Lauren German

Pretty auburn-haired performer Lauren German started her career with a series of memorably sinister roles, from her portrayal of a manipulative and self-absorbed college student MTV's "Undressed" (2000) to her turn as a mean-spirited high school peer of Mandy Moore's good-girl minister's daughter in the 2002 romance "A Walk to Remember." The Connecticut native attended the Orange County High School of the Performing Arts in Southern California but considered her acting training a hobby. She was first approached with the idea of an acting career at USC and quickly landed a cameo role in the 2001 college-set romance "Down to You" as well as a regular run on the third season the MTV college-set series "Undressed." The often campy sex-fueled teen drama offered the actress some prime screen time and an abundance of jaw-dropping dialogue while a 2001 guest role in the much more buttoned-up "7th Heaven" (The WB) had the actress playing Marie, a lookalike for the Camden's own Mary (Jessica Biel).