Mena Suvari in Los Angeles in early July. Her new memoir, "The Great Peace," deals openly with her early years being exploited by men in Hollywood. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) There are so ...

Based on the Turpin family, the film tells the story of a couple who keep their children locked away from the outside world. For Mena Suvari, her latest role as an abusive mother in the Lifetime movie ...

Mena Suvari achieved stardom when she appeared in 1999’s Oscar-winning film "American Beauty" – but the actress was "living a double life." "Between the ages of 12 and 20, I was the victim of repeated ...

Mena Suvari tells PEOPLE "this is a big process for me in accepting that something so beautiful had happened for me" Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years.

Mena Suvari has a new perspective when it comes to a specific memory of working with Kevin Spacey on the 1999 critically acclaimed film American Beauty. ET's Lauren Zima spoke with the 42-year-old ...

Joseph Kahn brought his horror-comedy movie Ick to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), with Brandon Routh, Malina Pauli Weissman,Mena Suvari. Director Kevin Lewis made a massive splash ...

Suvari plays Heather in the film, a choir girl who becomes the love interest of Klein's Oz, a confident lacrosse player. In her memoir, Suvari says that while she was filming American Pie-- her first ...