Trivia:
-Is a natural red-head.

-Last name "Suvari", pronounced "soo-VAHR-ee", is Estonian.

-First name "Mena", it comes from her British Aunt named after the "House of Mena" Hotel (at the base of the pyramids in Egypt), it is pronounced "MEE-nah".

-Has 3 older brothers, 2 of them in US army.

-Mother is a nurse; father is a psychiatrist

-Mena was raised in a Rhode Island home that was built in 1870 and which she and her brothers believed was haunted. They saw several apparitions over the years, all of which she believed were friendly.

-Her mother is of Greek descent.

-Mena and husband Robert Brinkmann have taken considerable flak because of their age differential - 16 years. Robert is a cinematographer.

-Did her own singing in American Pie (1999).