Thora Birch
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Thora Josephine Birch is an American actress. She made her film debut with a starring role in Purple People Eater and won a Young Artist Award for "Best Actress Under Nine Years of Age". Birch rose to
Birch in 2025
Birch appearing as a guest on Tom Green Live! in 2006
Birch (right) with Jane Fonda at the 2015 Hollywood Film Awards
Birch as Jolene on the set of Above Suspicion (2019)
The Chronology of Water
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The Chronology of Water is a 2025 biographical psychological drama film co-produced, written and directed by Kristen Stewart, in her feature film directorial debut, and based on the 2011 memoir of the
Thora Birch
…in Petunia (2012). She returned in 2016 and has since appeared in various independent films, such as The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) and The Chronology of Water (2025). On television, Birch played the title role in Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story—for which she received an Emmy nomination—and the…
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Kim Gordon, Imogen Poots, Kristen Stewart, and Thora Birch before the red carpet in Cannes