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Abigail Breslin
Abigail Kathleen Breslin was born on the 14th April 1996 in New York.
Abigail has had roles in films such as Signs as Bo Hess, alongside Mel Gibson, Raising Helen as Sarah Davis opposite Kate Hudson and in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement as Parade Girl Carolina with Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews.
She has also had roles in Keane with Damian Lewis, Amy Ryan and Tina Holmes, Chestnut: Hero of Central Park and The Family Plan.
Abigail was the voice of Rosebud in the 2006 film called Air Buddies. She plays the part of one of five puppies that are "dognapped".
In 2006, Abigail Breslin starred in the comedy film called Little Miss Sunshine, playing a beauty pageant contestant, who is the youngest in a dysfunctional family on a road trip opposite Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear and Steve Carell.
Her co-stars, Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin, both mentioned that they were "astounded by her seriousness of purpose during shooting".
For her performance, Abigail received a Screen Actors Guild Award Nomination, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress (on January 23, 2007).
At the time of her nomination and at the age of ten years old, Abigail Breslin became the fourth youngest actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Abigail made her stage debut in the play called Right You Are (If You Think You Are) in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum, starring in a superb cast alongside Cate Blanchett, Dianne Wiest, Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard.
Abigail had a leading role in the film called The Ultimate Gift, playing a terminally ill girl called Emily.
She has also appeared in the romantic comedies No Reservations, playing the niece of a chef called kate played by Catherine Zeta Jones and also alongside Aaron Eckhart, and Definitely, Maybe, in which her character is the daughter of a single father called Will ( played by Ryan Reynolds) and also stars Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz and Isla Fisher.
She has also starred as Nim alongside Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler, in the film called Nim's Island, and in the film called Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. Abigail plays Kit with Joan Cusack and Glenne Headly.
Abigail has had a role in the film called The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause as Trish alongside her brother Spencer Breslin.
Another role is in the film called My Sister's Keeper as Andromeda "Anna" Fitzgerald opposite Sofia Vassilieva, Alec Baldwin and Cameron Diaz.
Abigail is also using her voice talents opnce more in the film called Rango opposite Johnny Depp as the voice of Rango and Isla Fisher.
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Breslin to play ghost hero in Haunter -
4 April 2012
-Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin is to play a ghost in her next movie.-The young actress has signed on to lead the cast in supernatural mystery film Haunter, directed by Vincenzo Natali.- In the movie, Breslin's spooky character will attempt to save a young gi
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Ford and Breslin sign on for The Ender's Game -
22 December 2011
-Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin have signed on to star in the movie adaptation of Orson Scott Card's best-selling sci-fi novel The Ender's Game.-Hugo star Asa Butterfield has been cast as lead character Ender Wiggin, a gifted and genius young boy who begins training a
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Breslin lands murderous new role -
18 August 2011
-Actress Abigail Breslin has landed a shocking new role - she's set to play a teenager who kills her mother.-The 15 year old, who made her name as a child beauty pageant contestant in 2006's Little Miss Sunshine, is shedding her family-friendly image by taking on the lea
Abigail Breslin - what members say
review by from Kent
Not the soft-rock band or autobiography of football player turned manager 30 May 2007
review by A customer from London
A Big Ray of Sunshine! 4 March 2007
review by PaulaWestwood from Mossley, Lancs.
Reserve your copy... 28 August 2007
Abigail Breslin - filmography
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Adventures in Zambezia
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Leonard Nimoy, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum
Director: Wayne Thornley
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Set in a bustling bird city on the edge of the majestic Victoria Falls, this is the story of Kai - a naive, but high-spirited young falcon who travels to the bird city of "Zambezia" where he discovers the truth about his origins and, in defending the city, learns how to be part of a community.

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Rango - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Isla Fisher, Stephen Root
Director: Gore Verbinski
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Children's CGI-animated adventure featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy and Timothy Olyphant. Rango (voiced by Depp), a pet chameleon who has long harboured dreams of being a swashbuckling hero, is offered a chance to prove himself when he becomes stranded in the Mojave Desert ..read more »

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Rango
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Maile Flanagan, John Cothran Jr., Hemky Madera
Director: Gore Verbinski
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Get ready to tango with RANGO, a winner with critics and audiences that's "like nothing you've ever seen before"; (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Johnny Depp is spectacular as Rango, a kooky pet chameleon who gets tossed into a wild and raucous town in desperate need of a hero. Refreshingly ..read more »

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Janie Jones
(2010)
Starring: Breilen Bauer, Abigail Breslin, Richard Cotovsky
Director: David M. Rosenthal
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Ethan Brand and his band are on the comeback trail when a former flame drops a bomb in his lap: their 13-year-old daughter, Janie Jones. Ethan refuses to believe Janie is his kid, but when her mom suddenly leaves for rehab, the child has no place to go but into the tour bus and on the road with the ..read more »

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My Sister's Keeper - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Joan Cusack, Sofia Vassilieva, Alec Baldwin
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Nick Cassavetes directs this adaptation of the tear-jerker novel by Jodi Picoult. Abigail Breslin stars as Anna, a 13-year-old girl who was conceived by IVF in order to be a genetic match for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who has battled leukemia since childhood. Despite being a normal,..read more »

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My Sister's Keeper
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin, Abigail Breslin
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Based on the best-selling novel, Nick Cassavetes My Sister's Keeper stars Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric as a married couple whose life is altered forever when they discover their two year old daughter Kate has leukemia. Their only hope to save Kate is to conceive another child, Anna. Throughout ..read more »

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from 24,912 members
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Nim's Island
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler
Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
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Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover--the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. ..read more »

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from 10,893 members
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Definitely, Maybe - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Isla Fisher, Kevin Corrigan, Kevin Kline
Director: Adam Brooks
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Romantic comedy starring Ryan Reynolds. Will Hayes (Reynolds) is a 30-something father who is in the middle of a divorce when his 10-year-old daughter, Maya (Abigail Breslin), asks him to describe his life before he married her mother. For Maya, Will recounts his past as an ambitious young ..read more »

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No Reservations - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Bob Balaban, Aaron Eckhart
Director: Scott Hicks
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Romantic comedy starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. Master chef Kate Armstrong (Zeta-Jones) lives her life like she runs her kitchen at a trendy Manhattan eatery - with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. Kate's perfectionist nature is put to the test when ..read more »

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from 1,424 member
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Keane
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Damian Lewis, John Tormey, Lev Gorn
Director: Lodge H. Kerrigan, Lodge Kerrigan
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We first meet William Keane in the Port Authority bus terminal where he is desperately searching for his 6-year-old daughter, who has been missing for months. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the purported abduction, Keane wanders the bus station compulsively going over the events of that fateful ..read more »

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Little Miss Sunshine
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Paul Dano
Director: Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
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Heartwarming comedy follows a dysfunctional family on a frantic road trip across the US in a decrepit Volkswagen van to deliver their youngest to a chld beauty pageant on time. Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) is an ordinary little girl, perhaps even on the plain side as far as looks go but she has a ..read more »

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