page_title: Piper Perabo
section_title: 1997–2007: Early career and breakthrough
hierarchical_section_title: Piper Perabo / Career / 1997–2007: Early career and breakthrough
caption_attribution_description: Piper Perabo at the premiere of Looper, Toronto Film Festival 2012
context_page_description: Piper Lisa Perabo is an American actress. Following her breakthrough in the comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly, Perabo has starred in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Lost and Delirious, Cheaper by the Dozen, Imagine Me & You, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Prestige, Because I Said So, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Carriers, Looper, Black Butterfly, and Angel Has Fallen.
  Perabo is also known for her starring role as CIA Agent Annie Walker in the USA Network spy drama series Covert Affairs, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama.
context_section_description: After graduating, Perabo moved to New York, where she worked as a waitress. She also studied acting at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and had roles in various plays. She was cast in her first feature film just a month after moving to the city, Marc Levin's comedy Whiteboyz. In 2000, she was cast in the romantic musical comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly as Violet "Jersey" Sanford, for which she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment for "One Way or Another". Despite the film's mixed response from critics, it was a box office success, grossing over $113 million worldwide. She also appeared in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as FBI agent Karen Sympathy.
  After the success of Coyote Ugly, Perabo decided to focus on independent films. In 2001, she starred in an independent Canadian drama called Lost and Delirious, playing a boarding school student who falls in love with a female classmate (played by Jessica Paré). The film was met with mixed reviews, but the performances of Perabo, Paré and co-star Mischa Barton were, however, widely praised. Perabo's performance in particular received critical acclaim, which Loren King of the Chicago Tribune remarked was her "breakout performance". Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman called her "an actress of glittering ferocity" and her performance "a geyser of emotion". Jim Lane of the Sacramento News & Review said that "Perabo is a revelation, wild and fiery — it's a breakthrough performance, astonishing in its fervency" and Roger Ebert praised her performance for its sincerity and "wonderful abandon and conviction".
  The next year she starred as a French exchange student in the independent comedy Slap Her... She's French, which was shelved in North America for two years, then released under the new title She Gets What She Wants. The film was released under its original title in Europe. She had a role as the eldest Baker child, Nora, in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), a role she reprised in the film's 2005 sequel. Her other films include The I Inside (2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Edison (2005), and The Prestige (2006). She appeared as a nutritionist on the Fox show House, in an episode entitled "Resignation".
caption: Perabo at the premiere of Looper at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012
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