Mena Suvari

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Mena Suvari at Lambertz Monday Night in February 2016.
Mena Suvari at the premiere of her film American Pie in 2012 .
Mena Suvari 2007

Mena Alexandra Suvari (born February 13, 1979 in Newport , Rhode Island ) is an American actress , fashion designer and model . She gained fame with her roles as Angela Hayes in American Beauty (1999) and as Heather in three films in the American Pie series (1999, 2001, 2012).

Life

Suvari was born in Newport, Rhode Island, to Candice ( maiden name Chambers), a nurse , and Ando Suvari, a psychiatrist . Her mother is of Greek descent and her father is of Estonian-American descent. She has three older brothers.

At the age of twelve, Suvari first worked as a photo model, including for Oscar de la Renta , and had minor appearances in commercials. She worked with the Wilhelmina modeling agency in New York for five years . Suvari attended Providence High School in Burbank and graduated in 1997.

On March 4, 2000 she married the 17 years older German cameraman Robert Brinkmann , but the marriage was divorced in May 2005. At the end of June 2010 she married the then 25-year-old concert manager Simone Sestito in Rome . On January 13, 2012, Suvari filed for divorce again.

Career

Suvari began her acting career in the mid-1990s with appearances on television series. She has appeared in Life and Me and Emergency Room, among others. In Chicago Hope she played an HIV- infected girl named Ivy .

She had her first film role in 1997 on the side of James Duval in the film Nowhere . She then played a small role as Coty Pierce in the 1997 thriller ... because they're there to kiss with Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd . In 1998 she played a supporting role in the independent drama Mainly Beverly Hills on the side of Natasha Lyonne , her future film partner in American Pie .

In 1999 she appeared in the Oscar-winning film American Beauty , for which she received a nomination for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Most Popular Newcomer. Her performance as Angela Hayes also brought her international fame as an actress. In the same year, she played the role of Heather in the hit teenage film American Pie . The film grossed over $ 200 million worldwide. She was also seen as Lisa Parker in Carrie 2 - Revenge , the sequel to the 1976 film. In the film, she plays the best friend of Emily Bergl's character, who commits suicide.

Suvari starred alongside American Pie co-star Jason Biggs in the romantic comedy Losers (2000). Together with Biggs she also appeared in the music video Teenage Dirtbag the band Wheatus on, the title song of the film. In 2001 she appeared in The Musketeer , which was received mostly negatively by critics. She repeated her role as Heather in the sequel to American Pie, American Pie 2 (2001), which, like the first part, was a big box-office success. Suvari played cheerleader Kansas Hill in the comedy Sugar & Spice (2001) . The film flopped at the box office. The following year she starred in the independent drama Spun alongside Brittany Murphy and starred Sonny in Nicolas Cage's directorial debut alongside James Franco .

In 2004 Suvari's film Traumata was released at the Sundance Film Festival . She also took on a recurring role in the television series Six Feet Under - Edie always dies as a lesbian poet . In 2005, Suvari and the cast received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award in the category Best Acting Company in a Television Series - Drama for their ensemble performance .

Suvari played alongside Keira Knightley in Tony Scott's Dominoes (2005). The film is based on the true story of Domino Harvey . Also in 2005, she played Jennifer Aniston's sister in the love story Where Love Falls ... and the role of Joanne Marcus in the comedy Beauty Shop with Queen Latifah and Alicia Silverstone . In 2006 she starred alongside Katherine Heigl in a leading role in the romantic comedy Caffeine . In the same year she stood at the side of Sienna Miller for the biography Factory Girl in front of the camera. The film tells the story of Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol .

In 2007 she starred alongside Freddie Prinze Junior and Alec Baldwin in the crime drama Brooklyn Rules and in Stuart Gordon's thriller Stuck . In 2008 she starred in the horror film Day of the Dead . The film is a remake of the film of the same name from 1985. She played the bookseller Phlox Lombardi in A Fateful Summer . The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Suvari repeated the role of Heather in American Pie: The Reunion in 2012 . For the fourth part of the American Pie series, in addition to Suvari, all the other leading actors from the first part returned in front of the camera, after initially some unofficial sequels with other actors had been produced.

Filmography

Suvari in 2007

Movies

Video games

Series

Music videos

Web links

Commons : Mena Suvari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mena Suvari - The biography . Moviemaze.de. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
  2. ↑ Suvari got married on Fan-Lexikon.de (accessed on June 27, 2010)
  3. ^ Mena Suvari Files for Divorce . People.com. Retrieved January 13, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Suvari, Mena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suvari, Mena Alexandra (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION american actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport , Rhode Island , United States