Agnes Bruckner

**Agnes Bruckner** is an American actress and former model. She began acting in television in the late 1990s and has since appeared in several films, including *The Woods*, *Blue Car*, *Murder by Numbers*, *Blood and Chocolate*, and *The Anna Nicole Story*.

## Early life

Bruckner was born in Hollywood, California, to a Hungarian father and a Russian mother who have since divorced; her paternal grandfather was German. Her parents met in Hungary and immigrated to the U.S. in 1984 through a refugee camp in Italy. She has two sisters and a brother.

Bruckner speaks some Russian and is fluent in Hungarian, having grown up speaking the language. She has been involved in dance, ballet, and tap since the age of five and initially wanted to pursue a career as a dancer. At the age of eight, Bruckner worked as a child model at the suggestion of her mother and also appeared in a beauty pageant. Bruckner grew up in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California, until age five and then lived in Portland, Oregon, until age ten. She returned with her family to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, moving to Burbank, California.

## Career

Bruckner began her career at age 11. She appeared in commercials, in a few television pilots, and on the daytime soap opera *The Bold and the Beautiful* in 1999. At the age of 15, Bruckner got her first lead role in the independent film *Blue Car* (2002), in which she played a high school student involved in an affair with her teacher, played by David Strathairn. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Bruckner "negotiates this difficult script with complete conviction." Bruckner received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Female Lead" for the role.

In the 2000s, other minor roles in television and film followed, including roles in the thrillers *The Glass House* (2001) and the Sandra Bullock-starring *Murder by Numbers* (2002). Bruckner has appeared in episodes of the television series *24* and *Alias*. She starred in the horror films *Venom* (2005) and *The Woods* (2006). Also in 2006, she appeared in the drama *Peaceful Warrior* opposite Scott Mechlowicz and received a ShoWest Female Star of Tomorrow Award and played the lead role in *Dreamland*.

In 2007, Bruckner appeared in the horror/romance film Blood and Chocolate and later Say Hello to *Stan Talmadge* (2008), *Kill Theory* (2008), *Vacancy 2: The First Cut* (2009), and *The Craigslist Killer* (2011).

On October 3, 2012, Bruckner was cast to play Anna Nicole Smith in a Lifetime original movie *The Anna Nicole Story*.

As of April 2019, she is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter.

## Trivia

* Has two sisters and a brother.
	+ She was raised along with three siblings: one brother and two sisters.
* Bruckner's mother is Russian and her father is Hungarian. She speaks both languages fluently. Her paternal grandfather was German. She has three siblings, two sisters and a brother.
* Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son named Sebastian Lopeti Brewer on March 30, 2016. Child's father is her boyfriend, Alefaio Brewer.
* She had dreams of becoming a dancer in either tap or ballet.
* Hungarian was her first language, and she practiced it regularly to maintain her fluency.
* She had a role alongside Sandra Bullock in the film Murder by Numbers.