American Beauty is an absolutely incredible ... infatuated with his teenage daughter's cheerleading best friend Angela Hayes. When Lester is about to be laid off from his job, he blackmails ...

Detestable cheerleader Angela Hayes (Mena Suvari) was pretty much the only negative aspect of the phenomenally brilliant American Beauty (even if she did turn out okay in the end). She essentially ...

2. Kirsten Dunst turned down the role of Angela Hayes. Coming off of the immense success of “The Virgin Suicides,” Dunst passed on “American Beauty” because she did not want to get ...

Lester’s muse, Angela Hayes (Mena Suvari), takes her last name from Dolores Haze. No doubt influenced by Nabokov’s penchant for anagrams, Ball named the protagonist of American Beauty Lester ...

Suvari was the very picture of girl-next-door glamour in her star-making turn as Angela Hayes in the 1999 best-picture-winning film “American Beauty.” But her real life couldn’t have been ...

Long before the actor’s fall from grace, several of his fellow actors in American Beauty experienced reversals and tough times in their careers. In 1999, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari and Thora ...

Kirsten was offered the role of the neighbourhood teenager Angela Hayes ... Kevin wasn't the reason she turned down the role in American Beauty. “I think I just turned down the meeting or ...

and cheerleader temptress Angela Hayes in best-picture winner American Beauty. “I had no clue,” she says now. “I thought every movie made $100 million. . . . I was young.” From time to ...

By Sarah Bahr It was March 2000, and everything was coming up roses for “American Beauty ... old Lester’s lust for the 17-year-old Angela Hayes (Mena Suvari) look no longer daring or ...