Isabelle Fuhrman
| Isabelle Fuhrman | |
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 Fuhrman at the World of Color Premiere Disney California Adventure, 2010 |
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| Born | February 25, 1997 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 2006–present |
Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American teen actress. Fuhrman is best known for playing Esther in Orphan.
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[edit] Life and career
Fuhrman was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Atlanta. Her Soviet-born mother, Elina Fuhrman, is a journalist, and her father, Nick Fuhrman, is a former political candidate and business consultant. She has an older sister, Madeline Fuhrman, who is a singer and songwriter.
Fuhrman's acting career began at the age of seven, when a casting director from Cartoon Network spotted her waiting for her sister and cast her for one of the shows, Cartoon Fridays. Fuhrman made her big screen debut just a few years later in the 2007 drama Hounddog. The same year, Fuhrman was chosen to star in the movie Orphan alongside Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard. Fuhrman was cast through an exhaustive nationwide search of young actresses to portray the lead in the Warner Bros. collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Joel Silver’s Dark Castle Entertainment.
Fuhrman's other credits include the role of Gretchen Dennis (aka Girl Ghost) opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt on the hit TV show Ghost Whisperer, Grace O'Neil in the pilot episode of the 2006 television series Justice, and a number of national commercials like Pizza Hut and K-Mart. Her performance as Gretchen Dennis in Ghost Whisperer earned her a Young Artist Award nomination.[1] Fuhrman also appeared in comedy skits on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and she is known to have provided character voices for Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Fridays".
In 2010, Fuhrman was cast in the lead role of Angie Vanderveer in the dark comedy Salvation Boulevard (based on the novel by Larry Beinhart), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. Fuhrman is part of an ensemble cast that includes Pierce Brosnan, Marisa Tomei, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly and Ed Harris.
On May 11, 2011, Lionsgate confirmed that Fuhrman had been cast in the role of Clove in the film The Hunger Games, expected to be released in 2012.[2]
[edit] Charitable work
Fuhrman was approached by Save the Children in 2010 to be a celebrity advocate for their "Caps for Good" project. She and several volunteers with Save the Children have helped knit hundreds of baby caps in an effort to reduce the death rate of newborns in developing countries.[3]
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2006 | Justice | Grace O'Neil | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2007 | Hounddog | Grasshopper | |
| 2008 | Ghost Whisperer | Gretchen Dennis | Episode: "Pieces of You" |
| 2009 | Orphan | Leena Klammer/Esther Coleman/Esther Sullivan | |
| 2009 | Children of the Corn | Additional Voices | TV movie |
| 2009 | The Cleveland Show | Girl (voice) | Episode: "The One About Friends" |
| 2010 | Pleading Guilty | Carrie | TV movie |
| 2010 | Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage | Hatchling Shelly (voice) | |
| 2011 | The Whole Truth | Lyric Byrne | Episode: "Perfect Witness" |
| 2011 | Salvation Boulevard | Angie | |
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | Clove | Completed |
| 2012 | The Healer | Michelle | Completed |
| 2013 | After Earth | Hayley Moore | Pre-production |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2265157/awards
- ^ Dave Lewis (May 11, 2011). "'Orphan' star joins 'Hunger Games,' Tributes all cast". hitfix.com. http://www.hitfix.com/articles/orphan-star-joins-hunger-games-tributes-all-cast.
- ^ "Teen Star Isabelle Fuhrman: Knitting Caps For Good". Craft Ideas Weekly. December 21, 2010. http://craftideasweekly.com/featured-artists/isabelle-fuhrman-interview/.
