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Quvenzhane Wallis - Biography
Yet, director Benh Zeitlin was sufficiently impressed that Quvenzhane, pronounced Kwa-van-je-nay, beat 4,000 other hopefuls to the part and he changed the script to fit her forceful personality. Of working with her, he said: "It was as if you sat a five-year-old down at a piano and she played Mozart. It was the way that she could take these scenes and internalise them and express them in such a fierce way, with such focus and emotion." Nazie (Naysie), as she's known at home, is one of four children born to Venjie Sr. and Qulyndreia Wallis. She came into the world on August 28, 2003, in Houma, Louisiana, where the film is set. In the story, the locals are struggling to cope after Hurricane Katrina blows through, making an area that didn't have a lot to start with an awful lot poorer. At the centre of the devastation is Quvenzhane's character Hushpuppy, who is being raised alone by her father because her mother has gone missing. So mesmerising was her performance that in 2013 she became the youngest person ever to win a best ac
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Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Qulyndreia (Jackson) Wallis, a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck driver. She has one sister, Qunyquekya, and two brothers, Vejon and Venjie, Jr. "Quven", the first part of her name, combines the first syllables of her parents' first names. Wallis, at age five, auditioned for her very first acting job, the starring role in Beasts of the Southern Wild, even though the minimum age to be considered was six. She eventually beat out 4,000 others for the role of Hushpuppy, the indomitable child prodigy and survivalist who lives with her dying father in the backwoods bayou squalor of Louisiana. At that time, she was just six years old during the filming. Wallis is 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.
BornAugust 28, 2003
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Quvenzhané Wallis
Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Qulyndreia (Jackson) Wallis, a teacher, and Venjie Wallis, Sr., a truck driver. She has one sister, Qunyquekya, and two brothers, Vejon and Venjie, Jr. "Quven", the first part of her name, combines the first syllables of her parents' first names. Wallis, at age five, auditioned for her very first acting job, the starring role in Beasts of the Southern Wild, even though the minimum age to be considered was six. She eventually beat out 4,000 others for the role of Hushpuppy, the indomitable child prodigy and survivalist who lives with her dying father in the backwoods bayou squalor of Louisiana. At that time, she was just six years old during the filming. Wallis is 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.
Wallis was born in Houma, Louisiana, to Qulyndreia (Jackson) Wallis, a te
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