Mary Kate Schellhardt
Biography
Mary Kate Schellhardt is an actress who came from an artistic family and trained in Chicago at the Piven Theatre Workshop, learning Viola Spolin techniques in theater games. Casting director Gail Levin discovered her at 13 in a nationwide search, and she won the part of Ellen Grape in the Lasse Hallström film What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), which started her film career. While in her last two years of high school, she acted in The Great Mom Swap (1995), Apollo 13 (1995) and Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995), with filming in Austin and Los Angeles as well as the San Juan Islands, and she also appeared in high school plays. She later attended Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama in Pittsburgh, then after graduating returned to television and film work in Los Angeles.
48years old
Turns 49 on November 1in 365 days
- Born United States
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 2 years1993 to 1995
Every film, newest first
- 1995Apollo 13IMDb rating 7.7
- 1995Free Willy 2: The Adventure HomeIMDb rating 5.1
- 1993What's Eating Gilbert GrapeIMDb rating 7.7
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All films by Ron Howard
Lasse HallströmDirector, 1 film, 1993
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Dwight H. LittleDirector, 1 film, 1995
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