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Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian film and television actress.
– “I was a real freak when I was a kid. I thought aliens were going to come after me.”
Acting isn’t her only passion; Elisha, like most self-respecting Canadians, loves Curling and Ice Hockey.
Elisha Cuthbert was ranked number ten by AskMen.com in the list of the “Top 99 Women of 2007.
Biography: When she was nine, Cuthbert started modeling for various lines of children’s clothing and also became a foot model.
Cuthbert starred in the Canadian television movie Lucky Girl in 2001 and was awarded a Gemini Award for her performance.
Soon after her move to Los Angeles.
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Elisha Cuthbert
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She began her Hollywood film career with small roles in Old School and Love Actually in 2003. Cuthbert’s next film, The Girl Next Door, cast her in her first lead role as an ex–porn star, Danielle, opposite Emile Hirsch. In her next big-screen outing, Cuthbert starred with Paris Hilton and Chad Michael Murray in the 2005 remake of the classic horror film House of Wax. Cuthbert’s next film project was the indie film The Quiet, which she not only co-starred in but also co-produced and helped finance. She played Nina, a temperamental 17-year-old cheerleader who suffers from sexual abuse. In 2007, Cuthbert appeared in the film, Captivity, a thriller centered around a fashion model taunted by a psychopath who has imprisoned her in a cellar. In He Was a Quiet Man, Cuthbert played Vanessa, a quadriplegic, starring opposite Christian Slater. In 2008, Cuthbert appeared in My Sassy Girl, a remake of a Korean film, starring alongside Jesse Bradford. Her next film is the family comedy The Six Wives of Henry Lefay with actor Tim Allen, in which she plays his daughter.
– “I don’t ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.”
– “We have a lot of throwbacks to, I think, the classic ideas of what horror film was all about, I think when we were younger.”
An Interview with Elisha Cuthbert
– “So what scares you in real life?
– Flying. That’s my most…I think I worry about it so much. I think fear comes from a lack of knowledge as far as…anyway for me, the fact that I don’t understand how a 40 ton craft somehow maneuvers itself in the air and I’m 106 and I can’t lift off at any means. How am I doing this right now? It just doesn’t feel safe. So I think it’s the unknown. Yeah, flying is definitely frightening.”
– “Do you have rituals or superstitions you go through?
– Oh yeah. I always get on the plane with my right foot first. I pray a lot. I always talk to my mom before I get on a flight. There’s all kinds of things, but I try not to be a psycho about it. I realize with my job that I have to fly so I kind do bite my lip and go for it, but there’s always that fear in the back of my mind.”
– “Are you a big horror film in general?
– I am a big horror fan. I’ve always gone to see horror films. A lot of horror films scared me as a kid. In particular was Fire in the Sky. Anything that had to do with extra terrestrials scared the crap out of me. Some people, the religion thing freaks them out, or whatever it may be – ghost vampires – but aliens did it for me.”
Elisha Cuthbert Filmography
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Elisha Cuthbert: The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Tim Allen, Paz Vega, Andie MacDowell, Chris Klein, Eric Christian Olsen, Jenna Elfman, Kelly Garner, Farrer John, Jenna Dewan, Connor Fox, Lindsay Sloane
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay which follows a grieving daughter who tries to arrange her father’s funeral, while putting up with all of his ex-wives.
He Was a Quiet Man
Elisha Cuthbert: He Was a Quiet Man
Cast: Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy
Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) is about to have a bad day. Another eight hours of sitting in a dull grey cubicle, ignored by his co-workers, existing in a world where he feels completely out of sync. On this particular bad day Bob crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero and in the process saves Vanessa’s (Elisha Cuthbert) life. This invisible nobody saves the object of his desire only to have her ask him to end her life. Also starring Oscar nominee William H. Macy.
Captivity
Elisha Cuthbert: Captivity
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Laz Alonso, Michael Harney
Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree (Elisha Cuthbert) has it all – beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer is America’s sweetheart. She is loved and adored and sought after. Everyone wants her. But someone out there has been watching and waiting. Someone wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in Soho, Jennifer is drugged and taken.
Held captive in a cell, Jennifer is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind.
Inspired by the fact that over 850,000 people are reported missing every year in the United States, many of whom are never seen again, ‘Captivity’ follows the story of one woman who is abducted and tortured, held against her will in a place where days turn into weeks. Her will to escape and survive is challenged every moment by a maniac’s desire to demoralize innocent victims and play out his sick game that has been played many times before Jennifer was taken.
A combination of ‘Saw’ and ‘Hostel’ meets ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Captivity’ is a psychological thriller/horror film that shows us the true terror of the crimes of abduction and confinement that are committed every day by serial killers and psychopaths at large.
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Roland Joffe (‘The Killing Fields,’ ‘The Mission’), ‘Captivity’ delves deeply into the minds of both captor and victim with a fresh and terrifying view of this epidemic horror.
Being released this summer in theatres nation-wide, ‘Captivity’ has been called one of the most controversial films of the year. It’s a disturbing and raw, yet classy and thought provoking film which will leave you terrified, and looking over your shoulder as you leave the theatre wondering if you could be next.
The Quiet
Elisha Cuthbert: The Quiet
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Edie Falco, Camilla Belle, Shawn Ashmore, Martin Donovan
Popular cheerleader Nina Deer’s (Elisha Cuthbert) seemingly unblemished suburban world is turned upside down when her parents (Edie Falco and Martin Donovan) adopt their recently orphaned goddaughter Dot (Camilla Belle). Dot’s arrival delivers a blow to Nina’s idyllic social life and triggers the unraveling of the family’s darkest secrets.
Both Nina’s family and friends, including the school hunk Connor (Shawn Ashmore, The “X-Men” trilogy), develop an odd fascination with Dot and confide in her their troubling secrets. Dot quietly shoulders the burdens and secrets of those around her, while continuing to hold what is perhaps the biggest secret – her own.
Directed by Jamie Babbit (“But I’m a Cheerleader”), “The Quiet” is about family secrets, friendship, trust and betrayal. Through Nina’s eyes, Babbit takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride- through the hilarious and often crude interactions of high schools students and a family where happy faces disguise ugly truths.
House of Wax
Elisha Cuthbert: House of Wax
Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, Jon Abrahams, Brian Van Holt
What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House of Wax, an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.
A road trip to the biggest college football championship of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly (Elisha Cuthbert), Paige (Paris Hilton) and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled, and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki) and her hot-headed brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray).
They wake up the next morning to find that their car has been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded, they accept a local’s invitation for a ride into Ambrose, the only town for miles. Once there, they are drawn to Ambrose’s main attraction-Trudy’s House of Wax, which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover, there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real.
As the friends uncover the town’s dark secrets, they are stalked by a demented killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose-or become permanent additions to the House of Wax.
The Girl Next Door
Elisha Cuthbert: The Girl Next Door
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Chris Marquette, Paul Dano
Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-arrow over-achiever who has never really lived life… until he falls for his new neighbor, the beautiful and seemingly innocent Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert). When Matthew discovers this perfect “girl next door” is a one-time porn star, his sheltered existence begins to spin out of control. Ultimately, Danielle helps Matthew emerge from his shell and discover that sometimes you have to risk everything for the person you love.
The Girl Next Door is a comedy about opposite worlds, views and backgrounds colliding. It is about a boy with a future and a girl with a past. A boy who is about to lose his innocence and a girl who is trying to regain it.
The film asks, How far are you willing to go for the person you love? Are you willing to risk everything? If you want the girl next door, you had better be willing to risk it all and experience a journey for which you never could have prepared.
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