Background
Reeser was born in Louisiana Jolla, California, the daughter of Kim (née Handel) and Tom Reeser.
Reeser was born in Louisiana Jolla, California, the daughter of Kim (née Handel) and Tom Reeser.
After graduating from Carlsbad High School, she moved to Los Angeles to study at University of California, Los Los Angeles She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. She also studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse acting school.
She is best known for her roles as Taylor Townsend on the Fox series The O.C., and Lizzie Grant on Home Box Office"s Entourage. Reeser performed musical theater in her hometown from the age of six until she left at seventeen. Reeser lives in Hollywood, California.
She enjoys scrapbooking, painting, and playing with her Papillon dog named Gatsby after the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Reeser is perhaps best known for her character Taylor Townsend on popular television series, The O.C. She first appeared during the third season and joined as a regular cast member the following season.
In addition to The O.C., Reeser has appeared on numerous television shows including Home Box Office"s Entourage, World Bank"s Maybe lieutenant"s Maine, American Broadcasting Company"s Complete Savages, World Bank"s Grounded for Life, Forex Network"s lieutenant"s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, American Broadcasting Company"s Pushing Daisies, Fox"s Human Target, Columbia Broadcasting System"s Ghost Whisperer, TNT"s Raising the Bar, The CW pilot The World According to Barnes, and the American Broadcasting Company Family"s October film Nature of the Beast. Additionally, Reeser played the starring role of Phoebe Valentine, Goddess of the Oracle at Delphi, in the CW Network series Valentine. Reeser also appeared in the American Broadcasting Company television series Number Ordinary Family during the 2010-2011 season.
Reeser co-starred in the short-lived military drama Last Resort during the 2012-2013 season.
She has also appeared in a number of films including the 2008 sequel of a 1980s film, Lost Boys: The Tribe, Smokin" Aces 2: Assassins" Ball, The Girl Next Door, and a movie musical by the High School Musical producers, called The American Mall. Maxim ranked Reeser as the 57th most beautiful woman in the world in 2006.
She also appeared on the cover of the December 2006 issue of Stuff magazine (United States version). Reeser is a spokesperson for Clean & Clear.
Reeser appears regularly in the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a staged show in the style of old-time radio.
She is the star of the segment "Amelia Earhart: Fearless Flyer". In the fall of 2010, she starred in the concert revue Foreign The Record: Quentin Tarantino in Los Los Angeles Reeser also contributed to the 2008 video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, voicing Commander Lissette Hanley of the Allied Nations.
Her character also appears in the demo.
