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Wallis's performance drew widespread acclaim and Zeitlin won the Caméra d'Or, the festival's award for best first feature film. On January 10, 2013, at age nine, Wallis was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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.
Apr 25, 2024 · Quvenzhané Wallis was only 9 years old when she attended the Oscars for the first time, which probably explains why her only lasting memories of the night are eating candy and meeting two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington.Washington was attending as a Best Actor nominee for Flight; Wallis was there as a nominee too — the youngest Best Actress nominee in Oscars history — for her stirring ...
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Oct 29, 2021 · Beasts of the Southern Wild Oscar nominee Quvenzhané Wallis is all grown up in her Apple TV+ series Swagger. Wallis, who holds the record for the youngest Best Actress Oscar nominee ever (she...
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.
Aug 28, 2003 · Wallis is the first African-American child actor and is also the first person born in the 21st century to receive an Academy Award nomination. In May 2014, Wallis was named the face of Armani Junior, Giorgio Armani's line for children and teens. This makes her the first major child celebrity to be the face of a luxury brand.
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Quvenzhané, you once said that you approached your Oscar-nominated role in Beasts of the Southern Wild without fear because at nine years old, you didn’t really feel nerves in that way. Is that still true for you these days? I would love to be able to say that that's true for me now!
Quvenzhané Wallis is an Academy Award-nominated actress whose talents and command of the screen go beyond her young age. Originally from Houma, Louisiana, Quvenzhané got her big break at the age of five when she auditioned for the lead role in “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” where she beat out over four thousand other candidates and went ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Quvenzhané Wallis, who stars in the new post-apocalyptic thriller Breathe alongside Jennifer Hudson, discusses what it was like working on the film.
