Mary Elizabeth Winstead Movies and Career Information

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (born November 28, 1984) is an American actress. Winstead has primarily been called a scream queen because of her roles in the horror films Final Destination 3, Death Proof, and The Thing. She has also branched out into other genre films Sky High, Bobby, Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0, Make It Happen, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her performance in Passions, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of the cast of Bobby. Winstead was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the daughter of Betty Lou (née Knight) and James Ronald Winstead. When she was five, her family moved to Sandy, Utah, a Salt Lake City suburb. Her interest in performing art also began to emerge with interests in ballet and acting. As a girl, Winstead appeared in the Mountain West Ballet's version of The Nutcracker. Hoping to become a ballerina in 1996, she received the opportunity to study dance in a summer program of the prestigious Joffrey Ballet School in Chicago, Illinois. There, she studied ballet and jazz dance, but decided to study acting. Winstead ended up appearing on Broadway during Donny Osmond’s successful