| Megan Denise Fox was born May 16, 1986 in Tennessee. Fox is of Irish, French, and Native American ancestry, and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to Darlene and Franklin Fox. She was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school for 12 years. Fox's parents divorced when she was young and she and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather, Tony Tonachio. She said that the two were "very strict" and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house. She lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself. Megan began her training in drama and dance at the age of 5 and, at the age of 10, moved to Florida where she continued her training and finished school. When she was 13 years old, Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. At age 17, she tested out of school via correspondence in order to move to Los Angeles. Fox said of high school that she was never popular and that "everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn’t like me for that."
In 2004, she made her film debut in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen co-starring opposite Lindsay Lohan, playing the supporting role of Carla Santini, a rival of Lola (Lohan). Fox was also cast in a regular role on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski, replacing Nicole Paggi.
In 2007, Fox won the lead female role of Mikaela Banes in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, based on the toy and cartoon saga of the same name. Fox reprised her role as Mikaela Banes in the Transformer sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. In between Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon, Fox had her first lead role playing the title character in Jennifer's Body, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. Fox will not reprise her role as Mikaela Banes in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Fox has been involved with actor Brian Austin Green since 2004, having first met on the set of Hope & Faith when she was 18 and he was 30. Fox and Green were engaged again in June 2010, and on June 24, 2010, the two wed in a private ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii.
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2012 This Is Forty
2010 Passion Play: Lily Luster
2009 Jennifer's body: Jennifer Check
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Mikaela Banes
2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Sophie Maes
2007 Transformers: Mikaela Banes
2004-2006 Hope & Faith (TV series): Sydney Shanowski
– Faith Knows Squat (2006) – Hope's Float (2006) – Jay Date (2006) – Old Faithful (2006) – The Big Shanowski (2006)
2004 Crimes of Fashion (TV movie): Candace
2004 The Help (TV series): Cassandra Ridgeway
– Ollie Shares (2004) – Dwayne Gets a Cold (2004) – Pilot (2004)
2004 Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen: Carla
2004 Two and a Half Men (TV series): Prudence
– Camel Filters and Pheremones (2004)
2003 What I Like About You (TV series): Shannon
– Like a Virgin (Kinda) (2003)
2003 Bad Boys II: Stars-and-Stripes Bikini Kid Dancing Under Waterfall
2002-2003 Ocean Ave. (TV series): Ione Starr
2001 Holiday in the Sun (video): Brianna |
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