Piper Perabo played the sex kitten bartender in Coyote Ugly, see her now
The movie followed Violet Sanford (Perabo), who leaves her hometown in New Jersey to pursue her dreams of becoming a songwriter in New York City.
The romantic comedy/drama, based on the actual Coyote Ugly Saloon, was directed by David McNally and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Perabo, who has since appeared on the hit series Yellowstone, made the rare move of stepping out on Tuesday evening in New York City.
The 48-year-old from Texas was at the red carpet premiere of the series Butterfly looking as glamorous as ever in a pale pink gown with silver high heels.
Butterfly follows David Jung (played by Daniel Dae Kim), a former US intelligence operative. When the consequences of a decision from his past come back to haunt him, he finds himself pursued by Rebecca, a sociopathic agent assigned to kill him.
Perabo will appear in six episodes of season one.
Piper had her breakthrough in the comedy-drama film Coyote Ugly.
She next was in Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), its sequel Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), The Prestige (2006), Angel Has Fallen (2019), and the spy drama series Covert Affairs (2010–2014).
Born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Toms River, New Jersey, she graduated from Toms River High School North in 1994 then went to Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1998.
After graduating, Perabo moved to New York and landed a role in the comedy Whiteboyz.
Then came Coyote Ugly.
She also appeared in The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as FBI agent Karen Sympathy.
In 2001, she starred in Lost and Delirious, playing a boarding school student who falls in love with a female classmate.
The next year she starred as a French exchange student in the independent comedy Slap Her... She's French, released under the new title She Gets What She Wants. She was also in The I Inside (2003), Perfect Opposites (2004), George and the Dragon (2004), The Cave (2005), Imagine Me & You (2005), Edison (2005), and The Prestige (2006).
In 2008, Perabo co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in the comedy Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
The following year, Perabo was cast as CIA field agent Annie Walker, the lead character in Covert Affairs.
In September 2012, Perabo had a supporting role, alongside Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, in the time travel thriller film Looper.
Next came the sitcom Go On and the thriller Into the Grizzly Maze, the series Notorious (2016), the thriller film Black Butterfly, the comedy series Turn Up Charlie, the action film Angel Has Fallen and the supernatural horror series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels then the dark comedy film, Spontaneous.
In 2021, Perabo joined the cast of Yellowstone as Summer Higgins, an animal rights activist and John Dutton's lover.
This year she was in the film Peak Everything as Tina.
In 2013, Perabo became engaged to director and writer Stephen Kay; they married in 2014.
The 48-year-old from Texas was at the red carpet premiere of the film Butterfly looking as glamorous as ever in a pale pink gown with silver high heels
Butterfly follows David Jung (played by Daniel Dae Kim), a former US intelligence operative. When the consequences of a decision from his past come back to haunt him, he finds himself pursued by Rebecca, a sociopathic agent assigned to kill him
In February some of the cast members reunited after more than two decades.
Tyra Banks, Maria Bello, Izabella Miko, Bridget Moynahan and Melanie Lynskey were all seen with songwriter Diane Warren.
They came together to celebrate Coyote Ugly's 25th anniversary for a screening and Q&A at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.
Despite a relatively low budget and mediocre reviews, the film was considered a hit as it grossed $113 million worldwide.
For the occasion, Banks looked incredible in a figure hugging black and blue illusion dress which boasted gloved long sleeves and shoulder pads.
The mother-of-one elevated her frame in a pair of towering stilettos and accessorized with a number of dazzling silver rings.
Banks, who played Zoe in the film, reunited with the cast for the Global Empowerment Mission LA Wildfire Relief. The star lost her Palisades home in one of the Los Angeles wildfires.
Meanwhile Miko, who portrayed Cammie, showed off her sensational figure in a plunging leopard print catsuit.
The pair were also joined by Bello, who played Lil, and Lynskey, who portrayed Gloria, and Diane Warren, who wrote four songs for the film.
Prior to the reunion, Bello teased that she hadn't 'seen some of those girls in 25 years' and was excited to see what would happen.
Back in 2018, she teased that she was eager to reprise her role in the no-nonsense bartender in Coyote Ugly.
'I'm dying to do Coyote Ugly 2,' the actress told People. 'I want to produce it — I just need to get the rights from Mr. Jerry Bruckheimer or work with him.'
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