Abigail Breslin

Abigail Breslin

Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Born and raised in New York City, Breslin began acting in commercials when she was three years old and made her film debut in M. Night Shyamalan's science fiction horror film Signs (2002), at the age of five, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award. Following early roles in Raising Helen (2004) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004), Breslin garnered critical acclaim for her performance as Olive Hoover in the road comedy-drama Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which she earned nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Breslin went on to establish herself as a leading child actress with roles in the romantic-comedy No Reservations (2007), for which she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Award, Nim's Island (2008), Definitely, Maybe (2008), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Zombieland (2009), Rango (2011), The Call (2013), August: Osage County (2013), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, Ender's Game (2013), and Zombieland: Double Tap (2019). Between 2015 and 2016, she starred on the horror-comedy Scream Queens on Fox, her first regular role in a television series.

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