She began her career as a child actress, best known playing the lead role of Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl and its sequel. Between and , Chlumsky's career entered a hiatus while she attended college. She returned to acting with roles in several independent films, including Blood Car See full bio ». Filmography by Job Trailers and Videos. Hollywood Icons, Then and Now.
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Nominated for 6 Primetime Emmys. See more awards ». Known For. Chlumsky , who is also her coach and manager. Father is Frank Chlumsky, of Czech origins.
Screen tested for Jurassic Park Also turned down Beethoven , Lassie and a sitcom based around her life. Her grandmother's prom dress was a costume for Frankenstein Father Frank Chlumsky is a saxophone player and owns a restaurant in Wisconsin. Has worked as a restaurant guide in the Manhattan area, and an aspiring food critic.
She currently lives in New York City, where she is continuing her acting career. Has worked at HarperCollins Publishers as an editorial assistant. Coincidentally the fathers of both members of the couple are chefs.
Anna's father is a restaurateur and a culinary instructor in Chicago at Kendall College and Shaun's father owns a Chinese restaurant called China Town in Topsham, Maine.
Her great-grandfather owned a trained bear that appeared in Three Stooges movies. Desiring at one time to be a paleontologist, she once worked as an intern for The Field Museum in Chicago, classifying fish. Taking a break from acting between and , she majored in international studies at the University of Chicago, but did appear in the college's theatre productions of "Words, Words, Words," "Into The Woods," "Orestes" and "Nine," all at the University of Chicago Theatre.
A co-worker of her mother, Nancy L. Chlumsky , at Eastern Airlines had children who did local modeling and suggested that Nancy list Anna with the agency when she was three-months-old.
Anna modeled, periodically, for the next six or seven years, appearing in department store ads and the Sears catalog. March 8, Married her longtime boyfriend Shaun So following a 5-month-long engagement. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 32, a daughter named Penelope Joan So on July 11, Child's father is her husband, Shaun So.
Was 5 months pregnant with her daughter Penelope when she completed filming the 2nd season of Veep She is of seven eighths Czech Bohemian and one-eighth Croatian descent. Anna Chlumsky, the American actress, rose to fame in the early '90s with her portrayal of Vada Sultenfuss , an year-old girl living in Madison.
The movie, which became a hit, paved the way for her to star in other notable movies. Thirty years after her rise to stardom as a child star, the actress has accomplished a lot, both career-wise and in her personal life.
Today, in addition to being an award-winning actress, Anna Chlumsky now has a successful marriage, with two kids to show for it. In , the actress took a hiatus from acting to pursue a college degree at the Chicago University. After obtaining a BA in international studies, she proceeded to work as a fact-checker and later as an editorial assistant for HarperCollins. However, after six years of exploring other fields, Chlumsky returned to her Hollywood roots, enrolling at the Atlantic Acting School, Manhattan, to hone her skills.
After that, she made her big return to the big screen. Chlumsky was eleven when she landed the lead role on "My Girl," starring alongside former child star McCaulay Culkin. Her character, Vada Sultenfuss, was a hypochondriac preteen residing in a Madison neighborhood in Pennsylvania with her dad, who was a widower. The movie centers around the death-obsessed Vada, whose biggest fear was that she killed her mother. As the year-old navigated through life as an adolescent, she soon learns to come to terms with some new realities, including her puberty changes, a future stepmom, and the death of her best friend, Thomas J, played by Macaulay Culkin.
The movie received widespread critical acclaim, easily making Chlumsky the center of attention. That changes her life, her mode of thinking, the way she perceived friendship, and her education. All the while, the former child star had her mom on hand to call her to order before she slipped. According to the actress, her mom was always sensitive to people treating her differently and strived to prevent that.
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