KELLI GARNER

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AGE AND OCCUPATION: 20, actor. PROVENANCE: Bakersfield, California. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? Garner may be the only actress to owe her career to excellent limbo skills. "I got discovered [by a manager] at a friend's Bar Mitzvah. I did the limbo, and I guess no other girls were dancing." FLYING HIGH: On her role opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Scorsese's The Aviator: "I play a woman named Faith Domergue. She was an actress. I play her at 14 or 15, and she was Howard Hughes's fiancee." TEENAGE WASTELAND: Garner's first high-profile role was in Larry Clark's Bully, and she'll be coming soon to a theater near you in Thumbsucker and Man of the House, with Tommy Lee Jones. THE WAITING GAME: What happens when you land a role in a Scorsese movie: "I cried and screamed with my family. Marty told me that I'd booked it the second I walked out the door [after the audition], and I spent a month afterward freaking out— and I had it when I walked out the door!"

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