Summer Bishil Bio

 Summer Bishil was a Pasadena, California native. At the age of three, she left California and older, her family and her moved to the United States. Summer attended American as well as British schools as her family was in Europe. Her return to Pasadena, California just before her 14th birthday. Summer was just five years old when she fell in love with acting. She enrolled in her first acting class. Nine months later she got an agent and manager, and then began her career full time. She is enrolled in college in her own time, and is working to earn her degree. She was among the stars of the future featured in VanityFair's August 2008 cover issue, "Hollywood’s New Wave: Hollywood's Hottest Kids in Hollywood". Bishil started her acting lessons at age 14. In just one year, she had been hired by an agent and a manager. Bishil began her career in the Nickelodeon TV show Just for Kicks. After that she was signed an agreement with a management and an agency. Her first big break was in the film of Alan Ball, Towelhead. It is an adaptation of the book of the same name. Dana Stevens, a Slate critic, said that "Her performance in a film that for all its good intentions feels thoroughly phony slightly embarrassing, like an extended PSA about inappropriate touching is the truthful thing." Bob Strauss, a Los Angeles journalist at the newspaper, declared that Bishil "...is one of the best natural actors of recent times. Gary Goldstein, in a September 12, Los Angeles Times, review of Towelhead stated that Summer Bishil ("...newcomer) gives an impressive and quietly impressive performance as Jasira. In 2009, she directed Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over movie starring Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, and Ashley Judd. Jay Reiner, Associated Press, appreciated her portrayal. She was selected to play Azula in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2010 film The Last Airbender. This was to be the primary focus of the planned, but never made sequel.