Autumn Reeser

Autumn Reeser, best known for her role as Taylor Townsend on the hit show "The O.C.", was born in La Jolla, California in 1980. Her father is the executive director of a local network affiliate.

Reeser has been performing since the age of six, doing musical theatre throughout her youth until she went to college. At 18, she packed her bags and headed to Los Angeles, where she studied at UCLA. In 1999, while at UCLA, Reeser won the Intercollegiate Mock Trial All-American Award. After college, she focused on acting.

In 2001 she made the first of many television appearances on "Star Trek: Voyager" as a Ventu Girl. She also appeared on MTV's "Undressed", "Grounded for Life", and "Complete Savages" before appearing on "The O.C." Her character first appeared in the third season of the show, but was such a hit with the fans that she was brought on full time for the show's fourth and final season.

Since the end of "The O.C.", Reeser has kept busy doing a pilot for the CW and different guest appearances. She also starred in the ABC Family movie The Nature of the Beast (2007) and had a role in the "Lost Boys" sequel, Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008). She then starred in the MTV movie The American Mall (2008) with Nina Dobrev. Autumn recently starred on the CW series "Valentine" as Phoebe Valentine. Her next film will be Possessions (2009) co-starring Jaime Murray.

Autumn lives in Hollywood with her husband Jesse Warren and her dog Gatsby.