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ELISHA CUTHBERT BIOGRAPHY
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Elisha Cuthbert was born on November 30, 1982. She is a
Canadian film and television actress. Cuthbert is the former
co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular
Mechanics for Kids. In 1998, she had her first film role in
Airspeed. She followed this in 2003 with a role in Old
School. Her most prominent role is as Kim Bauer in the
American action-thriller television series 24. Since 2011,
she has been starring as Alex Kerkovich on the ABC comedy
series Happy Endings.
Elisha Cuthbert was born in Calgary, Alberta, daughter of
Patricia, a homemaker, and Kevin, an automotive design
engineer. She has two younger siblings, Jonathan and
Lee-Ann. She grew up in Greenfield Park, near Montreal,
Quebec. In 2000, she graduated from Centennial Regional High
School and moved to Los Angeles at 17 to act.
When Elisha Cuthbert was 9, Cuthbert started modeling
children's clothing and also became a foot model. She made
her first televised appearance as an extra in the horror-themed
series for children, Are You Afraid of the Dark?; she later
became a regular on the show. Cuthbert co-hosted Popular
Mechanics for Kids, filmed in Montreal. Her reporting
captured the attention of Hillary Clinton, who invited her
to the White House.
Elisha Cuthbert landed her first role in a feature film in
the family drama Dancing on the Moon (1997). She appeared in
other Canadian family movies and in an airplane thriller,
Airspeed. She starred in the Canadian television movie,
Lucky Girl, in 2001 and was awarded a Gemini Award for her
performance.
Soon after her move to Hollywood, Elisha Cuthbert was cast
as Kim Bauer, daughter of federal agent Jack Bauer, in the
television series 24. She appeared in the show's first three
seasons, but not in its fourth; she guest-starred in two
episodes in the fifth season. She also reprised her role as
Kim Bauer in 24: The Game and again guest-starred in five
episodes of the seventh season and in two episodes of the
eighth season
Elisha Cuthbert began her Hollywood film career with small
roles in Old School and Love Actually in 2003.
Elisha Cuthbert's next film, The Girl Next Door, was her
first lead role. She played an ex–porn star, Danielle,
opposite Emile Hirsch. She had reservations about the part,
but was persuaded by director Luke Greenfield. She
researched the role, speaking to adult actresses from Wicked
Pictures and Vivid Entertainment. The film was compared to
Risky Business, – although Cuthbert said her character was
not directly based on Rebecca De Mornay's. Critics were
divided; some praised the film for boldness, others, notably
Roger Ebert, called it gimmicky and exploitative. Ebert
wrote that he saw Cuthbert's character as "quite the most
unpleasant character I have seen in some time."
In her next film, Elisha Cuthbert starred with Paris Hilton
and Chad Michael Murray in the 2005 remake of the horror
film House of Wax. Cuthbert, with the rest of the cast, was
made up to look haggard. In one scene, her character was to
attempt to open her mouth while her lips were sealed with
glue. For realism, she used Superglue over prosthetics.
House of Wax was largely panned, critics citing a range of
flaws. It was called "notable for having some of the most
moronic protagonists ever to populate a horror film," though
of those characters, critics tended to think Cuthbert "fares
the best." Though receiving negative reviews the film was a
box office success. Others noted Cuthbert as an "exception,"
playing her role "earnestly" and "fine.
Elisha Cuthbert's next film was the indie film The Quiet She
was co-star and co-producer. She also and helped finance it.
She played Nina, a temperamental 17-year-old cheerleader who
suffers sexual abuse by her father. Cuthbert looked to her
younger cousin as inspiration for to how to play a teenager.
The Quiet, distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, premiered
at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival and received
a limited release in Los Angeles and New York City on August
25, 2006, before expanding regionally in the USA on
September 1.
Elisha Cuthbert appeared in the music video for Weezer's "Perfect
Situation" in early 2006, playing the group's fictional
original singer who threw a tantrum that led to Rivers
Cuomo, the roadie, becoming frontman of the band. Cuthbert
also had a small role in Paris Hilton's music video for the
song "Nothing In This World".
In 2007, Elisha Cuthbert appeared in Captivity, a thriller
centered ond a fashion model taunted by a psychopath who has
imprisoned her in a cellar, a role for which she was
nominated for a Razzie award as "worst actress."
In He Was a Quiet Man, Elisha Cuthbert played Vanessa, a
quadriplegic, starring with Christian Slater. The film was
in limited release in 2007, and it was released on DVD in
early 2008.
In 2008, Elisha Cuthbert appeared in My Sassy Girl, a remake
of a Korean film, starring with Jesse Bradford. Her next
film was the family comedy, The Six Wives of Henry Lefay,
with Tim Allen, in which she played his daughter. She
starred in the Canadian miniseries Guns. She was a judge in
season two, episode two of Project Runway Canada, in which
designers were challenged to create a "party dress" for her.
Elisha Cuthbert reprised her character Kim Bauer in the
seventh season of 24 for five episodes. She was also was to
star in the CBS drama pilot Ny-Lon, playing a New York
literacy teacher/record-store clerk who embarks on a
transatlantic romance with a London stockbroker. The project,
based on a British series starring Rashida Jones and Stephen
Moyer, was canceled.
Elisha Cuthbert is to voice Cleo, "the feline daughter of a
wealthy kitty litter baron," in Cat Tale, an animated film
set in a civilized world of cats and dogs.
In December 2009, ABC said Elisha Cuthbert had joined the
cast of The Forgotten in a recurring role as Maxine Denver,
a Chicago professional. Since 2011, Cuthbert has starred in
the ABC ensemble comedy series Happy Endings alongside Eliza
Coupe, Zachary Knighton, Adam Pally, Damon Wayans Jr. and
Casey Wilson. The series was picked up for a third season on
May 11, 2012.
Elisha Cuthbert regularly secures a place in FHM and Maxim's
annual "hottest women" lists. Her highest ranking was #4 in
the 2008 UK Edition of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World
list. She was ranked #14 in 2003, #10 in 2004, #5 in 2005,
#22 in 2006, #10 in 2007 and #7 in 2009. The U.S. Edition
ranked her #53 in 2003, #63 in 2004, and #54 in 2006. She
was not listed in the U.S. 2005 list. Cuthbert was ranked
#10 by AskMen.com readers in the list "Top 99 Women of
2007." Maxim named her #92 in its 2006 Hot 100 list, #6 in
2008, and #43 in 2009, #65 and the magazine features her in
its Girls of Maxim Gallery. BuddyTV ranked her #33 on its
TV's 100 Sexiest Women of 2011 list.
In 2005, Elisha Cuthbert maintained a blog on the National
Hockey League website, though she did not post for most of
the season. |
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