Her family moved to France when she was 6, and settled in a town in the Alps.
Her mother had her and her two sisters audition for roles in a regional-theater production of The Sound of Music in order to keep busy, and they were chosen to play the Von Trapp daughters.
As a teen, she and her siblings helped their mother develop a game similar to Go Fish, but with cards that depicted works by Renaissance artists.
Her family were extras in the 2004 thriller Dinocroc.
Credits her friendship with Octavia Spencer for helping her land a role in the hit 2012 film The Help.
She and other cast members of The Help studied the PBS civil-rights series Eyes on the Prize and the documentary Yes Ma'am to prepare for their roles as black maids and white employers.
Ahna O'Reilly
September 21, 1984 (age 41)
Palo Alto, California, USA
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Her family moved to France when she was 6, and settled in a town in the Alps.
Her mother had her and her two sisters audition for roles in a regional-theater production of The Sound of Music in order to keep busy, and they were chosen to play the Von Trapp daughters.
As a teen, she and her siblings helped their mother develop a game similar to Go Fish, but with cards that depicted works by Renaissance artists.
Her family were extras in the 2004 thriller Dinocroc.
Credits her friendship with Octavia Spencer for helping her land a role in the hit 2012 film The Help.
She and other cast members of The Help studied the PBS civil-rights series Eyes on the Prize and the documentary Yes Ma'am to prepare for their roles as black maids and white employers.