| Anna Chlumsky | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 3, 1980 Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Spouse | Shaun So (2008–present) |
Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980) is an American actress best known for playing Veda Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2. Her father, Frank Chlumsky, is an instructor in the culinary program at Kendall College in Chicago. Her surname (pronounced kh-lum-skee) is Polish in origin.
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Chlumsky entered show business at an early age, modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. Her roles in My Girl and My Girl 2 brought her fame.
She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, and screen tested for the part of Lex in Jurassic Park, which eventually went to Ariana Richards.
Columbia Pictures expressed serious interest in My Girl 3 (also known as Still My Girl) and a script has been in development since 2003, according to series costar Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd revealed in media outlets that Columbia was attempting to sign Chlumsky for the role.[1] The project is still in development, with no updates in seven years.
Chlumsky never intended acting to be her lifelong career. As a child she considered working with horses or in paleontology. Once she reached adulthood, roles became scarce and she began to move away from acting. She attended the University of Chicago, majoring in International Studies, and graduated with an AB in 2002. During this time she ceased paying dues to the Screen Actors Guild. After graduation she worked as a fact-checker for the Zagat Survey and served as an editorial assistant for a HarperCollins science fiction-fantasy imprint. She came to find this work unsatisfying and decided she wanted to return to acting. She went to the Atlantic Acting School in Manhattan to receive more formal training (in her youth she deemed herself "a natural", so had not had as much formal training ) and now intends to remain an actor.[2]
Chlumsky appeared on the March 8, 2007, episode of 30 Rock, called "The Fighting Irish", as Liz Lemler. She appeared as Mary Calvin in an episode of the NBC drama series Law & Order (Season 17, Episode 12) first airing on January 12, 2007, and as Lisa Klein in an episode (Season 20, Episode 16) first airing March 15, 2010.[3] She was in three episodes of the ABC dramedy Cupid.
Chlumsky starred in the Off Broadway production of Unconditional by Brett C. Leonard at The Public Theater. It was produced by Philip Seymour Hoffman's theater group, LAByrinth Theater Company, which opened on February 2008. She also starred in Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead in November 2005 at the American Theatre of Actors in New York City. [4]
She appeared in the BBC Films political satire In The Loop, costarring with James Gandolfini.[5] She plays Liza, a State Department assistant in the movie, directed by Armando Iannucci.
On December 3, 2010, it was announced that Chlumsky would play the chief of staff of Julia Louis-Dreyfus's vice president in Veep.[6]
Chlumsky graduated from Walther Lutheran High School, and in 2002 from the University of Chicago. In October 2007, she announced her engagement to Shaun So. They were married on March 8, 2008. "Shaun's family is Chinese, and my family is Catholic. So we're going to do a fusion of the two cultural traditions", Chlumsky said at the Condé Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards.[7]
She has a younger brother, Frank Chlumsky, who goes to Saint Ignatius College Prep in Chicago.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Uncle Buck | School Child | Film |
| 1991 | My Girl | Vada Margaret Sultenfuss | Film MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Macaulay Culkin) Nominated — MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo (shared with Macaulay Culkin) |
| 1994 | My Girl 2 | Vada Sultenfuss | Film |
| 1994 | Trading Mom | Elizabeth Martin | Film |
| 1995 | Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain | Jody Salerno | Film Young Artist Awards for Best Young Leading Actress in a Feature Film |
| 1997 | A Child's Wish | Missy Chandler | TV movie |
| 1997 | Miracle in the Woods | Gina Weatherby / Field Pea | TV movie |
| 1998 | Cupid | Jill | TV episode: "Meat Market" |
| 1998 | Early Edition | Megan Clark | TV episode: "Teen Angels" |
| 2005 | Wait | Cara | Film (short) |
| 2007 | Eight Days a Week | Riley McGann | TV series (unaired) |
| 2007 | 30 Rock | Liz Lemler | TV episode: "The Fighting Irish" |
| 2007 | Law & Order | Mary Calvin | TV episode: "Charity Case" |
| 2007 | Blood Car | Lorraine | Film |
| 2008 | Eavesdrop | Chelsea | Film |
| 2009 | House Rules | Scotty Fisher | TV movie |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Liza Weld | Film |
| 2009 | The Good Guy | Lisa | Film |
| 2009 | Cupid | Josie | TV episodes: "My Fair Masseuse", "Shipping Out", "The Tommy Brown Affair", "The Great Right Hope" |
| 2009 | My Sweet Misery | Chloe | Film |
| 2009 | 12 Men of Christmas | Jan Lucas | TV movie |
| 2010 | The Quinn-tuplets | Rachel Quinn | TV movie (unaired) |
| 2010 | Civil Unions: A Love Story | n/a | Film (short) |
| 2010 | Law & Order | Lisa Klein/Mary Calvin | TV episodes: "Innocence", "Charity Case" |
| 2010 | Covert Affairs | Vivian Long | TV episode: "I Can't Quit You Baby" |
| 2011 | Lights Out | Charlie | TV episodes: "Headgames", "The Shot" |
| 2011 | Three Weeks, Three Kids | Jennifer Mills | TV Movie |
| 2011 | The Pill | Nelly | Film (Post-production) |
| 2011 | White Collar | Agent Melissa Matthews | TV episodes: "Where There's a Will", "Countdown" |
| 2012 | Bert and Arnie's Guide to Friendship | Sabrina | Film (post-production) |
| 2012 | Veep | Amy | TV series Pilot (filming) |
| 2013 | Sam | Margaret | Film (Pre-production) |