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American Beauty, American Pie and Six Feet Under actor Mena Suvari will become the new face for non-profit, anti-smoking group Circle of Friends. Suvari, a former smoker and whose aunt died from smoking, will appear in ads for the group.
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Mena Suvari hit the big time in 1999 with sexy turns in hormonal teen comedy American Pie and Sam Mendes' Oscar-winning drama American Beauty. After playing the teenage vamp yet again in the critically reviled American Virgin and American Pie 2, she was at risk of getting typecast. From there she resolved to do films without the word 'American' in the title and even dirtied up her teeth for drug-addled drama Spun, before rolling around in ants and blood for Marc Evans' London-set psychological thriller Trauma.
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An actress who is capable to take wide range of film characters without losing the acuity in her enactment, Mena Adrienne Suvari undoubtedly has risen to be one of the most promising young stars of her generation. Named after a hotel located at the base of the pyramids in Egypt, she was born on February 13, 1979 in Newport, Rhode Island as the only daughter of Ando and Candice Suvari. Spending her early childhood in an old stone mansion together with her three older brothers, she later left her hometown at the age of nine to follow her parents moving to the U.S. Virgin Island before finally settled in Charleston, South Carolina where she attended the all-girls school of Ashley Hall. It was during this time that she was introduced to modeling which subsequently brought her to be signed by New York-based Wilhelmina agency, making this lovely girl of Estonian and Greek descent had to split her time between the two cities for five years.
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Of Estonian and Greek descent, model and actress Mena Suvari received rave reviews while playing seductive cheerleader Angela Hayes in Sam Mendes' Oscar award-winning film American Beauty (1999). Also best known for portraying virginal choirgirl Heather in the teen comedy American Pie (1999 and 2001), Suvari later appeared in more films, including The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), American Virgin (2000), Loser (2000), The Musketeer (2001) and Spun (2002).
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LET'S set the record straight about Mena Suvari. When an English director referred to the "American Beauty" star as "an immensely talented thespian," some dimwitted Internet posters thought she'd switched her sexual orientation. Then, this week, when pictures appeared of Suvari in L.A. with her hair shorn, fans wondered whether "she'd done a Britney." In fact, she was trimmed for her role in the film adaptation of Hemingway's "The Garden of Eden," which wrapped recently in Spain. Suvari is said to be spellbinding as Catherine, the new wife of young writer David (a composite of Hemingway and his friend, F. Scott Fitzgerald).
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Mena Suvari has shaved her head. The stunning actress, who had long blonde hair when she starred alongside Kevin Spacey in the Oscar-winning film 'American Beauty,' showed off her newly bald head when she met a friend for lunch in Beverly Hills last week.
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