"American Beauty" star Mena Suvari claimed one of her exes "manipulated" her into having threesomes with other women. The actress, 43, first opened up about experiencing sexual abuse from a former ...

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.

In 1999, Mena Suvari was the breakout star of the Oscar-winning sensation American Beauty. But behind the bright lights and awards, there was a much darker truth. "I was living a double life," Suvari, ...

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 ...

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 previously told PEOPLE it was a "very emotional experience" finding out she was pregnant last year Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about ...

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 ...

Mena Suvari claims one of her exes “manipulated” her into having threesomes with other women. The “American Beauty” star — who previously opened up about surviving sexual abuse at a young age — said ...

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 ...

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 ...