I just this article about Anna:
Most child actors burn out or fade away. At 12, Anna Kendrick earned a Tony Award nomination for Broadway’s “High Society” in 1998, becoming the third-youngest nominee after Daisy Eagan, 11 (1991, “The Secret Garden”) and Frankie Michaels, 10 (1966, “Mame”), both of whom won. While those two worthies went on to amass, respectively, few and no other credits, Kendrick has had a steady rise that finds her “Up in the Air.”
That’s the title of the serio-comic film in which George Clooney and she spar as reluctant mentor and protege in a corporate-downsizing consulting firm. The Portland, Maine, native matches Clooney blow for blow, earning a best supporting actress Golden Globe nomination and showing the talent she’s demonstrated in such disparate roles as a manipulative, high-school debater barracuda in “Rocket Science” (2007) and boy-crazy best friend Jessica in “Twilight” films.
Kendrick, now 24, spoke at the Waldorf Towers in Manhattan.
Read interview here »
also here is another “Up in the Air” review I came through:
Best movies of 2009:
“Up in the Air”
George Clooney is certainly the most famous and valuable face of this movie, but credit for its success also goes to the real jobless people seen in cameo.
They’re mixed into this smart, funny, thought-provoking look at a man who travels lightly through life, both literally and figuratively, as he helps companies fire people. Bliss for him is spending 322 days a year on the road in airports, rental cars and hotels that look exactly alike, no matter the city.
The excellent supporting cast includes Kendrick, Vera Farmiga and Jason Bateman but, best of all, it takes the screenplay road less traveled. You may think you know the destination, but it veers into slightly more dramatic and daring territory. In theaters now.
