Piper Perabo

She also has a brother named Noah Perabo, who is also an actor. In 2003, she took on the major role of playing Julie McNamara in the controversial television drama Nip/Tuck based on the lives of plastic surgeons. Her father is Portuguese and her mother is Norwegian. Richardson expressed sympathy with Marie-Antoinette's undeserved fate, something which she tried to convey in the film. However, it was a critical failure: "an endless illustrated Harlequin paperback of mawkish backstory and corset-popping purple prose", according to Jessica Winter in the Village Voice, though Richardson's performance was listed among the "incidental pleasures" of the film by Roger Ebert and described as a "sly, commanding performance that reflects a marvelous understanding of this notorious character" by Salon.com. She graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University in 1998. This was a lavish costume drama based on a scandal in the final days of the French monarchy, when Marie-Antoinette's reputation was trashed by a confidence trickster, who absconded with a lavish diamond necklace which she had purchased using the Queen's name but without her knowledge. Her parents named her after Piper Laurie. Thus, she secured the role of that queen in the 2001 film The Affair of the Necklace.

Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1977 in Toms River, New Jersey, USA) is an American movie actress. Later that year she was modelling on a necklace, when director Charles Shyer noticed her resemblance to doomed 18th-century royal Marie Antoinette. Studied at the LaMamma Stage Theater in New York, and was cast in 2 low budget art films :"Single Spaced" and "Knuckleface Jones" (can be seen at http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/atom_1198 ). Two years later she played opposite Mel Gibson in the successful film, The Patriot loosely based on the American Revolution. Vegetarian. In 1998 in the popular television drama The Echo she played sultry Amanda Powell. Likes classical music and literature. In 1996 she played the fashion designer Anita in the popular Disney film 101 Dalmatians opposite Glenn Close as Cruella deVil.

as Karen Sympathy, FBI. She later appeared as a fictional Finnish princess, Anna, in the 1991 comedy King Ralph. Two years later, she appeared as Lady Chatterley in a televison drama of the same title. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) .. After an early leading role in Peter Greenaway's cult success Drowning by Numbers, her first major role in front of a mass audience was as Joanna Farley in a 1989 television episode of Poirot, the Agatha Christie-based detective series. as Violet Sanford. She is the daughter of screen legend Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson, the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave, sister of Natasha Richardson and niece of Lynn Redgrave. Joely Richardson appeared as an extra at the age of three in the 1968 version of The Charge of the Light Brigade directed by her father. Coyote Ugly (2000) .. Joely Richardson (born 9 January 1965) is a British actress, who was born into a theatrical family.

as Pauline 'Paulie' Oster. Lost and Delirious (2001) .. as Genevieve LePlouff. She's French (2002) ..

Slap Her.. as Nora Baker. Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) .. as Julia.