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Megan Fox Biography

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MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
Pseudo Megan Denise Fox
American nationality
Birth May 16, 1986 (Rockwood, Tennessee – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Megan Fox discovered her vocation as an actress very early on by taking theater and dance lessons from the age of 5, an activity she continued in Florida after a family move. Also trying her hand at modeling during her adolescence, she made her film debut in Vacances Sous Les Tropiques (2001), a family comedy starring twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen , but her first roles were mainly on television. She appears in series like My Uncle Charlie (2003) and What I Like About You (id.) and obtains a regular role in La Star de la famille (2004-2006). In the cinema, she played alongside Lindsay Lohan in the comedy Diary of a Future Star (2004).

However, it is thanks to director Michael Bay and the Transformers franchise that the young actress will truly establish herself on the front of the Hollywood scene. By starring opposite Shia LaBeouf in the first two parts of this extremely lucrative robotic saga, Megan Fox is propelled to the rank of Sex Symbol . After these big budget films, the actress made a 180° turn by accepting the title role in the film Jennifer’s Body (2009), based on a screenplay by Diablo Cody , in which she played a cheerleader who was as sexy as she was deadly.

Megan Fox also participates in An Englishman in New York and Jonah Hex , two commercial failures which do not have the honors of a release in French theaters despite their castings aligning known faces ( Jeff Bridges , Kirsten Dunst and Simon Pegg for the first, John Malkovich , Josh Brolin and Michael Fassbender for the second). In 2012, the actress returned to the screen and proved that she was also comfortable in comedies by appearing in The Dictator (in her own role), Friends With Kids and This Is 40 . She then slips into the skin of the pretty April O’Neil for the needs of the film Ninja Turtles . Given the success of the blockbuster, a sequel was released two years later .

Megan also plays a regular character in the sitcom New Girl , that of the very professional businesswoman Reagan Lucas. We next see her in Zeroville by James Franco, the war film The Battle of Jangsari , the action film Rogue and the thriller The Prey . In 2023, she headlines Expend4bles , the fourth installment of the action franchise initiated by Stallone in 2010.

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