Biography of piper perabo

American actress (born 1976)

Piper Lisa Perabo^[1] (PERR-ə-boh; born October 31, 1976^[2]) is an American actress.

Following her breakthrough in the comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly (2000),^[3] she starred in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), its sequel Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige (2006), Angel Has Fallen (2019), and as CIA agent Annie Walker in the USA Network spy drama series Covert Affairs (2010–2014), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.^[4]

Early life

Born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Toms River, New Jersey, Perabo is the child of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a lecturer in poetry at Ocean County College.^[5][6] She is of English, German, and Irish (father) and Norwegian (mother) descent; her surname is sometimes mistakenly described as Portuguese.^[7]

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