CORE ENTERTAINMENT: Piper Perabo

Piper Perabo on Covert Affairs. "I'm a leap-before-you-look girl," says Piper Perabo, who plays a CIA spy on USA Network's Covert Affairs. "That's me chasing the bad guys. That's me running down the Potomac. One of the fun things about making this show is that they let me go for it.

"I know that when I'm watching an action sequence and they cut away and they show the hero from behind for the rest of the fight scene, I think, 'Oh, the actor just left and now we're watching a stunt person.' It takes me out of it. I'm willing to suffer the bumps and bruises to make the show really great."

When Covert Affairs returns for its second season tonight, Perabo will be front and center again. She plays Annie Walker, a recent recruit who speaks nine languages and seems fearless.

At the end of the first season, Annie was escaping from Sri Lanka with former boyfriend Ben Mercer (Eion Bailey). "He was shot in the final frame," Perabo says. "The premiere episode answers the question of what happens to him."

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Piper Lisa Perabo (born October 31, 1976)is a Golden Globe Award nominated 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. Piper is of Portuguese and Norwegian descent. Her parents named her after actress Piper Laurie. She has two brothers: Noah (born May 1979), and Adam (born August 1981), and graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

In 2000, Perabo was cast in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, as FBI agent Karen Sympathy. Her next film role was in Coyote Ugly as Violet 'Jersey' Sanford, 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), a role she reprised in the film's 2005 sequel.

Her other 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 2009, Perabo made her Broadway debut in the Neil LaBute play Reasons to Be Pretty. In June 2009, Perabo was cast as the lead character, CIA officer Annie Walker, in the television spy series Covert Affairs on the USA Network.

On August 20, 2010, Perabo was injured filming an episode of Covert Affairs. After the finale of the first season it was announced that the second season will begin in summer of 2011. For her work on Covert Affairs, she received a nomination for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama.