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Mena Suvari: Roles
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Commencing her show biz career as a model at age 12, Mena Suvari joined with Wilhelmina Modeling Agency for five years and modeled for Oscar de la Renta printed ads. Considering her potential career as a model, her parents took her to California where she landed on television appearing on a Rice-A-Roni TV commercial. More TV work knocked and she was seen as a guest on ABC's Boy Meets World and UPN's Minor Adjustments (1996-1997). She ... played the reoccurring role of brash Sergeant Jim Marsh's daughter on ABC's High Incident and was spotted on two medical drama series: NBC's ER and CBS' Chicago Hope (1997).
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Blonde, blue-eyed, and looking for all the world like Heather Graham's little sister, Mena Suvari made her film debut with a small role in Gregg Araki's 1997 Nowhere. The same year, Suvari, who was born in Newport, RI, on February 9, 1979, appeared in two other films, Snide & Prejudice and Kiss the Girls...Read More
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Suvari made appearances in television shows such as Boy Meets World and ER at the age of fifteen and sixteen respectively. In 1999, she starred in the Oscar-winning American Beauty and the popular American Pie. Suvari was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, for her role in American Beauty.
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Mena Suvari and her buzz cut chilled at a Malibu beach yesterday. In case you were wondering, Mena lost her hair for her role in the upcoming Ernest Hemmingway adaptation, “The Garden of Eden.”
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Nicolas Cage's crime drama Sonny (starring James Franco) and Jonas Akerlund's crime comedy Spun (with Jason Schwartzman and Mickey Rourke) were Suvari's film works in 2002. She added to her acting resume such recent films as Matthew Cole Weiss' Standing Still (with Jon Abrahams and Ethan Embry), Marc Evans' thriller Trauma (as Charlotte, Colin Firth's love obsession) and Bille Woodruff's comedy Beauty Shop (played one of Queen Latifah's clients). She ... played the reoccurring role of Claire Fisher's fellow art student, Edie, in the HBO hit series Six Feet Under.
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Mena isn't the only female star who has been forced to sacrifice their hair for a film project. Natalie Portman shaved her head for her role in sci-fi thriller 'V for Vendetta' in 2005.
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