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Rachael Leigh Cook - Biography |
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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. 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.
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 set 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.
She is being considered for the role of Alice Cullen in the upcoming
movie, Twilight, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer.
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, lives mostly in Los Angeles, but frequently goes back to
visit her family in Minnesota. |
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Rachael Leigh Cook - Personal Quotes |
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"If this whole acting thing
doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show."
"I'm not small, I'm space-efficient."
"I'd love to do a sequel. Even if it was 'Ernest Goes to Mars 3'- if
these girls were in it, I'd do it in a minute". [Referring to Josie
and the Pussycats (2001) in an interview she gave to TV Guide (Issue
#2505, 31 March 2001; article title "What's new, Pussycats?" by Josh
Rottenberg)]
"I would love to work with Rosario Dawson & Tara Reid again. We were
a team on the set of Josie and the Pussycats (2001), our chemistry
was great from the first day of filming & you don't really expect
that when you work with new people. I still call them everyday, like
sisters to me!"
"My height was never a factor."
"When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life
was in a real state of flux."
"Hours fly by while I'll just be in my apartment, and somehow it
will be messy later. I'll clean it up and eat cereal and watch Ricki
Lake and call friends I haven't talked to."
"Sometimes I'm just a disaster! Other times it seems like I'm one of
the most normal people I know."
"Acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was
such a challenge."
"You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next."
On Josie & the pussycats; "I guess I've done one other movie with a
group of girls (Strike), but we weren't as close."
On Josie and the pussycats; "I'm learning to play guitar. It's very
difficult, but I'm determined to do it right so I don't make anybody
mad."
"I always say that even if this were the worst movie in the world,
I'd do it again because it was such a good time."
"Once I tried highlighting my brother's hair, but I think I mixed it
wrong. It was as if someone poured kerosene on his head."
"You know, we have to take these characters who, granted, have their
separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty
two-dimensional and make them into people with flaws, with
insecurities" |
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Rachael Leigh Cook - Filmography |
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Antique (2008)
(pre-production) .... Samantha
The Golden Door (2008) (filming) .... Caitlin O' Shea
Bob Funk (2008) (post-production)
The Final Season (2007) .... Polly Hudson
"Robot Chicken" .... Evil-Lyn / ... (3 episodes, 2006-2007)
- Shoe (2007) TV Episode (voice) .... Evil-Lyn/Princess Zelda
- Lust for Puppets (2006) TV Episode (voice) .... Frankenstein's
Fiancee
- Rodigitti (2006) TV Episode (voice)
Matters of Life and Death (2007) .... Emily Jennings
All Hat (2007) .... Chrissie
Nancy Drew (2007) .... Jane Brighton
Descent (2007) (uncredited) .... Allison
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007) (VG) (voice) .... Tifa
Lockhart
Blonde Ambition (2007) .... Haley
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006) (VG) (voice: English
version) .... Tifa Lockhart
Kingdom Hearts II (2005) (VG) (voice: English version) .... Tifa
Lockhart
... aka Kingudamu hâtsu II (Japan)
Ryû ga gotoku (2005) (VG) (voice: English version) .... Reina
... aka Yakuza (USA)
"Las Vegas" .... Penny Posin (5 episodes, 2005)
- The Real McCoy (2005) TV Episode .... Penny Posin
- The Big Ed De-cline (2005) TV Episode .... Penny Posin
- Whatever Happened to Seymour Magoon? (2005) TV Episode .... Penny
Posin
- Double Down, Triple Threat (2005) TV Episode .... Penny Posin
- Fake the Money and Run (2005) TV Episode .... Penny Posin
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) (voice: English version)
.... Tifa Lockhart
"Into the West" (2005) (mini) TV Series .... Clara Wheeler
American Crime (2004) (V) .... Jesse St. Claire
Stateside (2004) .... Dori Lawrence
... aka Sinners (Germany)
Fearless (2004) (TV) .... Gaia Moore
My First Wedding (2004) .... Vanessa
Tempo (2003) .... Jenny Travile
The Big Empty (2003) .... Ruthie
11:14 (2003) .... Cheri
Bookies (2003) .... Hunter
Scorched (2003/I) .... Shmally
29 Palms (2002) .... The Waitress
Tangled (2001) .... Jenny Kelley
Texas Rangers (2001) .... Caroline Dukes
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) .... Josie McCoy
Blow Dry (2001) .... Christina Robertson
... aka Über kurz oder lang (Germany)
Antitrust (2001) .... Lisa Calighan
... aka Conspiracy.com (Europe: English title)
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) (V) (voice) .... Chelsea
... aka Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker (Europe: English
title: cut version)
... aka Batman of the Future: Return on the Joker (UK: TV title)
... aka Return of the Joker (USA: informal English title)
Get Carter (2000) .... Doreen Carter
Sally (2000) .... Beth
"Batman Beyond" .... Chelsea Cunningham (1 episode, 2000-2001)
... aka Batman of the Future (Europe: English title) (UK)
- The Last Resort (2000) TV Episode (voice) .... Chelsea Cunningham
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) .... Cassie
"Dawson's Creek" .... Devon (3 episodes, 1999)
- A Perfect Wedding (1999) TV Episode .... Devon
- Psychic Friends (1999) TV Episode .... Devon
- His Leading Lady (1999) TV Episode .... Devon
She's All That (1999) .... Laney Boggs
The Hi-Line (1999) .... Vera Johnson
Living Out Loud (1998) .... Teenage Judith
The Naked Man (1998) .... Delores
Strike! (1998) .... Abigail 'Abby' Sawyer
... aka The Hairy Bird (Australia) (Canada: English title: working
title)
... aka All I Wanna Do (USA: new title)
... aka College femminile (Italy)
... aka Filles font la loi, Les (Canada: French title)
"The Outer Limits" .... Cassie Boussard (1 episode, 1998)
... aka The New Outer Limits (USA: promotional title)
- Glyphic (1998) TV Episode .... Cassie Boussard
The Eighteenth Angel (1998) .... Lucy Stanton
The Defenders: Payback (1997) (TV) .... Tracey Lane
True Women (1997) (TV) .... Georgia Lawshe (young)
Country Justice (1997) (TV) .... Emma Baker
... aka Family Rescue
The House of Yes (1997) .... Young 'Jackie-O'
Carpool (1996) .... Kayla
26 Summer Street (1996) .... The Girl
Tom and Huck (1995) .... Becky Thatcher
... aka The Adventures of Tom and Huck
... aka Tom Sawyer
The Baby-Sitters Club (1995) .... Mary Anne Spier
"WOAK Live" (1 episode)
- Rachael Leigh Cook visits WOAK (????) TV Episode |
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Rachael Leigh Cook - Related Links |
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Rachael Leigh Cook at Celebs, Inc.
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