Piper Lisa Perabo (Listen/ˈpɛrəˈboʊ/; born October 31, 1976) is an American stage, film, and television actress. Since her breakthrough role in Coyote Ugly (2000), she has appeared in films such as Lost and Delirious (2001), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige (2006), Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008), and Looper (2012). Between 2010 and 2014 she played Annie Walker on the USA Network series Covert Affairs, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

Biography

In 2013, she became engaged to Stephen Kay, director and writer of film and television. They married on 26 July 2014 in New York City.

Perabo has been close friends with actress Lena Headey since they starred together in the 2005 films The Cave and Imagine Me & You. She speaks fluent French and is an advocate for LGBT rights. She is the part-owner of the prohibition-themed bar, Employees Only, in West Village, Manhattan, which opened in 2005, and the restaurant, Jack's Wife Freda, in SoHo, Lower Manhattan, which opened in 2012.

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