the famous This Is Your Brain on Drugs PSA television advertisement, in which she proceeds to destroy a kitchen with a frying pan. In 2011, she was selected by the Obama administration as a Champion of Change for Arts Education. In June 2012, she began to award a small scholarship to students between ages 14 and 19. The scholarship helps pay for career classes, mentoring programs, and other school fees. In 2017, Rachael Leigh Cook reprised her "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" role twenty years later for a PSA by the Drug Policy Alliance critiquing the War on Drugs and its contribution to mass incarceration, structural racism and poverty. The ad was posted to YouTube on April 20, 2017, in recognition of 4/20. Personal life Cook married actor Daniel Gillies on August 8, 2004, whom she had dated since 2001. They have two children: a daughter born September 2013 and a son born April 2015. The couple separated in June 2019 and divorced in 2021. Filmography Film Television Music videos Video games Awards and nominations References External links 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Actresses from Minneapolis American child actresses American film actresses American people of Italian descent American television actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses Living people Hill-McIndoe-Gillies family South High School (Minnesota) alumni 1979 births