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Academy Awards, USA. 2013 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Beasts of the Southern Wild. At age 9 years and 135 days, Wallis is (to date) the youngest ever nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She earned this honor in the same year as the award's oldest ever nominee, Emmanuelle Riva.
Apr 24, 2024 · April 24, 2024. By Tyler Treese. ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Breathe star Quvenzhané Wallis about the intense thriller, which takes place on an Earth with an uninhabitable ...
Feb 2, 2013 · SBIFF 2013: Quvenzhané Wallis Talks BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, How Benh Zeitlin Helped with Her Performance, and More. This year, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest person ever to receive a ...
Sep 12, 2014 · Quvenzhané Wallis’s career started with a little fib: that she was 6 years old. It was the minimum age to audition for the lead role in “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and she was just shy.
Oct 15, 2020 · Quvenzhané Wallis was born in Houma, La., and is the youngest of four children, according to the New York Times.Her name, pronounced "Kwah-ven-zha-nay," comes from a combination of her parents ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Quvenzhané Wallis shares insights on working with Jennifer Hudson, forming bonds on set, and potential future musical aspirations. Breathe is a new post-apocalyptic thriller that follows a Brooklyn family in a world without oxygen. Surviving in an underground bunker after the above ground has become uninhabitable, a mother and daughter's ...
Quvenzhané Wallis. Actress: Beasts of the Southern Wild. Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Qulyndreia (Jackson) Wallis, a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck driver. She has one sister, Qunyquekya, and two brothers, Vejon and Venjie, Jr. "Quven", the first part of her name, combines the first syllables of her parents' first names.
