Mena Suvari

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Biography

Recent Role:
Elizabeth Short on American Horror Story
Gender:
Female
Born:
2-9-1979
Birthplace:
Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Birth Name:
Mena Adrienne Suvari
AKA:
Mena A. Suvari
Blonde, blue-eyed, and looking for all the world like Heather Graham's little sister, Mena Suvari made her film debut with a small role in Gregg Araki's 1997 Nowhere. The same year, Suvari, who was born in Newport, RI, on February 9, 1979, appeared in two other films, Snide & Prejudice and Kiss the Girls. After another small role, in The Slums of Beverly Hills (which starred her future American Pie co-star Natasha Lyonne), Suvari landed her breakthrough role playing the sweet, virginal Heather in the 1999 sex comedy smash American Pie. The same year, the actress (who had also done television… More work on shows such as ER and Chicago Hope) won further recognition with a lead role as the teen-aged object of Kevin Spacey's middle-aged affections in the hugely acclaimed American Beauty. With yet another lead role that year, this time in the made-for-TV disaster film Atomic Train, Suvari seemed perfectly poised on the well-trod brink of stardom. Her profile received another boost in 2000, thanks to starring roles in Sugar and Spice and Loser, the latter of which saw her starring as the apple of American Pie co-star Jason Biggs' eye. That same year, the then 21-year-old actress made headlines of a different sort with her marriage to Richard Brinkman, a cinematographer 17 years her senior.

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