- Golden Globe Awards
QUVENZHANÉ WALLIS (Annie)
Quvenzhané Wallis stumbled into a stellar acting career with a lie: back in early 2009, when she was a mere five years old, she assured director Benh Zeitlin that she was, in fact, a mature six year old girl – the minimum age to be considered for a role in Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. The production was holding auditions in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, close to Quvenzhané’s hometown, Houma, and her family supported Quvenzhané’s sudden acting urge, taking her to try her luck against 4,000 other aspiring stars.