Megan Fox

Megan Fox (born May 16, 1986, Rockwood, Tennessee, U.S.) is an American actress best known for her roles in action films, notably the first two installments of the film franchise Transformers, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.

Early life

Fox spent her early childhood in Tennessee, where she was raised in a Pentecostal home. She began taking drama and dance lessons at age five. Her parents later divorced, and her mother remarried and moved with Fox and her older sister to St. Petersburg, Florida. By the age of 13, Fox had begun acting and modeling; she won several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Classmates at her Christian high school ridiculed her for her ambition to become an actress, so she finished her schooling by taking correspondence classes and later moved to Los Angeles.

Debut and breakthrough

Fox made her screen debut in the direct-to-video Holiday in the Sun (2001), a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen vehicle. In 2002–03 she appeared as Ione Starr on the TV show Ocean Ave. She had supporting roles as Carla on the teen comedy film Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) and, from 2004 to 2006, as Sydney Shanowski on the TV sitcom Hope & Faith. Her breakthrough role came when she was cast as high-school heroine Mikaela Banes in Michael Bay’s blockbuster film Transformers (2007) and its first sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). She provided Banes’s voice for the video games Transformers: The Game (2007) and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), as well as the voice for Superman’s girlfriend Lois Lane in the TV movie Robot Chicken: DC Comics Special (2012).

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Later career

Eager to move beyond comic books and video games, Fox starred as a man-eating zombie in the black comedy Jennifer’s Body (2009), and in Jonah Hex (2010) she portrayed a prostitute with a heart of gold. In 2012 she appeared as Desi, a savvy boutique store employee who also engages in escort work, in the romantic comedy This Is 40. She portrayed the intrepid and ambitious broadcast journalist April O’Neil in the live-action big-screen reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2014; she reprised the role two years later in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.

In 2016–17 Fox had a recurring role on the TV series New Girl, playing Reagan (the latest “new girl”), a pharmaceutical sales representative. She later hosted Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox (2018), a television miniseries that explored popular ancient sites. Fox’s movie credits from 2019 include Zeroville, a mystery comedy-drama that was directed by and starred James Franco. In 2020 she appeared in the family film Think Like a Dog and the action thriller Rogue. In Till Death (2021), Fox was cast as a woman trying to evade two killers after being handcuffed to her dead husband. She starred as a CIA agent in the action thriller Expend4bles (2023), and as an android in the science fiction thriller Subservience (2024).

Personal life

In 2010 Fox married actor Brian Austin Green, whom she met on the set of Hope & Faith. They had three sons before separating in 2020 and divorcing two years later. After her split with Green, Fox began a high-profile romance with rapper and actor MGK (formerly called Machine Gun Kelly). They had an on-again, off-again relationship, and in 2025 Fox gave birth to their daughter.