Mena Suvari
Known For
Acting
Born
1979-02-13 in Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Biography
Mena Alexandra Suvari (born February 13, 1979) is an American actress, producer, fashion designer, and model. She's best known for her roles as Angela Hayes in American Beauty, Heather in the American Pie film series, Coty Pierce in Kiss the Girls, Edie on HBO's Six Feet Under (for which she earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination), Francesca Bonacieux in The Musketeer (2001), Joanne in Beauty Shop, Annie Huttinger in Rumor Has It..., Isabella on the second season of NBC's Chicago Fire, Maria Abascal on WEtv's South of Hell, and Kathleen on Paramount's dramedy American Woman. After beginning her career as a model and guest-starring on several television shows, she made her film debut in the 1997 drama Nowhere. She rose to international prominence with her appearances in the critically acclaimed drama American Beauty (1999), for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Her other notable film credits include Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), Loser (2000), Sugar & Spice (2001), Sonny (2002), Spun (2003), Trauma (2004), Domino (2005), Factory Girl (2006), Brooklyn Rules, Stuck (both 2007), Day of the Dead (2008), and You May Not Kiss the Bride (2010). She also portrayed Elizabeth Short in the anthology series American Horror Story: Murder House (2011), and reprised the part in American Horror Story: Apocalypse (2018). She has been a model for Lancôme cosmetics and print ads for Lancôme Paris Adaptîve, as well as a long-time supporter and activist for the Starlight Children's Foundation and the African Medical and Research Foundation. She is married and has one child. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mena Suvari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Chicago Fire
as Isabella
American Horror Story
as Elizabeth Short
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
Psych
as Allison Cowley
ER
as Laura-Lee Armitage
The View
as Self
The View
as Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
Clarence
as Cynthia / Video Game Voice (voice)
Clarence
as Cynthia (voice)
Clarence
as Cynthia / Finsy (voice)
Clarence
as Cynthia / Store Clerk / Grandma (voice)
Clarence
as Cynthia / Baby (voice)
Six Feet Under
as Edie
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
Boy Meets World
as Laura
Boy Meets World
as Hilary
Chicago Hope
as Ivy Moore
The Oscars
as Self