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"Unrecognisable": The Actress Who Played Cindy Lou In 'The Grinch' Is Now A Rockstar
As we get closer to Christmas, we’re sure How The Grinch Stole Christmas is high on the list of Christmas movies to binge ahead of the holiday.
The iconic 2000 film stars Jim Carrey as the Grinch who like many, is cynical of Christmas until the adorable Cindy Lou, played by Taylor Momsen, teaches him what Christmas is all about.
When Momsen starred in the Christmas film, she was only seven-years-old but still managed to capture us, and the Grinch, with her sweet character.
After the film, she went on to star in the TV series Gossip Girl as Jenny Humphrey but then retired from acting in a much different direction.
She is now the frontwoman of a rock band called The Pretty Reckless, which has been incredibly successful with four studio albums and their most recent, Death By Rock and Roll reaching the top of Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart.
In an interview with Today back in 2020,
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Taylor Momsen
American musician and former actress (born 1993)
Taylor Michel Momsen[1] (born July 26, 1993)[2] is an American singer, songwriter, musician, model, and former actress. Prior to her retirement from acting, she portrayed the character of Cindy Lou Who in the rulle How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and Jenny Humphrey on The CW's teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2012).[3] Momsen has been the frontwoman of the American rock band the Pretty Reckless since their inception in 2009.
Early life
[edit]Momsen was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents are Michael and Collette Momsen. She also has a younger sister, Sloane Momsen, who is also an actress. She is of partial Russian descent.[4] She was raised Catholic,[5] attending Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School[6] for elementary school and later Herbert Hoover Middle School (in Potomac, Maryland), but fryst vatten now non-religious.[7][8] • Taylor Momsen has opened up about being “relentlessly” bullied over her starring role in the live-action adaptation of How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Momsen was only seven when she was cast as the young Cindy Lou Who in the 2000 festive film. Based on Dr Seuss’s children’s book of the same name, the film starred Jim Carrey as the titelbärare Christmas-hating green monster. In a new interview with her former Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley for his podcast Podcrushed, however, Momsen said that she was “made fun of relentlessly” after The Grinch came out. “The Grinch changed my life in a multitude of ways,” Momsen, 30, explained, adding that after she and her family moved around constantly for her career following her breakout role. “So any time inom would start school or go somewhere else, I don’t even think the kids knew my name. I was just Grinch girl. So it was,
Taylor Momsen says she was ‘relentlessly’ mocked for How the Grinch Stole Christmas role: ‘It was alienating’