Celebrity crush: Eva Amurri

Today's entry features an up-and-coming model-turned-second-generation actress.

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Name: Eva Amurri (images -- some NSFW | Web site | Twitter)
Hometown: New York City, according to her Wikipedia profile. She is the daughter of Italian director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon.
Best Known For: Eva's longest television role to date has been on Californication, as a college student of Hank's (David Duchovny) whom he later encounters working in a strip club. She's also made appearances on the medical dramas Mercy and House, in the films New York, I Love You and Saved! (which starred fellow celebrity crush Jena Malone), on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother and in the online comedy Children's Hospital.

Humble Beginnings: Eva started work on screen well before she turned 18. She appeared in Bob Roberts (written, directed by, and starring her mother's longtime love Tim Robbins) as "Girl in Hospital" in 1992; she was born in 1985. Similarly, she appeared in flashback as a 9-year-old Sister Helen Prejean in 1995's Dead Man Walking, which starred her mother as the nun-turned-anti-capital punishment activist.

Quite a few of her childhood and early teen appearances on film are in her mother's projects (the Natalie Portman film Anywhere But Here, an episode of Friends) -- the only one I'm listing below is The Banger Sisters, which I'd already listed for sale elsewhere on this site, under the profile of fellow celebrity crush Erika Christensen.

Obligatory Edgy Stuff: As noted, her breakthrough role came playing a stripper on Californication, which -- as a premium cable program -- didn't have to settle for strippers wearing lingerie on the stage. She inherited more than just acting chops from her famously va-va-voom mother.
Why Ye Olde Podcaster Likes Her: In addition to the va-va-voomness, her work on Mercy and House have shown seeds of the same dramatic acting skills that made her mother not just another buxom starlet. Eva may well have the same staying power if she makes the right choices in roles.

TV and Web series credits: Celebrity Ghost Stories, season 3, episode 2 (Amazon | iTunes) * Children's Hospital, season 2: "I Am Not Afraid of Any Ghost" (Amazon | iTunes) * House, season 6: "The Choice" (Amazon | iTunes) * Mercy (2009) (Amazon | iTunes) * Californication, season 3 (Amazon | iTunes) * How I Met Your Mother, season 5: "The Playbook" (Amazon | iTunes)
Film and TV-movie credits: The Doctor (2011) (Amazon | iTunes) * Stag (2011) (Amazon | iTunes) * AmeriQua (Amazon | iTunes) * Isolation (2011) (Amazon | iTunes) * New York, I Love You (2009) (Amazon | iTunes) * Possible Side Effects (2009 TV-movie) (Amazon | iTunes) * Animals (2008) (Amazon | iTunes) * Middle of Nowhere (2008) (Amazon | iTunes) * The Life Before Her Eyes (Amazon | iTunes) * The Education of Charlie Banks (Amazon | iTunes) * Saved! (2004) (Amazon | iTunes) * The Banger Sisters (Amazon | iTunes)
Voice work: Dust by Joan Frances Turner (audiobook, narrator) (Amazon | iTunes)