Part of Spider-Verse featuring Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland, Emma Stone, and Zendaya.
Rise to Fame
She was 12 when she played Claudia in Interview with the Vampire, holding her own opposite Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in one of the stranger child performances of the decade. That got her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress and established she was actually good at this. Bring It On (2000) kept her name in circulation before Spider-Man (2002) made her a franchise anchor through three films. Most people remember the upside-down rain kiss. The studio remembered she sold tickets.
In the Spotlight
She won Best Actress at Cannes in 2011 for Melancholia and didn't get an Oscar nomination. She has called awards "pretty much all bulls*it," which tracks. Fargo Season 2 (2015) earned her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for a completely different kind of work. Her first actual Academy Award nomination came in 2022, for The Power of the Dog, shot with Jesse Plemons, her now-husband. The industry's periodic rediscovery of her output says more about the industry than about her.
Side Notes
At 25, she checked herself into Cirque Lodge in Utah for depression, something she's talked about publicly. She has described "repressing all this anger" from years of absorbing Hollywood's demands without pushing back. She was doing commercials at 3, her family relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles when she was 11, and she was 12 when she was the most watchable person in Interview with the Vampire. Hollywood didn't consider any of that too much. She eventually did.