a cousin from a less notable branch of an ~old hollywood~ family (a la coppolas or barrymores) who started getting cast in movies as a kid only because of a cute face and availability but turned out, inexplicably, to have some talent. became a well-beloved ingenue of the fanning variety with a sugar sweet public reputation that is absolutely fake as fuck and covers up her vain, occasionally mean, fille-transitioning-to-full-femme fatale inner self. honestly terrible.