Biography
A slender, olive-skinned actress whose elegant beauty is somewhat offset by a collection of vivid tattoos (including a portrait of
Marilyn Monroe on her right forearm and the King Lear quote "We all laugh at gilded butterflies" on her right shoulder blade), Megan Fox knew she wanted to be an actress from age three, and never once considered another line of work. A native of Memphis, TN, Fox began taking dance lessons when she was five years old and continued perfecting her graceful movements even after her family relocated to Florida five years later. At 13, the aspiring starlet enrolled in modeling and acting classes. It didn't take long for all of Fox's hard work to pay off, with a role in the 2001 Olsen twins comedy
Holiday in the Sun marking the ambitious actress' official screen debut.
Over the course of the next few years, Fox became a frequent fixture on television thanks to roles on
What I Like About You,
Two and a Half Men, and Hope & Faith. In 2004, Fox would torment a fledgling
Lindsay Lohan in
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, though it was Fox's performance as a human caught in the middle of an epic robot battle that would truly prove her calling card to Hollywood. Cast as the love interest of
Shia LaBeouf in
Michael Bay's 2007 blockbuster
Transformers, Fox turned more than a few heads while fighting for the future of the human race. In 2008, Fox could be spotted opposite
Kirsten Dunst,
Simon Pegg,
Jeff Bridges, and
Gillian Anderson in the Robert B. Weide-directed comedy
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide