Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Mary Elizabeth Winstead at the premiere of Grindhouse in Austin, Texas, March 2007. Photo by Jeff Balke.
Birth name	Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Born	November 28, 1984 (1984-11-28) (age 22) Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
Years active	1997 – present
Awards Screen Actors Guild Awards Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture 2006 Bobby (nominated)

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She has been called a scream queen, à la Jamie Lee Curtis, because of her roles in such horror films as Final Destination 3, Death Proof, and Black Christmas, but has branched out into other genres, including comedy (Sky High), drama (Bobby) and action (Live Free or Die Hard). A scream queen is an actress who has become associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre, as a frequent victim, or through constant appearances as the female protagonist. ... Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is a two time Golden Globe-winning, and Emmy Award-nominated American film actress and a successful writer of books for children. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Final Destination 3 is a 2006 horror film, and the third film in the Final Destination series. ... Grindhouse is a 2007 film expected to be released in the United States on April 6, 2007. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed. ... A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. ... Sky High is a superhero film from Walt Disney Pictures that opened in the United States on July 29, 2005. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Bobby is a Golden Globe Award-nominated drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez. ... Action movies usually involve a fairly straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using physical force. ... Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4. ...

Biography

Early life

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to James Ronald Winstead and Betty Lou Knight. When she was five, the Winsteads moved to Sandy, Utah. Her interest in performing art also began to emerge with interests in ballet and acting. Nickname: Location of Rocky Mount within North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States U.S. state North Carolina County(s) Edgecombe, Nash Founded Circa March 22, 1816 Incorporated February 28, 1867 Government  - Mayor Frederick E. Turnage Area  - City  35. ... A view of the Wasatch Mountains from a Sandy neighborhood. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... Painting of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas, 1872. ... Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play. ...

As a child, Winstead appeared in the Mountain West Ballet’s version of The Nutcracker. Hoping to become a ballerina, at the age of eleven, she received the opportunity to study dance in a summer program of the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. There, she studied ballet and jazz dance, but decided to also study acting. Winstead ended up appearing on Broadway during Donny Osmond’s successful run of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. (left to right) Sergei Legat, as the Nutcracker, an unidentified child as a gingerbread soldier, and Lydia Rubtsova as Marianna in Vsevolozhskys costumes for the Ivanov/Petipa/Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, St. ... In 1956, Ballet teacher Robert Joffrey and choreographer Gerald Arpino formed a six-dancer ensemble that toured the country performing original ballets during a time when most touring companies performed mere reduced versions of ballet classics. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Jazz dancers. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Donald Clark Donny Osmond (born December 9, 1957) is an American Welsh entertainer. ... Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was the second musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. ...

She was also a member of the International Children's Choir during her youth and honed her skills performing at her church. It has been suggested that Ecclesia (Church) be merged into this article or section. ...

Early career

Winstead began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in episodes of the television series Touched by an Angel and its spinoff, Promised Land, before being cast as Jessica Bennett in the 1999 soap opera, Passions, a role she played until 2000. She subsequently appeared in the short-lived series, Wolf Lake, and in the made-for-television film, Monster Island. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Promised Land was a television series which ran on CBS from 1996 to 1999. ... Jessica Bennett Lester is a fictional character on NBCs daytime drama Passions. ... The year 1999 in television involved some significant events. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... Passions is a multi-Daytime Emmy Award-winning American television soap opera created by veteran writer James E. Reilly. ... Wolf Lake was a short-lived American television series, following a pack of werewolves living in a Seattle suburb. ... A television movie (also known as a TV film, TV movie, TV-movie, feature-length drama, made-for-TV movie, movie of the week (MOTW or MOW), single drama, telemovie, telefilm, or two-hour-long drama) is a film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network. ... Monster Island is the name of a campy 2004 made-for-TV movie in the 1950s monster movie style. ...

2005-2006

Trying her hand at comedy, she went the independent film route as the Jewish daughter of a large, zany family in the indie feature Checking Out, but her screen time fared better in the more mainstream Walt Disney Pictures confection Sky High, in which she starred as Gwen Grayson, the in-disguise alter ego of the supervillian Royal Pain. The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... An independent film, or indie film, is usually a low-budget film that is produced by a small movie studio. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... A still photo of Checking Out Checking Out is a 2005 feature film directed by Jeff Hare and written by Richard Marcus and Allen Swift. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sky High is a superhero film from Walt Disney Pictures that opened in the United States on July 29, 2005. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Sky High (2005). ...

Winstead at the 2006 Comic-Con International, promoting the film Grindhouse. Photo by Nike Scream.

After the exposure Sky High provided, 2006 saw her forge a professional relationship with the creative team of James Wong and Glen Morgan, formerly best known for their memorable contributions to The X-Files. She and her co-star, Ryan Merriman, landed in the path of the grim reaper’s master plan in Final Destination 3. She had failed to land a part in the second film in the trilogy, but found her place in the third installment. Morgan and Wong wanted to collaborate with her again and convinced her to reluctantly appear in their sorority slasher Black Christmas. One day, she inadvertently received a chance to lampoon horror scream queens when The Tonight Show host Jay Leno, unaware of who she was, knocked on her front door and included her in a comedy segment spoofing horror movies. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Comic-Con International, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre fan convention founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. ... Grindhouse is a 2007 anthology film co-written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. ... // Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing... This article is about the writer/producer James Wong. ... Glen Morgan is an American television producer, writer and director, best known for his work on The X-Files, Millennium, Space: Above and Beyond, Willard (2003 film), and The One (film) He is often credited along with long-time writing partner, James Wong. ... The X-Files is a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series created by Chris Carter, which first aired on September 10, 1993, and ended on May 19, 2002. ... Ryan Earl Merriman (born April 10, 1983) is an American actor. ... Death, personified is an anthropomorphic figure or a fictional character who has existed in mythology and popular culture since the earliest days of storytelling. ... Final Destination 3 is a 2006 horror film, and the third film in the Final Destination series. ... Final Destination 2: You Cant Cheat Death Twice is a 2003 horror film and the sequel to Final Destination (2000). ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... James Douglas Muir Jay Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC televisions long-running variety and talk program The Tonight Show. ...

The same year, she appeared in Emilio Estevez's Bobby, a valentine to the politics and morals of Robert F. Kennedy. The film's cast included Laurence Fishburne, Anthony Hopkins, Ashton Kutcher, William H. Macy, Demi Moore, and Sharon Stone, but most of her scenes were with Shia LaBeouf and Brian Geraghty. She and her co-stars were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture. Emilio Estévez (born May 12, 1962 in New York, New York) is a Spanish American actor, director and writer. ... Bobby is a Golden Globe Award-nominated drama film written and directed by Emilio Estevez. ... Robert Francis Bobby Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. ... Laurence Fishburne III (b. ... Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. ... Christopher Ashton Kutcher, (born February 7, 1978) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an American actor. ... William Hall Macy Jr. ... Demi Moore (born November 11, 1962) is an American actress. ... Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actress, producer, and former fashion model. ... Shia Saide LaBeouf[1] (born June 11, 1986) is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning[2] American actor and comedian. ... Brian Timothy Geraghty (born 1975 in Toms River, New Jersey) is an American film actor. ... The SAG Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film. ...

2007-present

Winstead in March 2007.Photo by Jason McElweenie.

In 2007, she appeared in a pair of high-profile event films. Quentin Tarantino cast her as a well-intentioned, but vapid and naïve actress in his high-speed Death Proof, his half of a double-billed feature. The same summer, hot off the heels of its release, Winstead received another shot at action with a tentpole sequel, Live Free or Die Hard, landing a coveted role Jessica Simpson and many other celebrities had auditioned for. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... 2007 has been referred to, by film and media critics, as the year of the threequels, a nickname referring to both the 2004 summer movie season and three film franchises from that year, which again appear this year: Spider-Man 3, Shrek the Third, and Oceans Thirteen, and in... Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. ... Grindhouse is a 2007 film expected to be released in the United States on April 6, 2007. ... Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4. ... Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s. ...

She is due to star in Make it Happen, a dance film to be shot in and around Chicago and Winnipeg. Make it Happen is a 2008 dancing film directed by Darren Grant and starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. ... // Purpose of the list This article lists movies featuring recognizable dance forms, demonstrating them, shedding light on their origin, or being the base of a plot. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Nickname: Motto: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) Loaction of Winnipeg in Manitoba Coordinates: , Country Canada Province Manitoba Region Winnipeg Capital Region Established, 1738 (Fort Rouge) Renamed 1822 (Fort Garry) Incorporated 1873 (City of Winnipeg) Government  - City Mayor Sam Katz  - Governing Body Winnipeg City Council  - MPs...

Filmography

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Footnotes

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External links

• Mary Elizabeth Winstead at the Internet Movie Database
• Maxim Online interview
• Stumped? Interview
• PassionsCentral interview (October 28, 1999)