning
(2018)
Tough Love
as Woman
(2017)
Black Butterfly
as Laura
(2015)
Into the Grizzly Maze
as Michelle
(2012)
Looper
as Suzie
(2011)
Ashes
as Bettina
(2009)
Carriers
as Bobby
(2009)
Sordid Things
as Tabitha White
(2008)
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Rachel Ashe Lynn
(2008)
The Lazarus Project
as Lisa Garvey
(2008)
The Prince of Motor City
as Meg Riley
(2007)
Because I Said So
as Mae
(2007)
(2007)
In Vivid Detail
as Leslie
(2006)
The Prestige
as Julia McCullough
(2006)
Imagine Me & You
as Rachel
(2006)
First Snow
as Deirdre
(2006)
10th & Wolf
as Brandy
(2005)
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
as Nora Baker-McNulty
(2005)
The Cave
as Charlie
(2005)
Edison
as Willow
(2005)
Perception
as Jen
(2005)
Good Morning Baby
as Gabriella
(2004)
George and the Dragon
as Princess Lunna
(2004)
The I Inside
as Anna
(2004)
Perfect Opposites
as Julia Bishop
(2003)
Cheaper by the Dozen
as Nora Baker
(2002)
Slap Her... She's French
as Genevieve Le Plouff
(2001)
Lost and Delirious
as Pauline 'Paulie' Oster
(2000)
Coyote Ugly
as Violet Sanford (Jersey)
(2000)
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
as Karen Sympathy
(2000)
Followers
as Girl at Party
(1999)
Whiteboyz
as Sara
(1999)
Knuckleface Jones
as That Girl
(1997)
Single Spaced
as The Dame