Mena Alexandra Suvari Bio

Suvari was born in Newport on 13 February 1979. She was born in Newport. Suvari is the daughter of Candice (nee Chambers), and Ando Suvari who is a psychiatrist. The mother of Suvari is Greek, and her father is Parnu Estonian. Three of her brothers older than her are AJ, Sulev and Juri. When she was a teenager Suvari began modeling for Millie Lewis Models & Talent. Shortly after Suvari was featured in an Rice-A-Roni commercial. The family eventually relocated to Charleston, South Carolina where her siblings attended The Citadel. Suvari was contemplating the possibility of becoming an astronaut, archaeologist, or doctor however, a modeling agency came to Ashley Hall the school for girls that was all-girls to offer classes. Suvari had been performing for five years, while modeling for Wilhelmina which is a New York-based modeling agency. Suvari relocated to California in 1997, and she was a graduate of Providence High School in Burbank. Suvari began acting at the age of fifteen, and was a guest on TV shows such as Boy Meets World, and ER. Apart from appearing in a number of episodes of High Incident, she also was an individual with HIV in Chicago Hope's single-episode show. In the role of Zoe in the 1997 independent drama that focused on the coming of age drama Nowhere, which was directed by Gregg Araki, and starring James Duval and Rachel True, Heather Graham and Ryan Phillippe She moved from film to television. In 1997, she appeared as an actress supporting in the film of independent filmmakers Snide and Prejudice. She was also in the action thriller Kiss the Girls opposite Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd. Then, she appeared in the drama for independent filmmakers Slums in Beverly Hills as the teenage neighbor of an Jewish girl who is trying to find her way in the world of the latter part of the 1970s. The film premiered with a limited release and earned a devoted following. Suvari also appeared on the set of Slums as a teen neighbor of an Israeli girl trying to make her way in the latter part of the 1970s. In the sequel to the horror film The Rage 2 (1999) she played a teen suicide victim. She also played the daughter and the investigator of the National Transportation Safety Board in the NBC mini-series Atomic Train (1999). Both films were criticised by critics.