
Early life

Career
Early work

2006–2007


2008–present


In August 2010, shortly before the release of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, news emerge regarding Winstead's potential upcoming project, a romcom penned by Elan Mastai, The F Word. Casey Affleck is set to star, while Winstead is up for the female lead, testing against Rebecca Hall, Rose Byrne and Deborah Ann Woll.
Filmography
Theatrical films | ||||
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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Checking Out | Lisa Apple | supporting role (limited release) | ||
Sky High | Gwendolyn ‘Gwen’ Grayson | supporting role | ||
The Ring Two | Young Evelyn | minor role (cameo) (second film of the ’’Ring’’ series) | ||
Final Destination 3 | Wednesday ‘Wendy’ Christensen | lead role opposite Ryan Merriman (third film of the ’’Final Destination’’ series) | ||
Bobby | Susan Taylor | supporting role | ||
Black Christmas | Heather Lee-Fitzgerald | supporting role (remake to Black Christmas) | ||
Factory Girl | Ingrid Superstar | minor role (cameo) (limited release) | ||
Live Free or Die Hard | Lucy Gennero-McClane | supporting role (fourth film of the Die Hard series) | ||
Grindhouse: Death Proof | Lee Montgomery | supporting role (counterpart to Planet Terror) | ||
Make It Happen | Lauryn Kirk | lead role opposite Riley Smith | ||
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Ramona Victoria Flowers | lead role opposite Michael Cera (adaptation of graphic novel Scott Pilgrim) | ||
The Thing | Kate Lloyd | lead role opposite Joel Edgerton (in production) (prequel to The Thing) (tentative title) | ||
Films made for TV/video | ||||
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
The Long Road Home | Annie Jacobs | supporting role | ||
Monster Island | Madison | supporting role | ||
Television series | ||||
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
Touched by an Angel | Kristy | episode 3.27: "A Delicate Balance" (minor guest) | ||
Passions | Jessica Bennett | series regular | ||
2001 - '02 | Wolf Lake | Sophia Donner | series regular | |
Tru Calling | Bridget Elkins | episode 1.08: "Closure" (supporting guest) | ||
Other | ||||
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
Showing Up | Herself | documentary |
Cancelled projects
- Winstead had left Passions for a lead-starring role in a Fox show, Father Can't Cope. The show was set to also co-star Scott Bakula, Mary Page Keller and Jake Sandvig (her co-star in Sky High), but the show was scrapped even before production began.
Awards and nominations
Year | Project | Award | Result | Other notes |
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1999 | Passions | Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Daytime TV Series | Nominated | Lost to Brittany Snow (Guiding Light) |
2006 | Bobby | Hollywood Film Festival Award for Best Ensemble Cast Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Won Nominated | Shared with the rest of the ensemble cast of Bobby Lost to the cast in Little Miss Sunshine |
Black Christmas | Scream Awards for 2007 Scream Queen | Nominated | Lost to Kate Beckinsale (Vacancy) |
Personal life
Interviewed in 2006, Winstead said she was in a long-term relationship with Riley Stearns, an aspiring director from Austin, Texas. In 2008, they worked together in Stop/Eject – a short film he was making with Winstead's Final Destination 3 co-star Ryan Merriman, which is as of yet still in post-production. The project was shot on the weekends during the 2008 writers' strike. Winstead elaborates, "The whole short is 25 minutes long. We're currently working on post sound and music and we hope to show it at festivals."On July 22, 2010, Winstead announced her engagement to longtime boyfriend Riley Stearns during an interview with Spin.com. The wedding is to take place in October 2010 in Austin, Texas, where Stearns is from.
Winstead had stated that at one point, Final Destination 3 co-star Amanda Crew "stayed with [her] for a while". She has also called Lacey Chabert her "confidant" and in the same interview, says she is good friends with Death Proof co-stars Rosario Dawson and Sydney Tamiia Poitier. "I'm not a really "cliquish" type of person," she says of herself. "There's usually one person that I gravitate to, who I feel I relate to the most, and kind of stick to throughout the whole thing." While filming Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Winstead made good friends with co-star Anna Kendrick. “The two of us, we were just sitting up there watching the first fight [scene] in the balcony together for a week and a half, and we were always talking about gossip, film news and

Winstead has been quoted saying she is a fan of the movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Sixth Sense and the television shows My So Called Life, Third Rock From the Sun, Just Shoot Me and Will & Grace. She also favors indie rock and alternative music. Her favorite novel is S. E. Hinton's 1967 The Outsiders. Winstead has also voiced her like for the music of Bat for Lashes, French pop songs, Alanis Morissette, mewithoutYou, The Shangri-Las, The Shirelles, Roy Orbison, Madonna, The xx and Ben E. King's Stand By Me.
Singing

In 2009, Winstead and music producer Thai Long Ly worked on a song he wrote, "Warmth of Him". Although first rumored to be a pre-release single, Winstead has since then confirmed that she was just exploring her interest and does not plan on releasing any music albums.
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