Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress and recording artist, best known for her scream queen roles in the horror films The Ring Two, Final Destination 3, Black Christmas, Death Proof, The Thing, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, andCloverfield Lane. She appeared as John McClanes daughter Lucy in Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard, the fourth and fifth films in the Die Hard franchise, Ramona Flowers in the film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Kate Hannah, an alcoholic struggling with sobriety in the Sundance drama Smashed.

The youngest of five children of Betty Lou Winstead and James Ronald Winstead, she was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Her grandfather was a cousin of actress Ava Gardner. When she was five years old, her family moved to Sandy, Utah, a Salt Lake City suburb. She attended Peruvian Park Elementary, where she took advanced classes. A talented dancer and singer, Winstead studied dance in a Joffrey Ballet summer program in Chicago, Illinois and sang in the International Childrens Choir. During her youth, Winstead initially hoped to pursue a career as a ballerina and appeared in local ballet productions. As she entered her teens Winstead was forced to quit ballet due to her height. She later stated I realized pretty early on that I was already too tall by the time I was 13... You know, your body has to stay that way for your entire life, and its pretty hard on your muscles and your bones. Realizing that a dance career was unlikely, Winstead turned to acting as she was still a teenager

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