American beauty Mena Suvari was born February 9, 1979, in Newport, Rhode
Island. The youngest child of parents Ando, a retired psychiatrist, and Candice,
a nurse, the natural redhead has three older brothers, who all enlisted in
the US army.
Mena, named for an Egyptian godmother (her last name Suvari is after an Estonian
river), began as a model with Wilhelmina. After lying about her age (she was
12 but claimed she was 13), Mena signed with the agency and worked as a model
for the following 5 years.
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