Watch Out For Sofia Vassilieva in ‘Hurt’

Photos were posted on 31 Oct 2009 at 2:37pm

She was a presenter of Family Feature Film on 19th Genesis Award 2005, which was broadcast on “Animal planet” on May 14 & 15, 2005.

She was nominated for a Syfyportal Genre Award as best young actor/actress for her role in Medium, lost the award to Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe.

Discovered at the IMTA in New York in 2000, where she won 7 awards including the title of Child Actress and first runner-up Child Model Of The Year.

Is a vegetarian since 2004.

When she was 3, she started speaking French and reading in Russian and English, being fluent in these three languages, she now enjoys studying Spanish and American Sign Language.

Started taking ballet at 3, gymnastics at 5, playing piano at 7, riding horses at 10, and recently became fascinated by yoga.

At the age of 13 her favorite movie was In Love and War (1996) and later Andrew Rublyoy (1966), Solvaris (1972), and Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky and La Mome (2007) by Oliver Dahan with Marion Cotillard. More recently it is 12 (2007) by Nikita Mikhalkov.

Beat out Dakota Fanning to the Eloise role in the Eloise movies.

At the age of 13, her favorite singer was Shakira, and later Sia Furler.

Her mother has a Ph.D in Behavioral and Evolutionary Genetics and father has a Ph.D in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics.

Sofia’s Maltese “Mefodi” appears as the dog in the hands of a Plaza girl during Eloise at Christmastime (2003) (TV).

By 14, she has already visited Italy, Austria, France, Canada, England, Japan, Spain, and Russia including Siberia.

Before moving to Los Angeles at 11, she lived in Minnesota, Oregon, Arizona and Utah.

She skipped one grade in Elementary School in 1999, before her success and winning the Child Actress award on IMTA 2000, i.e. before her real interest in acting began.

Was born at 2:22 and 22 sec. pm, CDT.

Accepted the part of Kate in My Sisters Keeper (2009) after Dakota Fanning stepped down, upon refusing to shave her head for the part - according to rumors.

Was offered the part of Claire in The Clique (2008) (V), but bowed out due to scheduling conflicts.

Source- imdb

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