Abigail Breslin Biography
Abigail Kathleen Breslin is an American actress and singer. Her first role began acting in Signs (2002), at the age of five, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. She also was in Raising Helen (2004) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), she garnered critical acclaim for her performance as Olive Hoover in the road comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which she earned nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best supporting Actress, and won the screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture and the Critics’ choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer.
She went and starred in the romantic-comedy No Reservations (2007), for which she was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award, Nim’s Island (2008), Definitely, Maybe (2008), My sister’s keeper (2009), Zombieland (2009), Rango (2011), The call (2013), August: Osage County (2013), and Zombieland: Double Tap (2019). Between 2015 and 2016, she starred on the horror-comedy scream Queens on Fox, her first regular role in a television series.
How old is Abigail Breslin?- Age
The American actress is 25 years old as of 14th April 2021. She was born in 1996 in New York City, United States.
Who are Abigail Breslin Parents? – Father and mother
The Actress is the daughter of Kim, a talent manager, and the late Michael Breslin, a telecommunications expert, computer programmer, and consultant. Her father died as a result of COVID-19 on February 26, 2021.
Abigail Breslin Siblings
The actress has two older brothers, Ryan Breslin who was born in 1985 and Spencer Breslin born in 1992, who are also actors. The Breslin siblings were raised in New York in a “very close-knit” household. She is named after Abigail Adams, the second First Lady of the United States. Their father was of Jewish heritage.
Is Abigail Breslin in a relationship? – Spouse
The American actress is currently dating Ira Kunyanksy since April 2017. The actress kept her relationship private. However, we found out some interesting facts about the couple. Though the actress never talks about her boyfriend, Ira Kunyansky, the actress’ romance is quite evident on her social media.
Abigail Breslin Career
The American actress’s career began at the age of three when she appeared in a Toys ”R” Us commercial. Her first acting role was in Signs (2002), where she played Bo Hess, the daughter of the main character, Graham Hess. Breslin’s performance in the film was praised by critics. In 2004, the actress appeared in Raising Helen, in which she and her brother Spencer played siblings, but the film fared poorly.
Breslin’s breakthrough role was in the 2006 comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine, where she played Olive Hoover, a beauty pageant contestant, the youngest in a dysfunctional family on a road trip. She was cast at the age of six, years before filming was started. She received nominations for the screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best supporting Actress, becoming the fourth youngest actress to be nominated in that category.
Although Jennifer Hudson won the Oscar, Breslin co-presented with actor Jaden Smith at the 79th Academy Awards on February 25, 2007. The actress was part of the Disney Year of a Million Dreams celebration. Annie Leibovitz photographed her as Fira from Disney Fairies with Dame Julie Andrews as the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio.
On October 27, 2007, the actress made her stage debut in the play Right You Are, in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum starring in an ensemble cast, including Cate Blanchett, Dianne Wiest, Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard. In 2007, she was ranked No. 8 in Forbes magazine’s list of “Young Hollywood’s Top-Earning Stars”, having earned $1.5 million in 2006.
The actress next appeared in the 2007 romantic comedy No Reservations, playing the niece of master chef Kate Armstrong. The film garnered mostly negative reviews but was successful at the box office, grossing $92 million worldwide. In 2007, she also starred in Definitely, Maybe, as the daughter of a recently divorced father; the film garnered generally favorable reviews, with Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer writing that Breslin is “alarmingly cute – but she backs the cuteness up with serious acting instinct.”
In 2008, the actress starred with Jodie Foster in the film Nim’s Island as Nim Rusoe, a young girl who lives on a remote tropical island. Nim’s Island received mixed reviews but was successful financially, grossing $100 million worldwide. With previews beginning in February 2010, she made her Broadway debut as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, an advocacy group for blind and deaf actors, criticized the play’s producers for not casting a deaf or blind actor in the role.
In 2013, she appeared in the thriller The Call. The film received mixed reviews from critics. The Call grossed $68 million worldwide. In 2013, Breslin also appeared in Haunter in the role of Lisa, a ghost who bonds with a future girl living in her house to stop an evil killing spirit with the help of his many victims.
The actress also starred in the film adaption of Orson Scott Card’s novel, Ender’s Game. The film received mixed reviews from critics but it was a disappointment at the box office, grossing only $125 million worldwide from a $110 million budget. In July 2012, she was cast in August: Osage county, the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, alongside Julia Roberts, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Meryl Streep. August: Osage County was released in December 2013, and received mostly positive reviews. In 2014, Breslin appeared in the crime drama Perfect sisters. In January 2015, she was cast in Fox’s horror-comedy series Scream Queens, which aired from September 2015 to December 2016. In 2019, Breslin reprised her role as Little Rock in Zombieland: Double Tap. She is next set to star opposite Matt Damon in Stillwater directed by Tom McCarthy.
Abigail Breslin Net worth
The American actress has an estimated net worth of around $8 million as of 2021.