Early beginning: Agnes Bruckner
Agnes Bruckner (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress. She began acting on television in the late 1990s and has since appeared in several films, including The Woods, Blue Car, and Murder By Numbers.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.
By the time Agnes Bruckner was barely out of her teens, she was already a savvy Hollywood veteran. This blond-haired California girl got her big start in show business at the age of 11 when she was cast as the wild-child Bridget Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful. “It was a really good experience, and I learned everything I needed to, but it wasn’t my cup of tea,” she says of the popular soap opera. “About a year and a half into it I decided I wanted to leave.”Luckily, she found plenty of other opportunities waiting for her, and Agnes spent the next two years guest-starring on hit shows like Pacific Blue, The Fugitive and Touched by and Angel. After proving herself on the small screen, Agnes made the jump to the silver screen in 2001 with a role in The Glass House, a fast-paced thriller starring Leelee Sobieski.
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Next up was the controversial indie film, Blue Car, in which Agnes plays a troubled young girl who has an illicit affair with her English teacher. The daring role earned Agnes a nomination for best female lead at the Independent Spirit Awards. The attention also gained her a slew of additional roles in such films as Home Room (2002), with Erika Christensen, Murder by Numbers, starring Sandra Bullock, and Rick (2003), a modern-day tragedy starring Bill Pullman.After appearing in five episodes of Kiefer Sutherland’s hit show 24 in 2003, Agnes returned to the big screen with a vengeance and landed major roles in the films Stateside (2004), starring Val Kilmer and Rachael Leigh Cook, Haven (2004), starring Orlando Bloom, and The Woods, a horror flick featuring Rachel Nichols. In 2006, Agnes took on roles in the drama Peaceful Warrior, starring Nick Nolte, and in the thrillers Blood and Chocolate and Killers, with Taryn Manning. “I get a lot of dark scripts now,” she admits. “I don’t wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For someone my age, once you get started doing them, it’s hard to get out.”
Bruckner enjoys hip-hop and R&B as well as The Killers and The Fray. Bruckner has stated that she does not participate in “the Hollywood part of Hollywood” and travels or lives at home with her family during her free time.
