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Quote: "I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie."
Early Life and Career
Elisha Ann Curthbert was born in Calgary, Alberta Canada but later moved and grew up in the Greenfield Park district in Longueuil (south shore of Montreal) Quebec Canada. When she was seven, Cuthbert started modeling for various lines for children's clothing and became an extra in the horror tv show for children Are you Afraid of the Dark which later on she became a series regular. Cuthbert also co-hosted in the Popular Mechanics for kids which was filmed in Montreal. Her reporting captured the attention of the first lady Hillary Clinton, who invited her to visit the White House. Cuthbert landed her first role in a feature film in the family drama Dancing on the Moon (1997). She appeared in several other Canadian family-themed movies and an airplane thriller, Airspeed. Cuthbert starred in the Canadian television movie Lucky Girl in 2001 and was awarded a Gemini Award for her performance. Soon after her move to Los Angeles, Cuthbert was cast in the role of Kim Bauer, daughter of CTU agent Jack Bauer in the television series 24. She appeared in the show's first three seasons, but not in its fourth; she guest-starred in only two episodes in the fifth season. She also reprised her role as Kim Bauer in 24 The Game. She has also said that she would like to play her role as Kim in the upcoming movie 24 The Movie.
For 2008, Cuthbert is scheduled to appear in two films. The first is the family comedy The Six Wives of Henry LeFay with actor Tim Allen, in which she plays his daughter. She will also appear in My Sassy Girl,which is originally a Korean film being remade, starring alongside Jesse Bradford. She is one of the stars in the Canadian mini-series Guns, due to premiere sometime in 2008. Cuthbert will reprise her character Kim Bauer in the seventh season of 24.
She regularly secures a place in FHM and Maxim's annual Top 100 Sexiest/Hottest lists. Her highest ranking was #4 in the 2008 UK Edition of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World list. She was ranked #14 in 2003, #10 in 2004, #5 in 2005, #22 in 2006, and #10 in 2007. The U.S. Edition ranked her #53 in 2003, #63 in 2004, and #54 in 2006. She was not listed in the U.S. 2005 list. Maxim named her #92 in its 2006 Hot 100 list, and features her in their Girls of Maxim Gallery.[28][29] As of 2006, Cuthbert has stated that she would refuse to be photographed nude in film roles or magazines, and uses body doubles whenever necessary, specifying that she would "like to keep some things to (herself)". Most recently, Cuthbert was ranked #10 by AskMen.com readers in the list "Top 99 Women of 2007".
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