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Article: Evan Rachel Wood: not since 12-year-old Jodie Foster's turn in Taxi Driver has a kid made jaws drop the way Evan Rachel Wood did in last year's Thirteen. But that was just the beginning.(Newcomer On Everyone's Lips)(Brief Article)(Interview)
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- March 1, 2004
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If every young actress is looking for that one white whale of a part to kick-start a credible adult career, then Evan Rachel Wood just might have found hers in last year's girls-gone-wild sensation Thirteen. The wide-eyed beauty electrified moviegoers as a Pollyanna seduced by the wrong crowd, and just like her idol, Jodie Foster, in Taxi Driver (1976), she inspired near-messianic expectations among audiences of great things to come.
Rewind a year, though, and Wood was known mostly--if much at all--as the anguished teen on TV's Once and Again. But what a year it's been. In addition to Thirteen, for which she's earned a boatload of award nominations, she supported ...