Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Biography
31-year old actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead Nude Debut (Brief Butt) in Fargo [S3E1]
I think at different phases of your life your opinions on things change dramatically. I mean, I can’t say that 10 years down the road I won’t feel a lot more comfortable with nudity. I mean, I don’t know, but at this point in my life, I feel it would be a little weird for me being a young woman in Hollywood and doing nudity, so I’m going to hold out for now. I think that I’ll stick to it, but I’m not going to make any guarantees or promises.
Date of Birth 28 November 1984, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA
Nicknames MEW
Mary
Height 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the youngest of five children of Betty Lou (Knight) and James Ronald Winstead. She grew up in Salt Lake City and North Carolina many years of her life and actually had an ambition to become a ballerina, for which she attended Joffrey Ballet School in Chicago at the age of 11 and started taking acting lessons too.
Her theatre credits include “The Nutcracker” and the Broadway production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” with Donny Osmond.
Her most notable roles are in movies such as Sky High (2005), Final Destination 3 (2006), The Ring Two (2005) and the horror remake, Black Christmas (2006).
On the small screen, Winstead is probably best known for her role as “Jessica Bennett” in the popular NBC daytime drama Passions (1999), for which she received nominations from the Hollywood Reporters’ Young Star Awards and the Young Artist Awards for her performance on the show. Other television credits include the CBS series Wolf Lake (2001), the MTV original telepic Monster Island (2004) and guest roles in popular shows such as Touched by an Angel (1994), Tru Calling (2003) and Promised Land (1996). She ia a distant cousin of Ava Gardner.