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Winstead said of her role, 'I bounced around. 2005–2011 įollowing a minor role in the indie comedy Checking Out (2005), she took on a larger role as a school senior turned the main antagonist in the Walt Disney Pictures film Sky High, about an airborne school for teenage superheroes. She was offered a role in the film A Cinderella Story, but turned it down as she had just graduated from school and was going on a cruise with friends (where she met Riley Stearns, her future husband). In 2004, Winstead played a supporting role in MTV's made-for-television film Monster Island.

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The series was canceled after ten episodes. Winstead's next significant television role was in the short-lived CBS drama series Wolf Lake (2001–02), as the daughter of Tim Matheson's character. She left to pursue other interests, later stating, 'I really had one of the smallest roles on Passions, so I didn't get too involved. She gained her first major role as Jessica Bennett in the NBC soap opera Passions, from 1999 to 2000.

After her brief performance in that show, Winstead began making appearances in various television series and earned guest roles in Touched by an Angel and Promised Land. Winstead appeared in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Donny Osmond. As she was still a teenager at the time, this required her to be homeschooled through most of high school. You know, your body has to stay that way for your entire life, and it's pretty hard on your muscles and your bones.' Realizing a dance career was unlikely, she turned to acting. She later said, 'I realized pretty early on that I was already too tall by the time I was 13. As she entered her teens, she was forced to quit ballet due to her height.

During her youth, she hoped to pursue a career as a ballerina and appeared in local ballet productions. She studied dance in a Joffrey Ballet summer program in Chicago and sang in the International Children's Choir. When she was five years old, her family moved to Sandy, Utah, where she attended Peruvian Park Elementary and took advanced classes. Her grandfather, Ambler William Winstead, was a cousin of actress Ava Gardner. Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born on November 28, 1984, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, to Betty Lou (née Knight) and James Ronald Winstead and is the youngest of five children. Since 2013, Winstead has performed as music duo Got a Girl with Dan the Automator. Her other roles include the comedy drama All About Nina (2018), the action thriller film Gemini Man (2019), the Huntress in Birds of Prey (2020), and Hera Syndulla in the Star Wars series Ahsoka (2023). She reprised her role as Lucy Gennero-McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and returned to television with roles in the supernatural drama series The Returned (2015), the political satire science fiction comedy series BrainDead (2016), the period medical drama series Mercy Street (2016–17), and the third season of the black comedy-crime drama anthology series Fargo (2017), reprising her role as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (2023).

Winstead continued her Scream Queen roles in the sci-fi horror film The Thing (2011), as Mary Todd Lincoln in the fantasy horror film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), and in the psychological horror thriller film 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). Her critically acclaimed performance as an alcoholic struggling with sobriety in the Sundance drama Smashed (2012) was followed by a series of roles in other well-received independent films, including The Beauty Inside (2012), The Spectacular Now (2013), Faults (2014), Alex of Venice (2014), and Swiss Army Man (2016).

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She came to wider attention for her roles in the horror series Wolf Lake (2001–2002), the giant monster film Monster Island (2004), the supernatural horror film Final Destination 3 (2006), the slasher film Black Christmas (2006), and the exploitation horror film Death Proof (2007).įurther success came with her roles as John McClane's daughter Lucy Gennero-McClane in Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. She went on to appear in series such as Tru Calling (2004) and films including the superhero film Sky High (2005). Her first significant role was that of Jessica Bennett on the NBC soap opera Passions (1999–2000). Mary Elizabeth Winstead (born November 28, 1984) is an American actress.