Emerging from a fashion-modeling background that began at eighteen, she moved into commercials for The Gap and appeared in music videos such as Limp Bizkit’s “Nookie” and Lonestar’s “Amazed” before making her television debut on LateLine in 1998. A supporting turn in the teen comedy The New Guy (2002) marked her first feature-film appearance, and she soon secured the lead as the alien Sara in the…