Megan Fox & Transformers: How the Movie Franchise Launched Her Career

Before she joined the cast of the two Transformers films, Megan Fox has been quite an unfamiliar face in Hollywood. Megan Fox shot to fame when she kicked some butt as the robot fighter Mikaela Banes in the 2007 box-office hit Transformers. This role propelled her to stardom.

Soon, Fox became a more familiar face when the second Transformers movie opened in theaters in June 2009. Her role as Mikaela established Fox as an actress who’s more than just a pretty face and a sexy body.

Megan Fox herself has admitted that the latest Transformers movie gave her career a boost and opened more opportunities for her. But the 23-year-old American actress got the ire of the Transformers director Michael Bay when she remarked that Transformers “is not a movie about acting.” Bay reacted by asserting that Transformers has helped launch Fox’s career.

Where was Megan Fox before her meteoric rise to popularity? Fox shifted from modeling to acting when she played a supporting role in the 2001 movie Holiday in the Sun. After that, she played small roles in different TV series such as Two and a Half Men, Ocean Ave., and What I Like About You. In 2004, Fox played Carla in the Lindsay Lohan film “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”. It was then succeeded by a number of appearances in various films.

Fox’s first major role in a movie is her being the love interest of Shia Labeouf in the 2007 Transformers film. Her performance earned her recognitions in various Teen Choice Awards. After her stint in the two Transformers films, she continues taking on lead roles in other movies such as Jennifer’s Body and Jonah Hex, which will be released in 2009 and 2010, respectively.