Mena Suvari Goes for 'Shiny Head'

Tue, 07 August 2007 12:00:00 ET

Mena Suvari Goes for 'Shiny Head'
Mena Suvari has shaved her head. The stunning actress, who had long blonde hair when she starred alongside Kevin Spacey in the Oscar-winning film 'American Beauty', showed off her newly bald head when she met a friend for lunch in Beverly Hills last week.

Mena's representative has revealed the actress shaved off her locks in June while she was shooting a movie adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 'The Garden of Eden' in Spain. In the film, the actress plays a beautiful bored newlywed who falls for a sultry Italian girl while she is honeymooning in Europe.

Mena isn't the only female star who has been forced to sacrifice their hair for a film project. Natalie Portman shaved her head for her role in sci-fi thriller 'V for Vendetta' in 2005. The actress says she fulfilled a long-standing ambition by losing her hair. She explained: "I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity for a girl."

Demi Moore agreed to cut all her hair off to star as a woman who joins the US Navy Seals in 'G.I. Jane' in 1997. Sigourney Weaver shaved her head when she reprised her role as Ellen Ripley for 'Alien³'. Britney Spears famously shaved off her hair earlier this year before entering Malibu's Promises rehab centre.