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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1979-02-13 (46 years old)

Place of Birth

Newport, Rhode Island, USA

Mena Suvari

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.

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Known For

Acting

2024

Prey as Sue
Ick as Staci
Reagan as Jane Wyman
Holy Smokes as Mommy

2023

2022

2021

Back Home Again as Mena Vulpes (voice)
Fourth Grade as Barbara
Locked In as Maggie
Paradise Cove as Tracey
Grace and Grit as Treya Wilber

2020

The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson as Nicole Brown Simpson
What Lies Below as Michelle Wells

2019

Apparition as Anna Collins
Tamron Hall as Self - Guest

2018

Becks as Elyse
American Woman as Kathleen

2017

Psych: The Movie as Allison Cowley

2016

Justice League Action as Killer Frost (voice)

2015

Badge of Honor as Jessica Dawson
South of Hell as Maria Abascal

2014

Don't Blink as Tracy
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)

2013

Stalkers as Ivy Hinks
Lakewood Plaza Turbo as Enid / Ginger (voice)

2012

American Reunion as Heather
The Knot as Sarah
Chicago Fire as Isabella

2011

Restitution as Heather
No Surrender as Amelia Davis
American Horror Story as Elizabeth Short
The Cape as Tracey Jerrod / Dice

2010

The Talk as Self

2009

2008

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh as Phlox Lombardi
Sex and Lies in Sin City as Sindy Murphy
Garden of Eden as Catherine Bourne
Day of the Dead as Sarah Bowman

2007

Stuck as Brandi Boski

2006

Factory Girl as Richie Berlin
Orpheus as Sue Ellen
Caffeine as Vanessa
Psych as Allison Cowley

2005

Rumor Has It... as Annie Huttinger
Domino as Kimmie
Beauty Shop as Joanne
Edmond as Prostitute

2004

Trauma as Charlotte

2003

2002

Sonny as Carol

2001

American Pie 2 as Heather
The Musketeer as Francesca Bonacieux
Sugar & Spice as Kansas Hill

2000

Loser as Dora Diamond
American Virgin as Katrina

1999

American Beauty as Angela Hayes
American Pie as Heather
The Rage: Carrie 2 as Lisa Parker
Atomic Train as Grace Seger

1998

Slums of Beverly Hills as Rachel Hoffman

1997

Nowhere as Zoe
Kiss the Girls as Coty Pierce
Snide and Prejudice as Geli Raubal
The View as Self
The View as Self - Guest

1994

ER as Laura-Lee Armitage

1993

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1953

The Oscars as Self

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Production

2020

2007

Stuck as Associate Producer