Mena Suvari

Acting

Born Feb 13, 1979

From Newport, Rhode Island, USA

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.

Mena Suvari

Known For

American Pie

American Beauty

American Pie 2

American Reunion

Reagan

Kiss the Girls

Rumor Has It...

Factory Girl

Domino

Sugar & Spice

Filmography — Acting

American Pie

American Beauty

American Pie 2

American Reunion

Reagan

Kiss the Girls

Rumor Has It...

Factory Girl

Domino

Sugar & Spice

Prey

Psych: The Movie

Spun

Nowhere

Beauty Shop

Day of the Dead

The Opposite Sex

Fireflies at El Mozote

Loser

Vampires of the Velvet Lounge

The Rage: Carrie 2

Brooklyn Rules

Breakwater

Ick

What Lies Below

The Wrecker

Stuck

The Musketeer

Sonny

Caffeine

Trauma

The Dresden Sun

Don't Tell a Soul

Slums of Beverly Hills

American Pie: Revealed

You May Not Kiss the Bride

Edmond

Beyond the Rush

The Accursed

Don't Blink

American Virgin

Hunt Club

Badge of Honor

Standing Still

The Dog Problem

Stalkers

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Snide and Prejudice

I'll Be Home for Christmas

American Beauty: Look Closer...

Becks

Back Home Again

No Surrender

Locked In

Unbearable Christmas

Restitution

Strobe

Grace and Grit

Down the Arm of God

Garden of Eden

Devoted

Paradise Cove

Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party

Twisted Sister

The Knot

All You Need Is Blood

The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson