Born: 31 October 1976 Toms River, New Jersey
Height: 5' 7"

She graduated with a theater degree summa cum laude from Ohio University (1998). Became famous as the fish-out-of-the-water in the film Coyote Ugly. Critics and fans alike often pick her as the most redeeming aspect of a bad film, and what makes a good film great. In 2000 she was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as one of the lead characters, FBI agent Karen Sympathy. The break-out role that got wide recognition and shot her into the public eye was in Coyote Ugly, where she played Violet Sanford aka 'Jersey', who moves to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter. She had to take lessons in voice, guitar, piano and bartending to prepare for the role. Despite the movie not doing as well as it could have at the box office, she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment for "One Way or Another". In 2001, she starred in an independent Canadian movie called Lost and Delirious, playing a boarding school student who falls in love with a girl. The next year she starred as a French exchange student in Slap Her... She's French, which was shelved in North America for two years, then released under the new title She Gets What She Wants. The film was released under its original title in Europe. In 2003, she had a small role as the eldest daughter in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) which she reprised in its 2005 sequel.