Thora Birch came to attention as a child in family comedies before becoming one of the most interesting teenage faces of American independent cinema. Her role as Jane Burnham in Sam Mendes's 'American Beauty' placed her at the center of one of the most awarded films of the late nineties. Shortly afterward she cemented her prestige with 'Ghost World', where she played a sarcastic, disenchanted teenager with memorable naturalness. Born in Los Angeles in 1982, she brought to those characters a blend of intelligence, ironic distance and vulnerability very much her own. Read more