Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model.
She began her acting career in 2001, with several minor television and
film roles, and played a regular role on the Hope & Faith television
sitcom. In 2004, she made her film debut with a role in the teen comedy
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. In 2007, she co-starred as
Mikaela Banes, the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character, in the
blockbuster action film Transformers, which became her breakout role.
Fox reprised her role in the 2009 sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the
Fallen. Later in 2009, she starred as the eponymous lead in the black
comedy horror film Jennifer's Body. Fox is also considered one of the
modern female sex symbols and has appeared in magazines such as Maxim,
Rolling Stone and FHM Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the daughter
of Gloria Darlene (née Cisson) and Franklin Thomas Fox. She is mostly
of English ancestry, with smaller amounts of ancestry from elsewhere in
Europe. She was raised "very strictly Pentecostal", but later attended
Catholic school for twelve years.Fox's parents divorced when she was
young. Fox's mother later remarried, and she and her sister were raised
by her mother and her stepfather, Tony Tonachio. She said that the two
were "very strict" and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or
invite friends to her house. She lived with her mother until she made
enough money to support herself.Fox began her training in drama and
dance at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee.She attended a dance class at
the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary
School's chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim team. At 10 years of age,
after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, Fox continued her training.
When she was 13 years old, Fox began modeling after winning several
awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton
Head, South Carolina. At age 17, she tested out of school via
correspondence in order to move to