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Anna Kendrick was born in Portland, Maine
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Kendrick started her career as a child. When she was 12, she played a supporting role in the 1998 Broadway musical High Society.
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Anna Kendrick made her film debut in the musical comedy Camp.
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Kendrick preformed in 2008 for the fantasy romance Twilight.
Anna played Jessica Stanley, the best friend of protagonist Bella Swan -
She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at several awards ceremonies, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and BAFTA Awards.
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In 2012, Kendrick featured opposite Chace Crawford of What to Expect When You're Expecting.
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Based on the non-fiction book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory. Kendrick played the protagonist of the film.
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She also lent her voice to the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman (2012).
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She starred opposite Jeremy Jordan in the musical romance The Last Five Years, an adaptation of the off-Broadway musical of the same name. While the film itself received mixed reviews, Kendrick garnered widespread critical acclaim for her performance.
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In May 2015, she reprised her role of Beca Mitchell in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015). The film, which followed Mitchell in her senior year of college as the co-president of the Barden Bellas, emerged as a major box office blockbuster and surpassed the success of the first film.
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Two years after the events of the second movie, the Bellas have graduated college, but have jobs which they all hate. Desperate to see each other again to sing once more. Emily, now a senior at Barden and leader of the Barden Bellas, has seemingly asked for the Bellas to reunite at an event in New York Aquarium to sing with each other once more.
