Acting since she stumbled into one of her mother's TV commercial auditions at age three and booked the job herself, Mae Whitman has amassed an admirable body of work before her tenth birthday. The cute dark-haired actress with expressive eyes has also managed to avoid playing cloying or stereotypical screen kids. She is recalled for playing the youngest daughter of Andy Garcia and Meg Ryan in "When a Man Loves a Woman" (1994), the plucky child of a US president (Bill Pullman) in the blockbuster "Independence Day" (1996) and as George Clooney's daughter in the genial comedy "One Fine Day"
