Meredith Salenger
Salenger was born and grew up within Malibu, California. Her passion for acting was performing in front of her loved ones and relatives as young children. She was 8 years old when her mother enrolled her into her first acting class. In the John Huston-directed feature Annie the actress played a tiny role where she was classified as being a "singing and dancing orphan". Salenger is also part of several commercials for television. Salenger's debut starring role came in the Disney movie The Journey of Natty Gann costarring John Cusack and Ray Wise and was the very first US film to be awarded the coveted gold prize from the Moscow Film Festival. In addition, she was awarded "Best actor in drama" at the Youth in Film Awards, in recognition of her role as the fun-loving Natty. In the following four films before she was eighteen years old, including A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon and A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, she quit Hollywood to go to Harvard to continue her education.



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