Despite the film's mixed response from critics, it was a box office success, grossing over $113 million worldwide.
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In 2000, she was cast in the romantic musical comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly as Violet "Jersey" Sanford, for which she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment for " One Way or Another". She was cast in her first feature film just a month after moving to the city, Marc Levin's comedy Whiteboyz. She also studied acting at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and had roles in various plays. Career 1997–2007: Beginning and breakthrough Īfter graduating, Perabo moved to New York, where she worked as a waitress. She was not cast, but when Fitzgerald found out that she did not have any representation, she made phone calls on Perabo's behalf and found her an agent. Casting director Denise Fitzgerald spotted her and asked her to read for a part. She was in New York City, visiting her then-boyfriend, and accompanied him to an audition.
Perabo was first noticed a year before she graduated from college. She also studied Latin, physics, and poetry in her final year. In 1996, she attended the Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Program. She graduated from Toms River High School North in 1994, and earned a bachelor's degree in theater from Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1998. She is the eldest of three children with two brothers, Noah and Adam. Perabo's parents named her after actress Piper Laurie. She is of English, German, and Irish (father) and Norwegian (mother) descent her surname is sometimes mistakenly described as Portuguese.
Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a lecturer in poetry at Ocean County College. 2.2 2008–present: Covert Affairs and other work.