Imagine growing up in Portland, Maine. It’s pretty easy for a lot of us. But then imagine walking down Exchange Street in the Old Port for some shopping and seeing your face up on movie posters as the feature actress in Stealing Beauty, the award-winning Bernardo Bertolucci film where you play opposite Jeremy Irons; Heavy, James Mangold’s masterpiece of low-tide dolor that is delighting the critics with its ambition, understatement, and charm; and That Thing You Do, the sensational big-box funfest where you’ve stolen the show as the lead female performer in a movie written by and starring Tom Hanks.

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