Even before starring in any
movies, Piper had been studying acting and performing in several theatre productions
at school. After University, she moved to New York and was later cast in her first
movie - a short film called Single Spaced, where she played The Dame. Her first
big role came after that, where she played the girlfriend of a wannabe rapper
in Whiteboyz. She also did another short film at that time too called Knuckleface
Jones. 2000 was a big year for her, she was cast in The Adventures of Rocky &
Bullwinkle as one of the lead characters, FBI agent Karen Sympathy. And the break-out
role that really got her recognized and shot her into the spotlight was in Coyote
Ugly. She played Violet Sanford aka 'Jersey', who moves to New York to persue
her dream of becoming a songwriter. She had to take lessons in voice, guitar,
piano and bartending to prepare for the role. And despite the movie not doing
as well as it should have in theatres, she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music
Moment for "One Way or Another".
In
2001 she starred in a great independent Canadian movie called Lost and Delirious.
She played a boarding school student who falls in love with another girl. The
next year she starred as a French exchange student in Slap Her, She's French.
It got shelved in North America and has only been released mostly in Europe so
far. After what seemed like a long wait, we got to see her again in 2003, where
she had a small role as the oldest daughter in Cheaper by the Dozen. The movie
also starred Steve Martin, Ashton Kutcher & Bonnie Hunt.
Some
people might be wondering what happened to her, since not too many of her movies
have gotten wide releases lately, but she's finished 5 movies in the past couple
years - The I Inside, Perfect Opposites, George & the Dragon, Edison, and
recently a thriller called Prime Evil.
View
Piper Perabo Nude Gallery