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Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976) is an American stage, film and television actress.

Perabo was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, the daughter of Mary Charlotte (née Ulland), a physical therapist, and George William Perabo, a poetry professor at Ocean County College. She is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent. Her parents named her after actress Piper Laurie. She graduated from Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio. She has two brothers: Noah, born May 1979, and Adam, born August 1981.
In 2000, Perabo was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as FBI agent Karen Sympathy. Her next film was as Violet "Jersey" Sanford in Coyote Ugly, for which she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Music Moment for "One Way or Another".
In 2001, Perabo starred in an independent Canadian movie called Lost and Delirious, playing a boarding school student who falls in love with a female classmate. 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 role as the eldest Baker child, Nora, in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) which she reprised in its 2005 sequel.
Other recent films include The i Inside (2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Edison (2005), The Prestige (2006) and Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008). She appeared as a nutritionist on the Fox TV show House.
In June of 2009 Perabo was cast as lead actress, CIA Agent Annie Walker in the television spy series Covert Affairs on the USA Network.