Cameron Richardson was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on September 11, 1979. She says she grew up in trailer park settings throughout her childhood. After completing school in 1998, Cameron decided to try her hand at modeling.

Cameron Richardson started out modeling for Mademoiselle, Interview, Maxim, Cosmopolitan, and many other magazine publications. Her work took her from New Jersey to Los Angeles to overseas locations.

Like other models before her, Cameron finagled her career in magazine spreads toward working in film and television.

In 2000, Cameron Richardson made her first appearance on the television screen at the age of 21. She appeared as Celeste Arno in the first-season run of the USA series Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family. Cameron's role had her playing the 16-year-old daughter in a family enlisted as undercover FBI agents. The series completed 25 episodes in 2001 for its first season and was not picked up for renewal.

Although the show did not return, 2001 also brought Cameron photo recognition when Maxim magazine placed her as #92 in its "Hot 100 2001" issue. In 2002, she fell to #96 on the magazine's list.

After her television debut ended, Cameron Richardson threw herself back into another TV series and some raunchy, slapstick-comedy films. In 2003, at the age of 24, Cameron appeared in two National Lampoon's films: After School Special and Dorm Daze. Neither films gained critical or box-office attention. In the fall of 2003, Cameron was a regular guest as Darlene on the FOX series Skin. She appeared in five of eight filmed shows before the series was cancelled.

In 2004, however, Cameron took her first starring role in the dramatic film The Good Humor Man. The movie featured a flashback '70s story about high school and middle-America suburbia. Cameron received limited exposure from the film, which also featured Kelsey Grammer as a character and one of its executive producers.

In the fall of 2005, Cameron Richardson went back to television. She took the part of Paula Hargrove in the FOX series Point Pleasant, which focused on supernatural events that occur after an unknown girl washes ashore a small New Jersey town. FOX aired eight episodes of the original 13 before the series was cancelled.

Cameron returned to film after Point Pleasant was shut down. She took the role of Piper Cole in the high-powered Supercross (2005) -- a film about a motocross championship in Las Vegas. The film also featured personalities such as Sophia Bush and Aaron Carter. The film was not a box-office success, but Cameron found herself on Maxim magazine's list for the "Hot 100 of 2005." Cameron appeared on the list at a respectable #52 -- up 40 spots from her first appearance on the list in 2001.

Cameron Richardson was cast in two films for 2006 -- Godspeed and Adrift. In Adrift, Cameron was cast in an ensemble cast of new faces. The film follows a weekend of tragedy for a group of reunited high school friends as they take a yacht cruise. In Godspeed, a space station faces possible devastation of all life on board. This film carries a higher profile than the first, as it costars Indiana Jones legend Harrison Ford.

In 2007, Cameron Richardson was cast as Claire in Alvin and the Chipmunks and got to share the big screen with comedian David Cross of Arrested Development fame. She will resume her role for the sequel, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, which hits theatres in late '09. We're also looking forward to her role in Women in Trouble, a film that follows the day in the life of 10 very different women, which also stars Carla Gugino and indie darling Joseph Gordon-Levitt.