From fashion to film, California-born actress-model Beau Garrett went from photography shoots to moving pictures. With an acting resume that began with television series and segued into big screen thrillers, Garrett’s acting career caught on fire, quite literally, as Frankie Raye – a.k.a. Nova – the military daughter and a flame-wielding girlfriend of Johnny “The Human Torch” Storm.

Born on Dec. 28, 1982 in Beverly Hills, CA, Garrett was one of two girls raised in the Santa Monica mountains area of Topanga Canyon. As a youth, her fresh-faced looks had modeling agents circling. One agent in