Taylor Momsen
Taylor Momsen was born in St.Louis on July 26 1993, she began her career at the age of
three, appearing in a "shake N' Bake" commercial.
Her first roles were a guest starring spot on Early Edition, and a role in the feature
film Prophet's Game with Dennis Hopper.
Her big break came with the Jim Carey's vehicle How the Grinch Stole Christmas where
she played Cindy Lou Who.
Before she auditioned for The Grinch, she had never read the book or seen the cartoon.
The year 2002 was a busy one for Taylor as she appeared in 3 feature films including
the Spy Kids sequel Island of Lost Dreams, We Were Soldiers and the movie version of
the kids fairy tale Hansel & Gretel.
Taylor played the role of "Hopper Watson" in the pilot for the proposed series for
2006 titled Misconceptions, which seems to have not made the grade.
She is also in the cast for the series Gossip Girl playing 'Jenny Humphrey'.
Taylor played 'Samantha Wallace'in the feature film Saving Shiloh and in
Spy School (2008) played "Madison", she also played "Molly" in Underdog and "Jennifer"
in Paranoid park(2007).
Besides her acting Taylor is also quite the rocker who started touring with The
Pretty Reckless when she appeared on Van's Warp Tour summer of 2010. Taylor is
the lead singer and she writes all of her own lyrics. She has toured all over the
UK, topping rock charts right away! Then touring US cities in 2011.
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