Raised primarily in Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Moved with mother to Los Angeles

Appeared in Michael Jackson's music video "Childhood"

Made screen debut in Anjelica Huston's "Bastard Out of Carolina" (Showtime); nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance and a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance

Cast as Beau Bridges' daughter in the Showtime movie "Hidden in America"

Relocated to NYC (date approximate)

Played a young Jodie Foster in the Robert Zemeckis film, "Contact"

Appeared in Goldie Hawn's directorial debut, "Hope" (TNT); nominated for a Golden Globe Award

Played Susan Sarandon's daughter in the family drama, "Stepmom"

Cast as Kelly Preston's daughter in "For Love of the Game"

Sued mother for alleged mishandling of earnings and mismanagement of career; became an emancipated minor

Starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in "Donnie Darko"; screened at the Sundance Film Festival

Acted opposite Mary Stuart Masterson in the drama "The Book of Stars"

Co-starred as a precocious teenager in "Life as a House"

Portrayed Geli Raubal in the television movie "Hitler: The Rise of Evil"

Co-starred with Ryan Gosling and Kevin Spacey in "The United States of Leland"

Starred as a girl attending a Baptist high school who becomes pregnant in "Saved"

Cast as one of five sisters, opposite Keira Knightley in "Pride and Prejudice"

Made her Broadway debut as Sister James in John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt"

Cast in Sean Penn's adaptation of the non-fiction book, "Into the Wild" starring Emile Hirsch

Co-starred in the horror film "The Ruins" along with Shawn Ashmore and Johnathan Tucker