那些终成大器的童星

时间:2022-10-01 04:14:08

那些终成大器的童星

提起童星,不知你的脑海中会浮现出谁的面孔?他们如今是否还闪亮在镁光灯下?或许有的也曾才华横溢,却因时运不济而消失在人们的视线中,而有的至今仍闪耀在银幕上,大放异彩。

Kristen Stewart

克里斯汀·斯图尔特

Stewart's first major gig2) was at 12 years old as Jodie Foster's daughter in Panic Room. She also played a small part in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild before she was catapulted into mega-3)stardom with her role as Bella Swan in the 2008 film Twilight. Stewart's father is a TV producer and her mother is a script supervisor, so maybe their Hollywood acumen4) is responsible for her grounded5) attitude; unlike other starlets6) of her age, she's not likely to be seen stumbling out of clubs late at night.

斯图尔特的首个重要角色是12岁时在电影《战栗空间》中所扮演的朱迪·福斯特的女儿一角。在凭借2008年的影片《暮色》中贝拉·斯旺一角一炮走红成为巨星之前,她还曾在肖恩·潘大获好评的电影《荒野生存》中饰演过一个小角色。斯图尔特的父亲是一位电视制片人,母亲则是一名场记,或许正是他们好莱坞式的敏锐培养了她脚踏实地的作风。斯图尔特可不像她这个年龄的其他年轻女星,你不太可能看见她在深夜醉步蹒跚地走出各家夜店。

Michelle Trachtenberg

米歇尔·特拉亨伯格

In 1994, the 8-year-old New Yorker got her first major role as Nona Mecklenburg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Since then, she's been in a number of movies and TV shows, landing her most popular role in 2000 as Dawn Summers on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her off-screen accomplishments include being bilingual (in Russian and English) and an active spokeswoman for Recording Artists, Athletes and Actors Against Drunk Driving (RADD) and Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE). She even helped President Clinton launch the Coalition7) for a Drug Free America campaign.

1994年,这位时年八岁的纽约女孩获得了她的首个重要角色,在电影《皮特和皮特历险记》中饰演诺娜·梅克伦伯格。此后,她参演了多部电影和电视剧,并于2000年赢得了电视剧《吸血鬼猎人巴菲》中唐·萨默斯一角,这也是她最受欢迎的一个角色。银幕下的她不仅精通两种语言(俄语和英语),而且还是“文体明星抵制醉驾”(RADD)和“抵制药物滥用教育”(DARE)组织的代言人。她甚至还曾帮助克林顿总统发起了“美国无联盟”运动。

Anna Paquin

安娜·帕奎因

In 1993, at the age of 11, Paquin became the second youngest person in history to score an Academy Award for her role in The Piano. As a teenager, she made small contributions to a string of popular movies, including Almost Famous and X-Men. And in 2007 the 27-year-old Canadian was on the hit HBO8) series True Blood. Although Paquin attended Columbia University for two years, she left to continue her acting career.

1993年,时年11岁的帕奎因凭借其在电影《钢琴课》中的角色斩获奥斯卡金像奖,成为该奖历史上第二年轻的获奖者。十几岁时,她在《几近成名》和《X战警》等一系列火爆大片中出演过一些小角色。2007年,这位27岁的加拿大女演员出演了HBO电视台的热门电视剧《真爱如血》。帕奎因曾在哥伦比亚大学上了两年学,但又放弃了学业,继续自己的演艺事业。

Natalie Portman

娜塔莉·波特曼

In the mid-1990s, when Portman was in her early teens, she appeared in two movies that jump-started9) her career: Léon (The Professional) and Heat. In adulthood, she was cast in Star Wars, acted in the indie10) favorites Garden State and Closer, and later starred in Brothers. But her more impressive achievements are of the academic variety. Fluent in Hebrew, Portman also speaks some French and Japanese. Of her decision to go to Harvard, from which she graduated in 2003, she has said, "I don't care if college ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star."

20世纪90年代中期,年仅十三四岁的波特曼出演了《杀手莱昂》(又名《这个杀手不太冷》)和《盗火线》,这两部电影让她的演艺事业有了一个良好的开端。成年后,她出演了《星球大战》和颇受欢迎的独立影片《情归新泽西》及《偷心》,随后还担任了影片《兄弟》的女主角。不过,她更令人印象深刻的成就是在学业方面。波特曼精通希伯来语,她的法语和日语也有一定的造诣。波特曼2003年从哈佛大学毕业,关于去上哈佛大学这一决定,她曾表示:“我不在乎上大学是否会断送我的演艺生涯,比起做电影明星,我更希望自己拥有聪明的头脑。”

Elijah Wood

伊莱贾·伍德

Wood became a critically acclaimed actor by age 13 for his leading roles in the early 1990s flicks11) Paradise, Forever Young and Radio Flyer, but his biggest role to date has been Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings films. What makes Wood such a success story is his humility. He keeps his love life very low-profile12), and when not acting he stays busy with his own record label13), Simian Records.

凭借20世纪90年代初主演的《天堂》《天荒情未了》《海阔天空》等一系列影片,伍德在13岁时已经成为一名广受好评的演员。不过,他迄今为止最为成功的角色还要数《魔戒》系列影片中的弗罗多·巴金斯。伍德的成功要归功于他的谦逊。他在自己的感情生活上十分低调,不拍戏的时候就忙于打理自己的唱片公司——人猿唱片。

1. beat the odds: 获得出乎意料的成功

2. gig [ɡ?ɡ] n. 工作;职业

3. mega- [?meɡ?] comb. form 表示“巨大的”

4. acumen [??kj?m?n] n. 敏锐;聪明

5. grounded [?ɡra?nd?d] adj. 脚踏实地的

6. starlet [?stɑ?l?t] n. 小女明星

7. coalition [?k????l??n] n. 结合体;同盟

8. HBO: 即Home Box Office,美国有线电视网,是美国最大的电影电视频道,1972年成立,1980年开始制作自己的节目,先后推出了《欲望都市》(Sex and the City)、《兄弟连》(Band of Brothers)等电视作品。

9. jump-start [?d??mpstɑ?t] vt. (成功地)开始

10. indie [??ndi] adj. 独立的

11. flick [fl?k] n. 电影,影片

12. low-profile [?l???pr??fa?l] adj. 低调的

13. record label: 唱片公司

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