Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. She had early roles in the sitcom Day by Day and the film Purple People Eater (1988), for which she won a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress Under Nine Years of Age. She also appeared in All I Want for Christmas (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Monkey Trouble (1994), Now and Then (1995), and Alaska (1996).
Her breakthrough role came in 1999 with the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty. She later starred in Ghost World (2001), receiving a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Birch appeared in independent films such as Dark Corners (2006), Train (2008), and Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009). After a break from acting, she returned to play software engineer Morgan in Carlton Cuse's 2016 television series Colony.
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