Mackenzie Foy is all grown up!
The young actress fans most likely remember as Renesmee Cullen – the vampiric and hyper-aging daughter born to Edward and Bella Cullen in the Twilight movies – is now pushing 15, and she wowed the crowd at Cannes in her Oscar De La Renta gown, Entertainment is reporting .
Mackenzie was just 11 when she was cast in the role that every adolescent girl in Hollywood wanted: Renesmee Cullen in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (and 2 ). Since then, Mackenzie has found steady work , earning raves for her role as Matthew McConaughey’s screen daughter in Interstellar , according to Refinery 29 .
She’s also found voice work, providing the voice of Violet in The Boxcar Children .
The Los Angeles native, who plans to go to film school and become a director some day, also has a busy personal life: when she’s not in front of the camera, Mackenzie – who holds a black belt in Taek Won Do – models and dances.
Mackenzie is in Cannes this week to promote The Little Prince , according to Wet Paint, and stepping out on the red carpet, she showed the paparazzi just how much she’s grown up.
May 22nd, Mackenzie Foy – ‘The Little Prince’ Photocall at the 68th Annual #CannesFilmFestival ; ??????????????????? ? pic.twitter.com/te0VIBIN7Z
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Gorgeous shots of Mackenzie from the premiere are continuing to surface. Go check them all out http://t.co/Zc8nIloCEg pic.twitter.com/4zg4pBqwO0 — Mackenzie Foy Fans (@mffansofficial) May 22, 2015
The Little Prince , scheduled for U.S. release in July, has been one of the most anticipated, and most talked-about, movies of the summer. The animated feature is based on the classic 1943 novella of the same name by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
“The author, an aviator, crashes with his aeroplane in the middle of the Sahara desert. While he is trying to repair his aeroplane, a little boy appears and asks him to draw a sheep. The author learns that The Little Prince comes from asteroid B-612 where he has left behind three volcanoes and a rose.”
Mackenzie provides the voice of The Little Girl (in the English editions, anyway).
Look for Mackenzie Foy to appear in the live-action The Great Wall in November 2016.
[Images courtesy of: Getty Images/ Michael Buckner , Clemens Bilan ]