Autumn Reeser - TCA Summer ABC & Disney Press Tour

Autumn Alicia Reeser (born September 21, 1980) is an American actress. She has portrayed Taylor Townsend on the Fox series The O.C., and currently appears as Lizzie Grant on HBO's Entourage.

Reeser was born in La Jolla, California, the daughter of Kim (née Handel) and Tom Reeser. Reeser performed musical theater in her hometown from the age of six until she left at seventeen. After graduating from Carlsbad High School, she moved to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. Reeser lives in Hollywood, California. She enjoys scrapbooking, painting, and playing with her Papillon named Gatsby after the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Reeser's character Taylor Townsend first appeared during the OC's third season, and joined the cast as a regular as of the fourth season. Her quirky character reinvigorated the show, and she quickly became a fan favorite. After The O.C. concluded, she joined The CW pilot The World According to Barnes's cast as "[the lead character]'s down-to-earth girlfriend, a paralegal and the daughter of an FBI agent."

In addition to The O.C., Reeser appeared in recurring roles on the WB's Maybe It's Me, ABC's Complete Savages, Grounded for Life, My Life DisOriented, FX Network's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and is a spokesperson for Clean & Clear. She has also appeared in a number of other television programs, as well as the films The Girl Next Door and the small-town indie "Our Very Own". Maxim ranked Reeser as the 57th most beautiful woman in the world in 2006. She also appeared on the cover of the December 2006 issue of Stuff magazine (U.S. version)

Reeser most recently appeared in ABC Family's October film Nature of the Beast, and an episode of CBS's Ghost Whisperer. Autumn recently finished production on the dark comedy Possessions, due for release in 2009. She starred in the 2008 sequel of a 1980s classic, Lost Boys: The Tribe playing Nicole, a girl who inadvertently falls in love with a vampire, and as the heiress villain Madison in a movie musical by the High School Musical producers, called "The American Mall." She has also appeared in four YouTube trailers for the novel Celebutantes as the book's narrator Lola Santisi.

She starred in the CW series Valentine.

Autumn also plays Commander Lissette Hanley from Electronic Arts's video game Red Alert 3.

In 2009, Reeser guest-starred on Entourage as Lizzie Grant, a 26-year-old agent at MGA and the love interest of Andrew Klein.

In 2010, she became a recurring guest-star on Fox's Human Target, appearing as Layla in Episode 1.06, "Lockdown" and Episode 1.08 "Baptiste." Reeser will appear in the upcoming ABC television series No Ordinary Family, which is set to air during the 2010-11 season.