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Agnes Bruckner (born August 16, 1985) is
an American film and television actress. She began
acting on television in the late 1990s and has since
appeared in several Hollywood films, including 2007's
Blood and Chocolate.
Early life: Bruckner was born in Hollywood,
California to a Hungarian father and a Russian mother
who have since divorced; her paternal grandfather was
German. Her parents met in Hungary and immigrated to the
U.S. in 1984 through a refugee camp in Italy. She has
two sisters and a brother.
Bruckner speaks some Russian and is fluent in Hungarian,
having grown up speaking the language. She has been
involved in dance, ballet, and tap since the age of five
and initially wanted to pursue a career as a dancer.
At the age of 8, Bruckner worked as a
child model at the suggestion of her mother, and also
appeared in a beauty pageant. Bruckner grew up in Los
Feliz, Los Angeles, California and then lived in
Portland, Oregon from age five to 10. She returned with
her family to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career,
moving to Burbank, California.
Career: Bruckner began her career at age 11. She
appeared in commercials, a few television pilots, and on
the daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in
1999. At the age of 15, Bruckner got her first lead role
in the independent film Blue Car (2002), in which she
played a high school student involved in an affair with
her teacher, played by David Strathairn.
Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that
Bruckner "negotiates this difficult script with
complete conviction." Bruckner received an
Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best
Female Lead" for the role.
the 2000s, other minor roles in television and film
followed, including roles in The Glass House (2001), and
the thriller Murder by Numbers (2002) starring Sandra
Bullock. Bruckner has appeared in episodes of the
television series 24 and Alias. She starred in the
horror films Venom, which was released to a generally
negative reviews in September, 2005, and in The Woods,
which received a direct-to-video release in 2006. The
same year she appeared in the drama Peaceful Warrior,
opposite Scott Mechlowicz and received a ShoWest Female
Star of Tomorrow Award.
In 2007, Bruckner appeared in the horror/romance film,
Blood and Chocolate, in which she plays a werewolf. She
will next appear in Last Resort, a psychological
thriller.
Personal life: As of 2007, Bruckner is single.
She enjoys hip hop, R&B and rap music, as well as
The Killers and The Fray. Bruckner has stated that she
does not participate in "the Hollywood part of
Hollywood", and travels or lives at home with her
family during her free time. As of 2007, her father
lives in Hungary. |
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