Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, born to Nancy and Frank Chlumsky. She is best-known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.

Personal

Chlumsky graduated from Walther Lutheran High School. Chlumsky also graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002 and had worked in New York City as a researcher for Zagat, a restaurant review company, for a short while.

In October 2007, Chlumsky announced her engagement to Shaun So, of the US Army Reserve, who served in Afghanistan. They were married on March 8, 2008.

Career

She entered show business at an early age modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.

She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, and screen tested for the part of 'Lex' in Jurassic Park which eventually went to Ariana Richards.

Columbia Pictures expressed serious interest in My Girl 3 (also known as Still My Girl) and a script has been in development since 2003, according to series costar Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd revealed in media outlets that Columbia was attempting to sign Chlumsky for the role.^[1] The project is still in development stages, with no current updates in four years.

Chlumsky appeared on the March 8, 2007 episode of 30 Rock called "The Fighting Irish." She played the character "Liz Lemler". She also appeared as "Mary Calvin" in an episode of the NBC drama series Law & Order (Season 17, Episode 12) first airing January 12, 2007. She was also in three episodes of the ABC dramedy Cupid

Chlumsky stars in the Off-Broadway production of Unconditional by Brett C. Leonard at The Public Theater. It is being put up by Philip Seymour Hoffman's theater group, LAByrinth Theater Company, which opened on February 2008.

She's also in BBC Films' political satire In The Loop, co-starring with The Sopranos' James Gandolfini ^[2]. She plays Liza, a State Department assistant in the movie directed by Armando Iannucci and scheduled to open in 2009.

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Anna Chlumsky at the Internet Movie Database
• Anna Chlumsky at TV.com
• Where Are They Now? article on Anna Chlumsky