Piper Perabo is of English, German, and Irish and Norwegian descent; her surname is sometimes mistakenly described as Portuguese.
29 Facts About Piper Perabo
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Piper Perabo is the eldest of three children with two brothers, Noah and Adam.
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Piper Perabo 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.
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Piper Perabo studied Latin, physics, and poetry in her final year.
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Piper Perabo was first noticed a year before she graduated from college.
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Piper Perabo was in New York City, visiting her then-boyfriend, and accompanied him to an audition.
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Piper Perabo 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.
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Piper Perabo studied acting at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and had roles in various plays.
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Piper Perabo was cast in her first feature film just a month after moving to the city, Marc Levin's comedy Whiteboyz.
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Piper Perabo appeared in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as FBI agent Karen Sympathy.
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The film was met with mixed reviews, but the performances of Piper Perabo, Pare and co-star Mischa Barton were widely praised.
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Piper Perabo had a role as the eldest Baker child, Nora, in Cheaper by the Dozen, a role she reprised in the film's 2005 sequel.
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In 2008, Piper Perabo co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in the family comedy film Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
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In September 2012, Piper Perabo had a supporting role, alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt, in the time travel thriller film Looper.
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Piper Perabo's character, Simone, was a former member of Matthew Perry's character's support group, who returned and became his love interest.
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Piper Perabo was scheduled to appear in three episodes, but this was increased to four.
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Piper Perabo had a starring role in the thriller Into the Grizzly Maze, which was released in 2015.
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Piper Perabo starred as Julia George in the ABC drama series Notorious.
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Piper Perabo co-starred with Antonio Banderas in the thriller film Black Butterfly, which was released in May 2017.
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In June 2018, it was announced that Piper Perabo was cast as Sara in the Netflix comedy series Turn Up Charlie.
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Piper Perabo co-starred as Angela in the 2020 dark comedy film, Spontaneous.
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In 2021, Piper Perabo joined the cast of Yellowstone as Summer Higgins, an animal rights activist and ally of John.
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In 2013, Piper Perabo became engaged to director and writer Stephen Kay; they married on July 26,2014, in New York City.
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Piper Perabo speaks fluent French, advocates for LGBT rights and women's political leadership, and serves on the advisory board of VoteRunLead.
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Piper Perabo is part owner of Employees Only, a Prohibition-themed bar in the West Village, that opened in 2005, and Jack's Wife Freda, a SoHo restaurant that opened in 2012.
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Piper Perabo was arrested for protesting Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
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Piper Perabo was arrested in November 2019 while attending one of Jane Fonda's weekly climate change protests.
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Piper Perabo endorsed Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries and regularly uses her Twitter and Instagram accounts to advocate for voter registration and voter education.
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Piper Perabo has encouraged followers to seek out VoteRiders to learn more about Voter ID requirements.