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Mena Suvari: Los Angeles
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Shooting on location in Europe is a long way from Suvari's humble beginnings. Brought up in South Carolina, her Estonian father is a retired psychiatrist and her Greek mother a nurse. Hardly the background conducive of acting. But Suvari, in trying to explain how or why she became interested in the profession says that, as a kid, she "merely fell into it and had fun with it." Her family was persuaded by Mena to relocate to Los Angeles in order to pursue her dream of becoming an actor, "but it had nothing to do with this idea of being famous, but the work."
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Suvari gave up her long hair and shocked the world by sporting a Britney-style bald head in June this year. But rest assured, she did it with a clear purpose and not while being intoxicated with any illegal substance. In fact, she says she fulfilled a long-standing ambition by losing her hair. "I was really excited to get to shave my head - it’s something I’d wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity for a girl" she stated, and the excuse in question is a movie adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s Garden of Eden which she was shooting at the time in Spain.
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When Mena was thirteen, she got her first taste of acting in a Rice-a-Roni commercial. At the age of nineteen, she was in her first film, called "Nowhere", about a group of high schoolers living strange lives in Los Angeles.
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