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Name: Arielle Kebbel
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Date of Birth:
February 19, 1985
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Place of Birth:
Winter Park, Florida
Mini-bio:
The fair-haired, fresh-faced and photogenic Arielle Kebbel lived the dream of many an American teenage girl by traveling the direct, one-shot path from obscurity to an instantly flourishing career. Ju... read morest after high school, this former victor of teen beauty pageants (and Hollywood hopeful) hit the road with her mom and undertook a cross-country journey in the family car from the Kebbels' hometown of Winter Park, FL, straight to Southern California. In no time at all (reportedly less than one week), Kebbel auditioned for a recurring guest role on the WB's series comedy drama Gilmore Girls -- and was hired immediately by series producers, thus realizing instantly her dreams of becoming a respected Tinseltown actress.In the popular Gilmore program, Kebbel portrayed Lindsay Lister, the woman who dates, then marries, then divorces small-town hunk Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki). The turn lasted from the midpoint of season three (2003) into the fall of 2004, concluding with the Foresters' estrangement. Kebbel then graduated from the small to the big screen with a series of turns in high-profile but (unfortunately) consistently schlocky and critically maligned Hollywood films. Kebbel traveled as one of the few white passengers on a "jive" purple airplane commandeered by Snoop Dogg in the neo-blaxploitation comedy Soul Plane (2004), then received second billing as one of the busty, "all-American" campers (and the child sweetheart of the lead) in 2005's direct-to-video sexploitationer American Pie Presents: Band Camp. Kebbel's highest-profile 2006 releases included John Tucker Must Die and The Grudge 2. In the former, she played Carrie, a technology buff who teams up with two female friends to exact a series of nasty paybacks on the high-school heartthrob who cheated on all of them simultaneously. In the latter, a sequel to a 2002 horror picture headlined by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kebbel falls prey to the infamous curse of Kayako and Toshio, two vengeful Japanese spirits who unleash an irrepressible rage on those humans unfortunate enough to fall into their path. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Arielle Kebbel mini-bio: Kebbel's first major role was a recurring role in the 3rd-5th seasons of Gilmore Girls, playing Lindsay Lister, girlfriend and later ex-wife of Dean Forrester (Jared Padalecki). She played Elyse Houston in American Pie: Band Camp as well as Cookie in Reeker and Robin in Be Cool all in 20005. In 2006 she appeared in both John Tucker Must Die and the Japan-filmed horror film The Grudge 2. More recently she appeared in The Uninvited, a remake of the South Korean Horror A Tale of Two Sisters, alongside Emily Browning. She also guest starred on The Vampire Diaries, as Lexi a vampire friend of Stefan's. 
