AnnaLynne McCord

AnnaLynne McCord is an American actress and former model, known for playing vixen-type roles.

Date of birth

She was born on July 16, 1987.

Family

AnnaLynne McCord was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of a Christian pastor.

Education

She was home-schooled and graduated from high school at the age of 15, after which she joined the Wilhelmina Modeling Agency and appeared in ads for various brands, including Estee Lauder, and also briefly modeled for Seventeen.

Love life

In 2014, McCord revealed that she was sexually assaulted when she was 18 by a male friend, and as a result broke down during her rape scene in 90210, unbeknownst to her fellow cast members, who thought she acted well. 

Since 2011 she has been in a relationship with Prison Break and Legends of Tomorrow star Dominic Purcell. The couple announced an amicable split in 2014 but rekindled their romance a year later. McCord told People magazine she came back into his life as a friend when the actor was diagnosed with skin cancer but that it soon became romantic again. 

Net worth

Not yet established.

Career

McCord first gained prominence in 2007 as the scheming Eden Lord on the FX television series Nip/Tuck, and as the pampered Loren Wakefield on the MyNetworkTV telenovela American Heiress.

In 2008, she was the second actress to be cast in the CW series 90210, portraying antiheroine Naomi Clark. Initially, the part of Clark was conceived as a supporting role. By the end of the first season, however, various media outlets had begun referring to McCord as the series' lead.

For the role of Naomi Clark, she was nominated for a Teen Choice Award and received the Hollywood Life Young Hollywood Superstar of Tomorrow award in 2009.

In 2010, she won a Breakthrough of the Year Award in the category of "Breakthrough Standout Performance".Apart from acting, she has also contributed to charities in her free time.

In 2009, she was labeled by the Look to the Stars organization as "one of the strongest young female philanthropists standing up in Hollywood and fighting for the charities she believes in."

In 2011, she was nominated for VH1's "Do Something" Award in the category of "TV Star".

Her turn as a disturbed and delusional teenager in the 2012 film Excision was widely acclaimed. For her role in Excision, McCord won "Best Actress" at the Malaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema in 2012.

Also for her role in Excision, she earned second place for "Best Actress" at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards in 2013.

 In 2014, McCord joined the cast of the TNT series Dallas for its third season, in the recurring role of Heather.

She played the lead role in the 2015 Lifetime film Watch Your Back.