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Megan Fox

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Megan Denise Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and raised in Rockwood, Tennessee to Gloria Darlene Tonachio (née Cisson), a real estate manager and Franklin Thomas Fox, a parole officer. She began her drama and dance training at age 5 and at age 10, she moved to Port St. Lucie, Florida where she continued her training and finished school. Megan began acting and modeling at age 13 after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. At age 17, she tested out of high school using correspondence and eventually moved to Los Angeles, California. Megan made her movie debut as spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace in Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen's direct-to-video comedy Holiday in the Sun (2001). Her best-known roles are as Sam Witwicky's love interest, Mikaela Banes in Transformers (2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), as reporter April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and as Jennifer Check in the horror comedy Jennifer's Body (2009).
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Her ancestry is mainly English, with small amounts of German, Scottish and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and distant French and Welsh. She has also described herself as being of part Cherokee Native American ancestry. These Cherokee roots have not yet been substantiated.
Ranked #14 in the Men's Health list of 100 Hottest Women of All Time, she placed behind Angelina Jolie, Sharon Stone, Scarlett Johansson and Catherine Deneuve.
Her sister Kristi Branim Fox is 12 years older than her and is a high school education counselor.
Ranked #17 on Interview magazine's Hollywood faces to watch "Future Stars of Tomorrow".
She attended Morningside Academy in Port St. Lucie, Florida until her junior year when she attended St. Lucie West Centennial High School. At age 17, she tested out of high school using correspondence and moved to Los Angeles, California.

[on working with Michael Bay] Michael Bay's name, if it's attached to a script, you know it's going to be a huge blockbuster released in the summer, with jets flying over at the premiere and all that kind of stuff. So I knew it was going to be a huge movie.
[on George Clooney] He's sarcastic, and he has a different girlfriend constantly. It's considered charismatic. He's like this James Bond, sexy dude. The older he gets, the better he gets. It's a double standard. To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women. As soon as you curse or, God forbid, make some sort of sexual reference that's a joke, you're labeled a party girl. They don't do that with men, so I feel it would be a lot easier.
[Director Michael Bay] doesn't like really skinny actresses. He's been traumatized by them for some reason in the past. So I always try to put on eight to ten pounds before filming, and I'm always the fattest I've ever been when making a Transformers (2007) movie.
[on her Marilyn Monroe tattoo] I committed to having her face on my arm for the rest of my life, so I have to be a pretty big fan.
Wonder Woman is a lame superhero. She flies around in her invisible jet, but she's not invisible. And her weaponry is a magic lasso that makes you tell the truth. I just don't get it.

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