Aug 7, 2007, 13:00 GMT
Mena Suvari has shaved her head.
Mena Suvari - Hollywood, CA © Glenn Harris / Photorazzi
The stunning actress, who had long blonde hair when she starred alongside Kevin Spacey in the Oscar-winning film 'American Beauty', showed off her newly bald head when she met a friend for lunch in Beverly Hills last week.
Mena's representative has revealed the actress shaved off her locks in June while she was shooting a movie adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 'Garden of Eden' in Spain.
In the film, the actress plays a beautiful bored newlywed who falls for a sultry Italian girl while she is honeymooning in Europe.
Mena isn't the only female star who has been forced to sacrifice their hair for a film project.
Natalie Portman shaved her head for her role in sci-fi thriller 'V for Vendetta' in 2005.
The actress says she fulfilled a long-standing ambition by losing her hair.
She explained: "I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity for a girl."
Demi Moore agreed to cut all her hair off to star as a woman who joins the US Navy Seals in 'G.I. Jane' in 1997.
Sigourney Weaver shaved her head when she reprised her role as Ellen Ripley for 'Alien 3'.
Britney Spears famously shaved off her hair earlier this year before entering Malibu's Promises rehab centre.
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