Eva Amurri

Eva Amurri was born on March 15, 1985, in New York City, to Italian film director Franco Amurri and American actress Susan Sarandon (whose mother's ancestry was Italian). Amurri was raised by her mother and her mother's long-time partner Tim Robbins. She has two maternal half-brothers, Jack and Miles, as well as two paternal half-siblings, Leone and Augusta, from her father's marriage to Heide Lund, and two stepsisters, Tallulah and Ruby, from Lund's previous marriage to Lord Antony Isaacs, son of Michael Isaacs, 3rd Marquess of Reading.

She attended Friends Seminary (Manhattan) for middle school, and graduated from Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York, and Brown University.Amurri had a role in the comedy film The Banger Sisters (2002), in which her mother starred, with Amurri playing the daughter of her mother's character. She guest-starred, along with her mother, on an episode of Friends in Season 7 Episode 15 ("The One with Joey's New Brain") in which she is slapped by Sarandon. In 2004, she appeared in Saved!. She guest-hosted Attack of the Show! with Kevin Pereira. In 2009, she had a role in the third season of the Showtime series Californication, where she played Jackie, a stripper, student and love interest of central character Hank Moody (David Duchovny). Amurri played the leading role in the 2008 film Middle of Nowhere.

In 2009, she appeared as Shelly in the episode "The Playbook" of How I Met Your Mother. Amurri starred in the thriller film Isolation, directed by Stephen T. Kay.

In 2010, she appeared in the Fox series House as Nicole in the episode "The Choice". In 2012, she appeared in Happy Madison Productions' That's My Boy as young Mary McGarricle. Her mother also appeared in the film as McGarricle's older self.

Amurri began her popular lifestyle blog "Happily Eva After" in 2015.