Dated Jake Hoffmann (the son of Dustin Hoffman).

Won an MTV Award in 1995 for Breakthrough Performance.

Her favorite movie is Schindler's List (1993).

Beat out Christina Ricci for roles in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Little Women (1994)

Attended the Anne Rice's Memnoch Ball in New Orleans in 1995.

Appears in the Savage Gardens video "I Knew I Loved You".

One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of 1995

Parents are separated. She lives with her mother Inez, and brother Christian in Southern California.

She is working on her own production company with her mother called "Wooden Spoon Productions". The name symbolizes women and creativity, and was inspired by her grandmother.

Graduated from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in Los Angeles, in May/June 2000

(August 2000-March 2001) Dated actor Ben Foster.

Loves to clean

Turned down the role of Angela in American Beauty (1999).

Went to the Ranney School in Tinton Falls, NJ up until the sixth grade, when she left to pursue her career in California.

Made her singing debut performing the song "Dream Of Me" from Get Over It (2001).

Nabbed the lead role of Peter Parker's girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man (2002) after Kate Hudson and Alicia Witt turned it down.