Top 5 Piper Perabo movies and TV shows you need to watch now

Piper Perabo ( Image via Instagram / @piperperabo )
Piper Perabo (Image via Instagram / @piperperabo)

Piper Perabo is an American actress who has had more than two decades of career ranging from film, TV, and even theatre. Perabo has been part of numerous projects, varying in genres and styles, including light romantic comedies, heavy drama, and action movies, among others.

A native of New Jersey, but born in Dallas, Texas, Piper Perabo began life with an Ohio University drama degree to her credit, with the taste of Hollywood on her heels. She went on to build a body of work that unmistakably and very much suggests a combination of mainstream stardom and independent film, as part of a career that is varied and ongoing. She entered living rooms as a series regular on Covert Affairs and has also shown up in high-budget films like The Prestige and Looper.

Meanwhile, she has also done the low-budget tearjerkers like Lost and Delirious and Imagine Me & You. These pictures, when considered collectively, illustrate the way in which Piper Perabo has been able to blend and perform so seamlessly from high-budget blockbusters to low-budget character studies.


Here are the top 5 Piper Perabo movies and TV shows you need to watch now

1. Coyote Ugly (2000)

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Her most significant breakthrough role so far has been Coyote Ugly in 2000. She has portrayed Violet Sanford, a small-town girl who just gets up and leaves to pursue her ambitions as a songwriter in New York City. Violet is a bartender at Coyote Ugly, where they dance for spectators.

The movie captured the hipness of youth pop culture in the early 2000s and was a box office hit, opening up Piper Perabo's career. The movie had been making negative word of mouth, but still evolved into a cult classic, and Perabo's performance was one of the reasons it became a phenomenon that lasted.

Building her fame as her breakthrough, the character solidified her Hollywood fame early in her life.


2. Covert Affairs (2010 - 2014)

Covert Affairs (2010-2014) ( Image via YouTube/ Universal Pictures Home Entertainment UK)
Covert Affairs (2010-2014) ( Image via YouTube/ Universal Pictures Home Entertainment UK)

TV also introduced actress Piper Perabo, or rather, to the USA Network television drama Covert Affairs. The program, which lasted for more than five years, is inspired by the life of Annie Walker, a beautiful CIA trainee who is constantly deployed on missions well beyond her ability at random.

Piper Perabo added toughness, vulnerability, and feistiness to the character. Annie Walker was one of TV's highest-paid female spy characters. The series had action sequences and on-screen romance, and Perabo got to sustain a long-running show on TV and have an adult character development.

Her work on the series got her nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama at the Golden Globe Awards, proof that she was one to watch out for and could sustain a show by herself. Her highest-grossing film and TV of all time is Imagine Me & You.


3. Imagine Me & You (2005)

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Perabo starred as Rachel in the 2005 movie Imagine Me & You, in which her life is interrupted in the most unexpected way after she marries. Rachel falls for a woman, Lena Headey, and begins doubting her heart and her decision. The movie offered Piper Perabo the platform to speak on matters of love, identity, and what it is to be human.

Although the movie was not a box office success, it was a phenomenon within the area of historical research in terms of how LGBTQ+ issues were treated in mainstream movies during the early 2000s. The film boosted Perabo's career growth, taking part in roles that involve inner turmoil and emotional development.

Her acting gave the film a dedicated following throughout the years, a mark of the power of her acting as being sufficient enough to gain more than box office pull factor.


4. The Prestige (2006)

The Prestige (2006) (Image via Warner Bros)
The Prestige (2006) (Image via Warner Bros)

With a star-studded cast, Piper Perabo was part of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, released in 2006. Piper played Robert Angier's wife, Julia McCullough, in the movie and was sparring with Hugh Jackman. Julia's personality is instrumental to the development of the main conflict in the story, as her on-stage death by drowning infuriates Angier, and the two protagonists end up parting ways.

Although Piper Perabo had fewer seconds on screen throughout the movie with the heroes, her personality had deep emotional depth. The film was a testament to her performance skills and demonstrated that she could perform darker and deeper-telling roles.

The Prestige is one of Nolan's best films, and to have worked on it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Perabo.


5. Lost and Delirious (2001)

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Lost and Delirious was a much more edgy form of acting by Piper Perabo than the performance she was providing in Hollywood mass-market screen fare. She was Pauline "Paulie" Oster, a tough and combative student at a boarding school and who was struggling with feelings in an affair that was forbidden.

Identity, passion, heartbreak, and conformity are themes pursued in the film, with Perabo achieving dramatic intensity and emotional range in the years leading up. The acting was raw and gut-wrenching, and the movie turned out to be one of the all-time great indie dramas of the early 2000s. Where Coyote Ugly was more uptight and club-oriented, Lost and Delirious allowed Piper Perabo to demonstrate herself as a stronger actress in another environment.

It's one of her more risk-taking films in indie film, one that all of her fans cite as evidence of her ability to be a drama actress. Imagine Me & You and Lost and Delirious had already established her as the type of actress who would be perfectly suited to the rich, complex character actress role, and The Prestige gave her a highly praised ensemble film to add to her resume.


If we look at all of her work in general, one can note that Piper Perabo has established herself in both mainstream awards and independent storytelling. Coyote Ugly was her initial introduction to Hollywood, and Covert Affairs gave her some television experience.

Other than these, Piper Perabo also acted in the films Cheaper by the Dozen, Looper, and even a stage play, Reasons to Be Pretty on Broadway, thus taking her career to other platforms as well. Piper Perabo developed versatility and flexibility through television, theatre, and film.

The above five shows are only a few among a host of many, but they are the most suitable watermarks dividing her life career. To new readers of her life story, these episodes are as much a mix of why Piper Perabo is a legend within modern entertainment.

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Edited by IRMA