awards for arts achievement

Mena Suvari has become one of the most sought after young actresses in Hollywood. She began her career at age 12 as a model and was already acting in television by the following year. Her breakthrough role was as Kevin Spacey’s underage object of desire in the 1999 Academy Award-winning film American Beauty, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 2003, she made her stage debut opposite Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Matt Damon in The World of Nick Adams at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Suvari has just completed filming the feature Rumor Has It, directed by Rob Reiner, in which she stars opposite Jennifer Aniston, Shirley McLaine, and Kevin Costner.