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Clear Rivers
Background:
"I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one
who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats." Ali Larter.
In her feature film debut, the football drama Varsity Blues (1999, starring
James Van Der Beek), Ali Larter first caught moviegoers' attention while playing
Darcy Steers, a cheerleader wearing a whipped cream-bikini. Formerly noticed as
part of Esquire Magazine’s 1996 hoax as hot young star Allegra Coleman, Larter
then landed jobs on silver screen, in films like House on Haunted Hill (1999),
Legally Blonde, American Outlaws and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (all three
in 2001). Also known for playing character Clear Rivers in Final Destination
(2000, opposite Devon Sawa) and its 2003 sequel Final Destination 2 (costarring
A.J. Cook), Larter has appeared in such recent films as 3-Way (2004) and A Lot
Like Love (2005). She is currently completing her upcoming film projects,
Syriana, Crazy and Marigold: An Adventure in India.
Hazel-eyed, blonde-haired Ali Larter stands at 5'8" tall and has 34-24-34
measurements. She was listed as one of Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in
the World" in 2002. As for her personal life, close friend of Varsity Blues
(1999) co-star Amy Smart, Larter was related to director Azazel Jacobs (son of
Ken Jacobs).
Varsity Blues Cheerleader
Childhood and Family:
"I keep seeing the Backstreet Boys on TV and all their fans and I'm thinking, I
was one of those girls when I was little. Oh my God." Ali Larter.
On February 28, 1976, Alison Gertrude Larter was born in Cherry Hill, New
Jersey. Daughter of parents who met on a blind date (still happily married in
the next 30 years), Ali has a sister named Kristen. She is a fan of hard-rock
music and enjoys dancing to Guns n' Roses wearing a pair of tight jeans and
boots.
Final Destination
Career:
13-year-old Ali Larter started her career as a model and traveled the world
before she decided to move to Los Angeles in 1995, where she began taking acting
lessons. In the next year, she was shot for Esquire magazine’s cover profile
"Hollywood's Next Dream Girl", a satire article about fictional next starlet
named Allegra Coleman.
Thanks for the prank, Larter landed an agent and subsequently appeared as a
guest in the TV series "Suddenly Susan," the NBC’s "Chicago Sons" and "Chicago
Hope." She was also spotted as a guest in an episode of "Just Shoot Me!" and
twice on season two of the WB’s hit teen drama "Dawson's Creek," playing Joshua
Jackson’s object of affection, Kristy Livingstone.
Along with "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek and close friend Amy Smart,
Larter debuted in her feature film Varsity Blues (1999). In the football drama
film directed by Brian Robbins, Larter played her breakthrough film role as sexy
Texas cheerleader who wore whipped cream-bikini, Darcy Steers. The follow-up
cast for Later was beautiful, willing and perpetually single supermodel Amber,
who seduced Mark Feuerstein in Christopher Kublan’s romantic comedy Giving It Up
(1999, a.k.a. Casanova Falling).
Larter became Adrian Grenier’s long-time girlfriend in John Schultz’s adaptation
of Todd Strasser’s novel, the romantic comedy Drive Me Crazy (1999, starring
Melissa Joan Hart). Also in that same year, director William Malone teamed her
with Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen in his horror remake, House on Haunted
Hill.
In 2000, Larter got her next breakout role as one of Devon Sawa’s French class
friends, Clear Rivers, in James Wong’s teen thriller Final Destination. She
later reprised her role in its 2003 installment, David R. Ellis-directed Final
Destination 2 (costarring A.J. Cook). The role received applause, handed her the
Young Hollywood Awards for Breakthrough Performance in 2001.
Larter costarred with Reese Witherspoon as murder-accused Brooke Windham in
Robert Luketic’s film version of Amanda Brown’s novel Legally Blonde and played
Colin Farrell’s affection object in Les Mayfield’s western drama American
Outlaws (both in (2001). She also teamed with Shannon Elizabeth, Eliza Dushku
and Jennifer Schwalbach Smith portraying a quartet of gorgeous jewel thieves in
Kevin Smith’s comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001).
More recent, Larter played roles in Scott Ziehl’s dark comic thriller based on
Gil Brewer's 1963 pulp novel Wild to Possess, 3 Way (2004), and in Nigel Cole’s
romantic comedy A Lot Like Love (2005, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet).
She also portrayed Eugene Byrd’s lover in Stefan C. Schaefer’s political
thriller Confess (2005).
As for her upcoming film works, Larter just completed Stephen Gaghan’s drama
thriller film inspired by Robert Baer’s book, Syriana (with George Clooney, Matt
Damon and Amanda Peet), and will soon finish Rick Bieber’s drama Crazy
(costarring Waylon Payne). She is currently filming Willard Carroll’s comedy
Marigold: An Adventure in India, in which she will portray the titular role
Marigold.
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