Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born on 28th November 1984 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She grew up in Salt Lake City and North Carolina many years of her life and actually had an ambition to become a ballerina, for which she attended Geoffrey Ballet School in NYC at the age of 11 and started taking acting lessons too. Her most notable roles are in movies such as Sky High, Final Destination 3, The Ring Two and she has landed a role in horror remake 'Black Christmas', which is scheduled for a 2006 release.A distant cousin of Ava Gardner.