"Megan Fox"
Date of Birth: May 16, 1986
Place of Birth: Rockwood, Tennessee, USA
Mini-bio: A slender, olive-skinned actress whose elegant beauty is somewhat offset by a collection of vivid tattoos (including a portrait of Marilyn Monroe on her right forearm and the King Lear quote "We all laugh at gilded butterflies" on her right shoulder blade), Megan Fox knew she wanted to be an actress from age three, and never once considered another line of work. A native of Memphis, TN, Fox began taking dance lessons when she was five years old and continued perfecting her graceful movements even after her family relocated to Florida five years later. At 13, the aspiring starlet enrolled in modeling and acting classes. It didn't take long for all of Fox's hard work to pay off, with a role in the 2001 Olsen twins comedy Holiday in the Sun marking the ambitious actress' official screen debut. Over the course of the next few years, Fox became a frequent fixture on television thanks to roles on What I Like About You, Two and a Half Men, and Hope & Faith. In 2004, Fox would torment a fledgling Lindsay Lohan in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, though it was Fox's performance as a human caught in the middle of an epic robot battle that would truly prove her calling card to Hollywood. Cast as the love interest of Shia LaBeouf in Michael Bay's 2007 blockbuster Transformers, Fox turned more than a few heads while fighting for the future of the human race. In 2008, Fox could be spotted opposite Kirsten Dunst, Simon Pegg, Jeff Bridges, and Gillian Anderson in the Robert B. Weide-directed comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.
--- Megan Fox
"I think what I regret is that I would rather do something like that when I was a more established actress and I really had proven myself first. Now, people are still unsure whether I can act or not. I just don't want to be one of those girls who are playing off the show's popularity."
--- Megan Fox
Basically, she started her career at the age of 16, after winning several awards in modelling contests in which she participated, such as the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention, in South Carolina.
Her film career breakthrough started with the movie Holiday In the Sun where she co-starred along side the Olsen twins, as a rival of one of the twins, Ashley Olsen. It was only the start, as she continued playing only in TV-Series as Ocean Ave. What I Like About You (only 1 episode), and Two and a Half Men (as well 1 episode).
She returned to movies, playing in the teen comedy: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) in which Lindsay Lohan was in the leading role. After this, Megan played again a small role in the one season TV series The Help, until her best performance in a TV Series playing Sydney Shanowski in the Emmy Nominated TV Series: Hope & Faith (2003).
I was pretty excited. I remember, when they first called me to audition for it, I didn’t understand. Because, like I said, I wasn’t a huge Transformers fan, I got it confused with like the other robots that had people in them. (Power Rangers)
--- Megan Fox
After some average roles in movies and TV Series it was the time for her big coming-out in the cinematography world. In 2007 she was cast as the lead actress in the highly anticipated Transformers movie, based on the toy and cartoon saga with the same name, in which she played Shia LaBoeuf's love interest, in the role of Mikaela Banes.
It was only the beginning of a prolific career, in which she soon was approached to play in movies as How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) and Whore (2008).
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