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former child star whose flame continued to burn bright into
her teen years, blonde beauty Elisha Cuthbert has
successfully carried the success from Popular Mechanics for
Kids and Are You Afraid of the Dark? into a featured role on
the hit FOX series 24 and a successful film career. A
Calgary native who landed her first modeling job at the
tender age of seven, it was a mere four years later that
Cuthbert instinctively knew that she wanted to spend the
rest of her days in front of the lens. Following an
appearance in the 1997 feature Dancing on the Moon, Cuthbert
landed a job as a field correspondent for the acclaimed
Canadian television series Popular Mechanics for Kids, and
her reporting proved so effective that she caught the
attention of first lady Hillary Clinton, who invited
Cuthbert to Washington for a meeting.
Though she spent the majority of her youth in Montreal,
Cuthbert moved to Los Angeles at age 17 in order to pursue
an acting career. Featured roles as a reluctant pilot in
Airspeed (1998) and a time traveling teen in Time at the Top
(1999) were soon to follow, and by the time Cuthbert joined
the cast of Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? in
1999, it was obvious that her talent was growing. Her role
in the made-for-Canadian-television feature Lucky Girl only
furthered her reputation as a dramatically capable rising
starlet, and her distinct onscreen facial expressions and
convincing performance soon caught the eyes of producers who
were preparing a new thriller series for FOX. Cast as Jack
Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) damsel-in-distress daughter,
Kimberly, in the breakout hit 24, Cuthbert's character
suffered through multiple kidnappings and a mountain lion
attack over the course of the series' first two seasons. In
the episode of 24 in which she shared a scene with the
mountain lion, Cuthbert made news when the beast actually
attacked her on the film set, sending the frightened actress
on a trip to the hospital with an injured hand. On the heels
of 24, Cuthbert took a supporting role in the comedy Old
School before appearing in the subsequent romantic comedies
Love Actually (2003) and The Girl Next Door (2004), the
latter of which found her taking the lead as an ex-porn star
who becomes the object of affection to a lonely suburban boy
unaware of her past.
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former child star whose flame continued to burn bright into
her teen years, blonde beauty Elisha Cuthbert has
successfully carried the success from Popular Mechanics for
Kids and Are You Afraid of the Dark? into a featured role on
the hit FOX series 24 and a successful film career. A
Calgary native who landed her first modeling job at the
tender age of seven, it was a mere four years later that
Cuthbert instinctively knew that she wanted to spend the
rest of her days in front of the lens. Following an
appearance in the 1997 feature Dancing on the Moon, Cuthbert
landed a job as a field correspondent for the acclaimed
Canadian television series Popular Mechanics for Kids, and
her reporting proved so effective that she caught the
attention of first lady Hillary Clinton, who invited
Cuthbert to Washington for a meeting. 
