Interesting Facts About Actress Agnes Bruckner

Agnes Bruckner is a Hollywood actress best known for her breakout role as a vulnerable high school student in the 2002 Karen Moncrieff film Blue Car. Since her role in Blue Car, she has appeared in 11 movies which include the Sundance hit Dreamland, and most recently was seen in the 2007 horror romance film Blood and Chocolate. But besides her feature film roles, what other interesting facts can be learned about actress Agnes Bruckner?

Some interesting, yet basic, Agnes Bruckner facts include being born in August of 1985 where after she spent most of her youth in the Valley of California. Her mother was born in Russia, her father in Hungary. Although, her surname is actually of German origin. Bruckner's parents came to the United States as refugees about a year before Agnes was born. In an interview with Movies Online, the actress says her parents ended up in the Los Angeles area because her mother wanted to move to "wherever Disneyland is".

It was also her mother who got her started in the acting business. She got a young start as a television actress when she was cast at age 11 as "Bridget Forrester" on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. But at this stage of her acting career, and despite the fact she describes herself as "always loving to be in front of the camera", she has said she was mostly just following the wishes of her mother.

It would be four more years before she would discover her own passion for becoming an actress. During an interview with Michael J. Lee of Radio Free Entertainment, she says she "fell in love with it" after working on the movie Blue Car.

Before becoming an actress though, she had dreams of being a dancer.

A few other interesting facts about actress Agnes Bruckner:

She is a fan of actor Jack Nicholson, she loves sweets like lollipops, she enjoys traveling to Italy, she is not into the Hollywood party scene, and she speaks Hungarian fluently.

Agnes Bruckner currently has three films in the works. Fans should look for her upcoming films Say Hello to Stan Talmadge, The Gift, and Kill Theory (aka Last Resort) to (hopefully) premiere in 2008.

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Movies Online, "Agnes Bruckner Interview, Blood & Chocolate". URL: (http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_11105.html)

Lee, Michael J. Radio Free Entertainment, "Agnes Bruckner on Blood and Chocolate". URL: (http://movies.radiofree.com/interviews/bloodand_agnes_bruckner.shtml)

AOL.com, "Hollywood Rising: The Agnes Bruckner Interview".
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