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Autumn Reeser
Reeser in April 2007
Born	Autumn Alicia Reeser September 21, 1980 (1980-09-21) (age 28) La Jolla, California, USA

Autumn Alicia Reeser (born September 21, 1980) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for playing Taylor Townsend on the Fox series The O.C..

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Personal life 1.2 Career 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Personal life

Reeser was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Kim (née Handel) and Tom Reeser, the executive director of the television channel KOCT.¹ Reeser performed musical theater in her hometown from the age of six until she left at seventeen. After graduating from Carlsbad High School, she moved to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. Reeser lives in Hollywood, California. She enjoys cooking, scrapbooking, dancing, painting, and playing with her dog, a Papillon named Gatsby after the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Reeser is engaged to writer/director Jesse Warren. They met as students at UCLA. When asked when they'll wed, she said, "It'll be fall for sure. I'm thinking probably San Diego so far, that's where I'm from."

Career

Reeser's character Taylor Townsend first appeared during the OC's third season, and joined the cast as a regular as of the fourth season. Her quirky character reinvigorated the show, and she quickly became a fan favorite. After The O.C. concluded, she joined The CW pilot The World According to Barnes's cast as "[the lead character]'s down-to-earth girlfriend, a paralegal and the daughter of an FBI agent."²³

In addition to The O.C., Reeser appeared in recurring roles on the WB's Maybe It's Me, ABC's Complete Savages, Grounded for Life, My Life DisOriented, FX Network's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and is a spokesperson for Clean & Clear. She has also appeared in a number of other television programs, as well as the films The Girl Next Door and the small-town indie "Our Very Own". Maxim ranked Reeser as the 57th most beautiful woman in the world in 2006.⁴ She also appeared on the cover of the December 2006 issue of Stuff magazine (U.S. version)

Reeser most recently appeared in ABC Family's October film Nature of the Beast, and an episode of CBS's Ghost Whisperer. Autumn recently finished production on the dark comedy Possessions, due for release in 2009. She will next star in the 2008 sequel of a 1980s classic, Lost Boys: The Tribe playing Nicole, a girl who inadvertently falls in love with a vampire, and as the heiress villain Madison in a movie musical by the High School Musical producers, called "The American Mall." She has also appeared in four YouTube trailers for the novel Celebutantes as the book's narrator Lola Santisi.

She starred in the new (and now cancelled) CW series Valentine.

Autumn also plays a character from Electronic Arts's new video game Red Alert 3.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002/2003	George Lopez	Piper	2 Episodes
2003	The Plagiarist	Irene	short film
2004	The Girl Next Door	Jane
	Art Thief Musical!	Clarity	short film
2006	Our Very Own	Melora Kendall	premiered on TV
2005	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Megan	1 Episode
2005-2007	The O.C.	Taylor	Seasons 3 to 4
2007	Palo Alto The Movie	Jaime
	Nature of the Beast	Julia	premiered on TV
2008	Lost Boys: The Tribe	Nicole Emerson
	The American Mall	Madison	premiered on TV
	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3	Commander Lisette Hanley	video game
	Pushing Daisies	Kentucky Fritz	Season 2, Episode 1
	Valentine	Phoebe Valentine	Season 1
2009	Possessions	Jessica
	Americanese	Sylvia	Indie feature

References

External links

• Autumn Reeser at the Internet Movie Database
• Autumn Reeser Photo Gallery
• Autumn Reeser Web
• Autumn Reeser Official Website

Persondata
NAME	Reeser, Autumn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reeser, Autumn Alicia
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1980-9-21
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Jolla, California, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH