Perrey Reeves is an American film and television actress. Born in New York City, she was raised in the countryside of New Hampshire with a family who preferred not to own a television. Her paternal grandfather was sound pioneer Hazard E. Reeves, who introduced magnetic stereophonic sound to film, and her maternal great-grandfather was Delaware U.S. Senator James H. Hughes. Reeves's educational background ranged from years abroad in France and Italy to the Ivy League colleges of the United States