WHITE HOUSE DOWN Child Star on Staying Grounded
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- Category: Interviews
- Published: Wednesday, 26 June 2013 22:36
- Written by Lupe Haas
Joey King has spent half her lifetime working as an actress. Since 2006, she has appeared on television and transitioned into movie in 2007. She can currently be seen in the action-thriller White House Down playing Channing Tatum’s daughter and she provides the voice of China Girl in Sam Raimi’s OZ: The Great and Powerful, now available for digital, Blu-ray and DVD.
In our sit down with the young actress, she showed us her zip line scars. Besides her adventures at the movies and playtime, she says her family keeps her grounded by giving her responsibilities such as having to clean her pet pigs pen and the laundry.
“I have a lot of responsibilities like any other kid, too,” she proclaims. “I’m just like everybody else. I love my family and they keep me so grounded. But doing this [acting] is what I really love.
Besides White House Down, King appears in The Conjuring opening July 19.
More about Joey King:
At the young age of 12, JOEY KING (Wheelchair Girl, China Girl) has already logged two dozen professional roles on both the big screen and television, most notably her starring performance of Ramona in the 2010 hit feature “Ramona and Beezus” opposite Selena Gomez. For her work in the motion picture adaptation of author Beverly Cleary’s popular series, Joey won the 2010 Young Artist Award as Best Performance in a Feature Film—Leading Young Actress Ten and Under. Joey also appeared in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Conjuring” and “White House Down.”
On television, Joey earned two Young Artist Award nominations for her guest roles on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and her supporting performance in the series “Anatomy of Hope.” She has guest-starred on numerous comedies and episodics including “Entourage,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “Medium,” “New Girl,” “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” and “Avenging Angel.”
Joey has maintained a busy presence on the motion picture screen over the past four years, with key roles in such feature films as “Reign Over Me” with Adam Sandler, “Quarantine,” “Battle Los Angeles” and the romantic comedy “Crazy, Stupid, Love” opposite Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling. She also voiced the characters of the yellow fur ball Katie in the animated feature “Horton Hears A Who!” with Jim Carrey, and Beaver Girl in “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” for which she received her third Young Artist Award nomination, this time for Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role–Young Actor/Actress.