![]() In 2019 she co-starred with Idris Elba in the Netflix comedy Turn Up Charlie, and has moved onto a recurring role on Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. ![]() Perabo filled the ensuing decade with films in a variety of genres, including the family-friendly hit Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel), horror thriller The Cave, rom-com Imagine Me & You, the haunting Christopher Nolan drama The Prestige, and the sci-fi action movie Looper. The longtime political activist played a CIA agent on the USA drama Covert Affairs for five seasons, earning a Golden Globe nomination in 2011. The Ohio University grad broke out of the acting pack as Violet, an aspiring singer who leaves home in New Jersey for the wilds of New York to pursue her dreams-and who gets a "second audition" to be a Coyote Ugly bartender after she impressively diffuses simmering tensions between two rowdy patrons. Like 2019's Hustlers(minus the criminal enterprise), Coyote Ugly was inspired by a 1997 article in GQwritten by Elizabeth Gilbert ( Eat, Pray, Love) about her experience as a bartender at the famously hands-on drinking establishment. Though it was largely filmed on sets in L.A., the bar in the movie is based on a real-life chain of saloons, starting with the flagship Coyote Ugly in New York City that was opened by NYU alum Liliana Lovell, who followed her heart into bartending rather than take a job on Wall Street. It's been 22 years since the romantic dramedy full of dancing, singing, high-heeled boots and bellybuttons hit theaters, making bar-top dancing and wielding a water gun like it's high noon in the desert look like the most fun you can possibly have at a job, so long as you've got your girls by your side and a plan that doesn't involve warding off drunken frat brothers forever. Personal replies will not be provided.Welcome to Coyote Ugly, where the fierce, sexy bartenders call the shots and the studded leather pants flow like wine. ![]() Have a question? Email us at Please include your name and town. Perabo can now be seen starring in the USA Network series "Covert Affairs." Rimes's latest album, "Spitfire," was released on June 4. "Coyote Ugly," and its soundtrack album, were surprise hits, and helped turn Perabo and Rimes into stars. Rimes had released a few albums by that point, but her success had been limited to the country-music scene. Prior to getting the film's lead role, Perabo's biggest role was a supporting turn in the live-action "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle" earlier in 2000, which would have provided a bigger boost to her career had anybody bothered to see it. The film helped to launch both young artists to stardom. "When they finished the film, they felt like my voice isn't really the right type of voice for the character." "My real singing voice is low, and LeAnn has this kind of big, belter, soprano voice," Perabo said in an interview with pop-culture website Radio Free Entertainment. Though Piper Perabo reportedly has a fairly good set of pipes, the producers nonetheless brought in a ringer for her role in the 2000 sleeper hit, "Coyote Ugly."Īll of the songs Perabo's character performs in the film, about a shy young songwriter who moves to New York to chase her dream and finds it while working at a wild, women-run bar, were performed by country-pop star LeAnn Rimes.
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