Mae Whitman
In 1996, Mae Whitman appeared in two films — One Fine Day and Independence Day — marking an early entry into professional screen work.
Born on June 9, 1988, in Los Angeles, Whitman is a citizen of the United States and was educated at Ribet Academy. Her film appearances in 1996 were followed by a role in the 1998 film Hope Floats, extending her work in cinema through the late 1990s. Over the course of her career, she has worked in film, television, and voice acting, operating across multiple areas of screen and vocal performance.
Her film work continued into the following decade, with a role in the 2012 film The Perks of Being a Wallflower representing one of her later documented film appearances. In addition to acting, Whitman has also worked as a singer, adding a further dimension to her professional activity. Her career across these formats reflects consistent engagement with film, television, and voice work.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, released in 2012, is among the more recent film credits in Whitman's career, placing her work across a span that begins with her 1996 film appearances. From those first documented roles through to the early 2010s, Whitman has maintained a presence in film and television acting as well as voice performance, with her 2012 film credit serving as a concrete marker of her continued activity in cinema.
Quotes by Mae Whitman
I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
I don’t have one role that I’m particularly fond of doing, and I don’t really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it’s a role I connect with, I’ll go for it, no matter what’s involved.
I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like ‘Pete and Pete,’ ‘Hey, Dude,’ ‘Salute Your Shorts’ – that’s what I grew up with.
Being on a movie set when you have a great strong people there supporting you can be very nurturing. You get to explore these creative parts of yourself as a child that most people don’t explore until they’re in college.
There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th. There are so many things that just make you realize that you’re not going to live forever and that you have to enjoy every day.
I don’t really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I’ve been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.
You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, ‘Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don’t want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?’
It’s funny, because I don’t have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can’t do anything else.