Rachael Leigh Cook

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Rachael Leigh Cook
Birth name	Rachael Leigh Cook
Born	October 4 1979 (1979-10-04) (age 30) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Occupation	actress
Years active	1995 - present
Spouse(s)	Daniel Gillies (August 14, 2004 - present)
Parents	Thomas H. and JoAnn Cook
Official site	RachaelLeighCook.com

Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress. She came to fame after her role in the 1999 teen romantic comedy, She's All That, and has since appeared mostly in lower-profile films.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 Trivia 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Cook was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Thomas H. Cook, a social worker and former stand-up comic, and JoAnn, a cooking instructor and weaver.^[1] Cook attended school at Laurel Springs School and Minneapolis South High School. She began working as a print model at the age of 10, most notably in nationwide advertisements for Target and appearing on the boxes of Milk-Bone dog biscuits for medium sized dogs.

[edit] Career

At the age of fourteen, Cook began auditioning for acting work. Her modeling agency sent her to read for a short film, 26 Summer Street (1996). She first gained national attention when she was featured in a memorable This is Your Brain on Drugs public-service television advertisement, in which she proceeds to destroy a kitchen with a frying pan as she listed the things that drugs harms (in 1998). Cook began her feature film career some years earlier, debuting in The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) as shy 13 year old baby-sitter Mary Anne Spier. The movie was based on Ann M. Martin's book series of the same name.

Cook's two highest-profile lead roles to date have been in the films She's All That (1999) and Josie and the Pussycats (2001). Cook has also appeared in a number of independent films and in the 2005 television miniseries Into the West.

In 2000, she was the cover girl for the premier issue of FHM US (March/April issue). Cook also provided the voice for Chelsea Cunningham on the Kids' WB animated series Batman Beyond in the episode "Last Resort" and in the animated film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. In 2002, she was ranked #26 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World".

Cook has provided the voice of Tifa Lockhart in the video games Kingdom Hearts II and Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-, as well as the CG movie, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. She also starred in the video for New Found Glory's 2002 single, "Dressed to Kill". Cook's latest voice-over role is for the video game, Yakuza, where she voices the role of Reina, a beautiful barkeep. She has also appeared in Daniel Powter's Love You Lately.

Cook owns her own production company, called Ben's Sister Productions (in reference to her younger brother, an aspiring filmmaker). Cook eventually stepped away from the spotlight to focus on spending time with friends and family. She later returned to mainstream films when she signed on to a new casting agency. Cook was later cast in a role in the big screen adaptation of Nancy Drew, the female lead in the independent sports drama The Final Season, and playing a small supporting lead in Blonde Ambition.

[edit] Personal life

Cook has dated actors Vincent Kartheiser, Ryan Reynolds, Shane West, Rider Strong and Colin Hanks. She is now married to actor Daniel Gillies. Cook, a vegetarian,^[2] lives mostly in Los Angeles with her 3 dogs, but frequently goes back to visit her family in Minnesota.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
	The Baby-Sitters Club	Mary Anne Spier
1996	Carpool	Kayla
1997	The House of Yes	Young Jacqueline "Jackie-O"	minor role
1998	The Eighteenth Angel	Lucy Stanton	direct-to-video
	The Hairy Bird (also Strike! or All I Wanna Do)	Abigail 'Abby' Sawyer
	Dawson's Creek	Devon	Guest Role (Season 2 Episode 13 "The Leading Lady")
1999	The Bumblebee Flies Anyway	Cassie	made-for-television
	She's All That	Laney Boggs	Lead Role
2000	Get Carter	Doreen
	Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker	Chelsea Cunningham	voice
2001	Texas Rangers	Caroline Dukes
	Josie and the Pussycats	Josie McCoy
	Blow Dry	Christina Robertson
	AntiTrust	Lisa Calighan
2002	29 Palms	The Waitress	direct-to-video
	Tangled	Jenny Kelley
2003	11:14	Cheri
	Scorched	Shmally	limited release
	The Big Empty	Ruthie
	Tempo	Jenny Travile	direct-to-video
2004	Stateside	Dori Lawrence
	My First Wedding	Vanessa
2005	Into the West	Clara Wheeler	Miniseries
2006	Final Fantasy VII Advent Children	Tifa Lockhart	voice
	Matters of Life and Death	Emily Jennings
2007	Blonde Ambition	Haley
	Nancy Drew	Jane Brighton
2008	Antique	Samantha
	Twilight	Alice Cullen	possibly not verified

[edit] Trivia

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• She has appeared in numerous amounts of episodes of the Seth Green created comedy, Robot Chicken.

• Interestingly, she did the voice of some characters in the episode of Robot Chicken that included a parody of Final Fantasy VII, which involved characters from the game including Cloud Strife, Sephiroth and Tifa Lockhart, for which in the recent adaptations she has portrayed the voice of. However in this parody there were no voices but simply text like in the original game.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Rachael Leigh Cook at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview, 2005, JAM Movies
• Interview, 10/05/00, Mr. Showbiz
• Collection of Cook interviewsde:Rachael Leigh Cook

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