Mary Elizabeth Winstead movies

When she was five, her family moved to Sandy, Utah. Her interest in performing art also began to emerge with interests in ballet and acting.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.She was also a member of the International Childrens Choir during her youth and honed her skills performing at her church.Early careerShe began her acting career 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(2001-2002), and in the made-for-television film, Monster Island(2002).Mainstream successTrying 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, which was both financially and critically successful. She starred as Gwen Grayson, the in-disguise alter ego of the supervillian Royal Pain., 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.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Movies

All movies starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

• Black Christmas
• Death Proof
• Factory Girl
• Grindhouse
• Live Free or Die Hard