Her appearance is a far cry from her look in 1999 blockbuster American Beauty.
The breakthrough performance, starring opposite Kevin Spacey and directed by Sam Mendes, catapulted 19-year-old Mena into super stardom.
The hit film grossed more than £200million worldwide and picked up five Oscars at the 2000 Academy Awards.
But life hasn't been a bed of roses for Mena, now 43, who recently revealed in her memoir The Great Peace that she battled with drug use and was subjected to sexual abuse. She told how a former boyfriend coerced her into rough sex and threesomes with other women. Speaking to The Guardian, she said: “I was not being loved. I was just a body, a receptacle for his desires.”
After the relationship, Suvari married and divorced twice. She found love with prop designer Michael Hope in 2018 and they had son Christopher last year.
She went on to star in films Sugar & Spice, and TV shows Six Feet Under and American Horror Story.
Nearly 20 years on, here we take a look at what's become of the rest of the American Beauty cast. From a child star in Hocus Pocus, Birch had her first adult role in American Beauty.
Afterwards she bagged a lead role in indy film Ghost World - which landed her an Oscar.
But she then disappeared from the spotlight - with some blaming her pushy dad Jack’s on-set behaviour.
A crew member on film Winter of Frozen Dreams said her father insisted on watching a sex scene between his daughter and actor Dean Winters.
The insider told Page Six: “It was so wrong. The director is saying, ‘Harder! Faster!’ and the father is giving Winters the thumbs up.”
After a break from acting until 2019, Birch, 40, is now directing true crime film The Gabby Petito Story.
