• Name: Mena Suvari
  
• Birth Name: Mena Adrienne Suvari
  
• Height: 5' 4"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: American
  
• Birth Date: February 9, 1979
  
• Birth Place: Newport, Rhode Island, USA
  
• Profession: actress, model
  
• Education: Ashley Hall, all girls school, in Charleston, S.Carolina
  
•   : Providence High School in Burbank, California (class of 1997)
  
• Husband/Wife: Robert Brinkmann (cinematographer; born on November 20, 1961; married on March 18, 2000)
  
• Father: Ando Suvari (Estonian; retired psychiatrist; born in 1923)
  
• Mother: Candice Suvari (nurse; born in 1947)
  
• Brother: AJ (older) and Sulev (older) went to the Citadel and enlisted in the U.S. Army, Yuri (older, attends school in Florida)
  
• Claim to fame: as Angela Hayes on American Beauty (1999)
  

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• "It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it. I still kind of think, 'Oh, who am I?'"
• "Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart."
• "Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this." Premiere. June 2000.

• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Theatrical Motion Picture, AMERICAN BEAUTY (2000)
• Young Hollywood Awards: Breakthrough Performance - Female, AMERICAN BEAUTY (2000)

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