Biografia

She was discovered by Fran Walsh - who was looking for a teenage actress to play Pauline Parker in Almas Gêmeas (1994) - during an exhaustive search of New Zealand high schools, just two weeks before filming was due to commence.

Close friend Emily Deschanel was a bridesmaid at her wedding.

Announced to Hollywood Today Live (2015) on Thursday, February 16, 2017, that she is engaged to her boyfriend of four years, actor Jason Ritter. They later married sometime before December 2018.

Has a daughter (b. December 2018) with her husband, Jason Ritter.

Friends with Clea DuVall and Natasha Lyonne, both of whom she worked with in Nunca Fui Santa (1999).

[on life after Almas Gêmeas (1994)] I think the hardest thing was to go back to school. It's a pretty catty environment at an all-girls school and things happened. For example, 60 Minutes (1993) came to do a story on me and followed me around for a day. At school you just don't need that. And then I would have to go to New York or Sydney for a week and take time out. And while they were amazing experiences, it was hard because I had these two completely separate lives. I think a lot of people resented that. It put me outside of them a bit.

You always see those movies that have amazing casts, and it's funny to be in one of them. It's a list of all these fantastic people--and, oh, me as well.

If I ever have time off and don't know what's coming up next, I get really nervous and think, 'Oh well, it's probably over.'

I always thought I'd be in New Zealand doing theater. Everything I've done is greater than my greatest dreams.

[on the success of Dois Homens e Meio (2003)] It seems funny to me that it's all worked so well. I have so much respect for the people who do this. It's so hard to keep the energy up and to make people laugh.