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Steven Spielberg told Brian De Palma, her stepfather, that she needed to be in front of the camera. With Spielberg's advice, Brian got her an agent.

Has modeled for Guess, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch and Ralph Lauren.

From the ages of 7 to 11 years old she was the top child model in the USA. She is with Ford Models Los Angeles.

Ex-stepdaughter of film director Brian De Palma. He took her to a talent agency when she was just seven years old and the rest is history.

Having never played the piano, Willa had to learn to play a very difficult Chopin piece for the film Genova (2008) (aka A Summer in Genoa).

I'd love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love Mary Poppins (1964) - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

I like long floaty clothes that don't restrict me, and I live in flat boots.

I enjoyed The O.C. (2003) immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.

Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.

It's so much fun to play the bad girl. Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.