Her American acting career began on December 3, 1980, when Anna Maria Chlumsky was born. She got her start in the industry when she was a little girl, and her breakout role was as Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 and 1992 films My Girl and My Girl 2. She took a break from 1999 to 2005 after her early roles to go to college.
Anna Chlumsky Net Worth
Anna Chlumsky is a $5 million-wealthy American actress. In the coming-of-age picture “My Girl,” released in 1991, Anna Chlumsky made her acting debut in a prominent role while still a youngster. She went on to star in a string of indie features, such as “Blood Car,” “In the Loop,” and “The End of the Tour.”
Between 2012 and 2019, Chlumsky received six Emmy Award nominations for her portrayal of Amy Brookheimer on the HBO comedy series “Veep.” This was her most successful period.
Anna Chlumsky Early Life
Chicago, Illinois is the birthplace of Anna Chlumsky, whose parents are Frank Jr., a saxophonist and chef, and Nancy, an actress, singer, and ex-flight attendant. Her family was Catholic, and she has Croatian and Czech roots.
Anna Chlumsky Film Career as Child Actress
Chlumsky launched her acting career with a small role in John Hughes’ 1989 comedy “Uncle Buck.” She had previously modeled alongside her mother for an advertising campaign. A main role in the coming-of-age drama “My Girl,” in which she portrayed Vada Sultenfuss, a young girl residing in 1970s Madison, Pennsylvania, two years later, was her big break.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, and Macaulay Culkin, who was also a young actress, were all part of the cast. While Culkin was absent from the 1994 sequel “My Girl 2,” Chlumsky was back for a second time, this time alongside Austin O’Brien. She co-starred with Sissy Spacek in Nancy Brelis’s “Trading Mom,” a fantasy comedy film, that same year.
The only other film Chlumsky had a role in during the ’90s was the adventure flick “Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain,” which co-featured Christina Ricci and starred Chlumsky as two Northwest adolescents on the hunt for a gold hoard.
Anna Chlumsky Acting Hiatus
At the tail end of the ’90s, Chlumsky decided to take a break from acting to focus on her college studies. She attended the University of Chicago and earned a BA in international studies in 2002.
Chlumsky subsequently served as a fact-checker for the Zagat Survey before taking a position as an editorial assistant for a science-fiction imprint at HarperCollins. But since she was unhappy in her new role, she decided to return to acting and enrolled in Manhattan’s Atlantic Acting School.
Anna Chlumsky Further Film Career
When Chlumsky came back to acting in 2007, she was cast in the indie black comedy “Blood Car.” After that, she appeared in “Eavesdrop.” In 2009, Chlumsky had a breakout role as Liza Weld, a State Department assistant, in “In the Loop,” a political comedy by Armando Iannucci. The show was a spinoff of Iannucci’s BBC series “The Thick of It.”
She had a leading role in that year’s romantic comedy “The Good Guy,” which also featured Scott Porter, Bryan Greenberg, and Alexis Bledel. Two comedies that Chlumsky was in during the early 2010s were “The Pill” and “Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship.”
Two dramas starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel, “The End of the Tour,” and “Hala,” about a Muslim girl from Pakistan who must balance her family’s expectations with her own desires, were released later in the decade in which she appeared.
Anna Chlumsky Television Career
In 1997’s “A Child’s Wish,” Chlumsky made her television debut as a cancer-stricken adolescent. The following year, she had guest appearances on “Cupid” and “Early Edition.” After stepping away from acting for a while, Chlumsky resurfaced in the late 2000s with guest spots on “30 Rock” and “Law & Order.”
Aside from her appearances in the 2009 TV movies “12 Men of Christmas” and “House Rules,” she was also a recurrent character on the ABC series “Cupid,” which was rebooted from its 1998 original. The show didn’t last long. “White Collar,” “Lights Out,” and “Covert Affairs” were among Chlumsky’s future appearances.
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