Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky is an American actress. She is known for her childhood role in My Girland its sequel, as well as her supporting role in the HBO series Veep, for which she has received four consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also starred in independent films such as Blood Carand In the Loop...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth3 December 1980
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.
From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.
Whenever people are excited about 'My Girl', I always think if I met the kids from 'The Neverending Story.' I would probably be the same way.
When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
It's kind of weird because in the pictures and stuff they fill in some stuff that they don't like, like your teeth. It's funny when you first see the poster and you want to pick out the stuff that's different, but you get used to it after a while. It's just, oh, that's me! It's kind of cool after a while.
I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.
You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.
A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
Supposedly I haven't changed.
In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.
Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.
I was an international studies major.