Originally hailing from the Midwest, Graham was born in Milwaukee, WI, on January 29, 1970. The elder of two girls (younger sister Aimee is also an actress), Graham led a fairly itinerant childhood thanks to her father's job with the F.B.I. A quiet, unpopular girl, by her own account, Graham became interested in acting at a young age. She had her first role, as Dorothy, in a school production of The Wizard of Oz and remained active in the theater throughout high school, winning the title of Most Talented from her peers. After high school, Graham packed up and headed to Los Angeles, where she discovered that talented as she may have been, it was no guarantee of employment. She worked a variety of odd jobs, including a stint as an usher at the Hollywood Bowl, before making her 1988 film debut in License to Drive as the object of Corey Haim's desire. The following year, Graham's career began to travel in a more auspicious direction when she was cast as a doomed drug addict in Gus Van Sant's critically acclaimed Drugstore Cowboy. Despite winning raves for her performance, stardom eluded Graham, as her subsequent film roles were largely incidental. However, she did win a recurring role on the TV series Twin Peaks in 1990, and the following year, starred in the widely celebrated made-for-TV movie O Pioneers!.

In 1992, Graham had a supporting role in Diggstown, the most notable effect of which was a relationship with co-star James Woods, who was twice her age. After appearing in a few more films of varying quality (Six Degrees of Separation [1993] at one end of the spectrum and 1994's Don't Do It, which paired her with Drugstore boyfriend James LeGros, at the other), the actress finally got a break with the 1996 hit Swingers, appearing in a small but memorable role as the girl of Jon Favreau's dreams. The part marked the beginning of an upswing in Graham's career; in the following year she had a bit part in the movie-within-a-movie in Scream 2, which led to her inclusion on a Rolling Stone cover featuring the movie's assorted Hot Young Things, and also had her breakthrough role in Boogie Nights. As Rollergirl, an underdressed, oversexed, coke-snorting young porn actress, Graham made an indelible impression on audiences everywhere. In 1997 she also starred in Gregg Araki's Nowhere, in which she did little except have copious amounts of sex with the similarly golden-tressed Ryan Phillippe, and Two Girls and a Guy, a critically acclaimed piece that featured her as one of the title's two girls opposite Robert Downey Jr.'s guy.

Unfortunately, Graham's first big-budget undertaking, the 1998 sci-fi film Lost in Space, was swallowed in a deep pit of critical and commercial quicksand. The actress more than rebounded the following year, however, earning top billing in two films, the Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger and the eagerly awaited Austin Powers sequel Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. The same year Graham earned the 1999 ShoWest convention's Female Star of Tomorrow title, further assuring what looked like a very bright future for the young actress.

> "Emily's Reasons Why Not" (2006) TV Series .... Emily Sanders
> Cake (2005) .... Pippa McGee
> Mary (2005) .... Mika
> Gray Matters (2005) .... Gray
> EverQuest II (2004) (VG) (voice) .... Antonia Bayle, Queen of Qeynos
> Blessed (2004) .... Samantha Howard
> Hope Springs (2003) .... Mandy
> Anger Management (2003) (uncredited) .... Kendra
> The Guru (2002) .... Sharonna
... aka Gourou et les femmes, Le (France)
> Killing Me Softly (2002) .... Alice
> Alien Love Triangle (2002) .... Elizabeth
> From Hell (2001) .... Mary Kelly
> Sidewalks of New York (2001) .... Annie Matthews
> Say It Isn't So (2001) .... Josephine Wingfield
> Committed (2000) .... Joline
... aka Non Stop Girl
> Bowfinger (1999) .... Daisy
> Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) .... Felicity Shagwell
... aka Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me (USA: video title)
> Lost in Space (1998) .... Dr. Judy Robinson
... aka LS (USA: promotional abbreviation)
> Scream 2 (1997) .... 'Stab' Casey
> Boogie Nights (1997) .... Rollergirl/Brandy
> Two Girls and a Guy (1997) .... Carla Bennett
> Nowhere (1997) .... Lilith, Shad's Girlfriend
> Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996) .... Maggie Bowen
... aka Entertaining Angels (USA: short title)
> Swingers (1996) .... Lorraine
> Terrified (1996) .... Olive
... aka Evil Never Sleeps (UK: DVD title)
... aka Tough Guy
... aka Toughguy
> Kiss & Tell (1996) .... Suzan
> Let It Be Me (1995) .... Perfumery Saleswoman
... aka Love Dance (UK)
> Desert Winds (1995) .... Jackie
> Don't Do It (1994) .... Suzanna
> Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) .... Mary Kennedy Taylor
... aka Mrs. Parker and the Round Table
> Six Degrees of Separation (1993) .... Elizabeth
> Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993) .... Cowgirl Heather
> The Ballad of Little Jo (1993) .... Mary Addie
> Diggstown (1992) .... Emily Forrester
... aka Midnight Sting
> Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) .... Annie Blackburn
... aka Twin Peaks (France)
> O Pioneers! (1992) (TV) .... Young Alexandra Bergson
> Shout (1991) .... Sara Benedict
> Guilty as Charged (1991) .... Kimberly
> I Love You to Death (1990) .... Bridget
> Drugstore Cowboy (1989) .... Nadine
> Twins (1988) (uncredited) .... Young Mary Ann Benedict
> License to Drive (1988) .... Mercedes
> Student Exchange (1987) (TV) .... Dorrie
> Mrs. Soffel (1984) (uncredited) .... Factory Girl

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