Megan Fox
Biography
Date of Birth 16 May 1986, Rockwood, Tennessee, USA
Birth Name Megan Denise Fox
Nicknames Mega Fox
Foxy Megan
ht 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
Megan Denise Fox was born in Rockwood, Tennessee, to Gloria Darlene (Cisson) and Franklin Thomas Fox, a parole officer. Megan began her training in drama and dance at age 5 and, at age 10, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where she continued her training and finished school. Megan began acting and modeling at age 13 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 using correspondence and eventually moved to Los Angeles, California. Megan made her film debut as Brianna Wallace in the Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen film Holiday in the Sun (2001). Her best known roles are as Sam Witwicky’s love interest Mikaela Banes in the first two installments of the Transformers series, Transformers (2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), and as April O’Neil in the film reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
Trade Mark
Often dresses in red and black.
Seductive voice
Her many tattoos
Long brown hair
Trivia
Her ancestry is mainly English, with small amounts of Scottish, German, and Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), and distant French and Welsh. Also, Megan’s six times great-grandmother, Mary Powhatan, was said to be of the Powhatan Native American tribe; if so, it would make Megan of 1/256 Native American ancestry.
Ranked #16 on Maxim magazine’s Hot 100 Women of 2008 list.
Lives in Los Angeles, California.
(June 9, 2009) Attended the world premiere of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Japan.
(June 24, 2010) Married her boyfriend of 6 years Brian Austin Green following a 3-year-long engagement.
Personal Quotes
Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she’s not invisible. I don’t get it.
I’m definitely labelled in the pin-up category. I haven’t given people a reason to take my work seriously yet, which is my responsibility. I think the expectation for me, as far as my ability as an actress goes, is very low. I feel like that means I can only ever be an overachiever when people expect so little from me.
[on Marilyn Monroe] I just had an incredible amount of empathy for her my whole life. I cry when I see her on camera.
When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who’s not their partner. It’s really kind of gross.
If your idea of a role model is somebody who’s gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I’m not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.
My sense of humor doesn’t translate well into print, some of the things
There were some evil girls in my school and I went to Christian high school. I was fifteen and everybody knew that my aspiration in life was to become an actress. One girl came to school on Halloween in a black leather catsuit and everyone thought she was Catwoman. She answered, “No, I am Megan Fox.” She was making fun of me. I didn’t say anything to her. I was really shy. I’ve always gotten along better with boys. That rubbed some people the wrong way. I was not, ever for a second, popular. Everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn’t like me for that. I’ve had only one great girlfriend my whole life.
When I sit down to talk to men’s magazines, there’s a certain character that I play. She’s not fully fleshed out — she doesn’t have her own name — but she shows up to do men’s magazine interviews. There’s something so ridiculous about always being in your underwear in those magazines, and you know the interview is going to run opposite those pictures. So there’s a character that talks to all of them.
People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she’s so serious and stoic. I’m the opposite. When I do interviews, I say things that I think are hysterical. But because we live in a world of sound bites, you’re not allowed to have a sense of humor. Sarcasm doesn’t translate in print at all. And neither does self-deprecating humor. I’m not a tigress like Angelina. Of course, people want me to be. But I want to be the contradiction of that.
[on her classic red 1966 Mustang Fastback Christmas present from Brian Austin Green] We were going through cars on eBay and I found one in really good condition that was beautiful and for a good price.
[on her ht] I’m tiny, and people think that I’m 5′ 10″ or that I’m big. They think celebrities are larger than life, and I’m really short. I’m 5′ 4″.
I am a stepmother to the fullest extent. I have looked after Kassius since he was three and he has no memory of life without me. For some reason, no one wants to look at me that way, but I am responsible for him and I’ve never struggled with that, from bedtime stories to the school run.
Daniel Day-Lewis is incredibly successful, and he’s not being followed by the paparazzi. You put yourself in that position. You never see Nicole Kidman in the tabloids like you see Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson. If I were to go out and make a scene in every club in New York and L.A., eventually I would start getting a lot of press in the tabloids. But is that something I want?
[on what movie she would remake] Well, they couldn’t remake it because it would destroy it, but I’ve always loved The Lost Boys (1987). The female character in it is not really amazing, but if you were to turn one of the male characters into a female, I would love to do that. That movie has stuck with me my whole life. There’s something magic about it to me.
Getting married was the best thing I’ve ever done.
I’ve done drugs, and that’s how I know I don’t like them. I tried several things in order to make an informed decision, but I didn’t enjoy anything other than marijuana.
I’ve met endless so-called beautiful people who don’t seem to have personalities or a direction in life. They’ve never been forced to develop their characters because they’re viewed as being so attractive. So I think beauty can be a mask.
You won’t believe this, but I never go out. I don’t like drunk, sweaty people whose only goal is to have sex. I stay home and play computer backgammon. Every once in a while, I go to Color Me Mine to do pottery.
Mickey [Mickey Rourke] is such a beautiful, wonderful human being. He’s so genuine and so sweet and so talented. I just love him to death. I actually got a tattoo that is sort of in honor of him. It’s on my ribs. (The tattoo is on the right side of her rib cage and reads: “Those who danced were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”).
Of course, I have a lot of flaws. But I do not tell them – ever.
[when asked on what she would say to Megatron to keep him from destroying the world] I’d barter with him and say, “Instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super Bible-beating people in Middle America?”.
I’m not kidding when I say that if I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I’ll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.
Really, my only job is to look attractive.
[on being fired from Transformers (2007) and on Shia LaBeouf] I didn’t want to talk about it while they’re on the press tour because I didn’t want to try to throw mud at them. I didn’t want that movie to suffer. Especially because I love Shia. I wanted that movie to do well for him. I didn’t want to have this big media war over something that really was so silly and it would have just been my ego needing to engage in a war, at that point. Of course, there will be a time when I want to tell my side of the story. I just don’t feel it was appropriate while they were promoting the movie.
I’m so suspicious of all boys-slash-men. I just don’t like them or trust them. They’re boys, they’re easily toyed with. I tell stories and have them eating out of my hand. Not all of it is true. In fact, most of it is bullshit.
[on guys she liked] I’ve always gone for skinny, tattooed musician-types who wear women’s pants and nail polish. That’s because I grew up obsessed with Nirvana and Motley Crue.
[on having an obsessive compulsive disorder] This is a sickness, I have an illness, this is not okay anymore.
My temper is ridiculously bad. I’ve had to say to Brian, “You have to go and stop talking to me, because I’m going to kill you. I’m going to stab you with something, please leave.” I’d never own a gun for that reason.
Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they’re immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties. I’ve lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18. I’m so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don’t like them or trust them.
[on lists ranking the most beautiful women in Hollywood] You know, lists like this – and there are plenty – generally, we elect the girl who plays in the biggest blockbuster of the year.
[2008] Some of the women considered to be the sexiest women alive look that way only because they’ve had three nose jobs and their jaw lines shaved down. Sure, they’re perfect now, but they didn’t start out that way.
I did take baton-twirling lessons for a while. I was on a jump-rope team when I was in 10th grade. We were called the Jumping Jackets.
I mean, I don’t sit around and say, “Gosh, I have to do this movie with this person.” I really, honestly, am much more focused on my personal life.
[on the media and not watching news] Everything makes me cry. Because everyone is someone’s child, every woman seems like someone’s mother. I have so much more patience for people and women in general.