A SEASONED performer from the age of seven, Wood, 20, the daughter of actors Ira David Wood and Sara Lynn Moore, is not known for playing it safe.
Consider her roles as an out-of-control teen in writer-director Catherine Hardwicke's hard-hitting drama Thirteen (2003) and as a scheming student who accuses her teacher of sexual harassment in Pretty Persuasion (2005). Neither film could be described as wholesome family fodder.
But she showed range beyond juvenile delinquent parts, playing Cate Blanchett's kidnapped daughter in The Missing (2004), one of Joan Allen's feisty daughters in The Upside Of Anger (2005) and, most recently, singing as a lovelorn teenager in the Beatles-inspired musical film Across The Universe (2007). Always evolving, always interesting.
In her own words: 'I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster going from child to adult actress.'
Must see: Thirteen (2003), Pretty Persuasion (2005) and Across The Universe (2007)
Look out for: Phantasmagoria: The Visions Of Lewis Carroll directed by Wood's 39-year-old shock-rocker boyfriend Marilyn Manson and the biopic Bronte about British novelist Charlotte Bronte.
Say it isn't so: She received her black belt in tae kwon do at the age of 12.
