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Adult Mitzi Trumbo?


Who played her?

Neither credited nor listed as uncredited.
Looks somewhat familiar to me ...

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Anyone?
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I made some screencaps to avoid further unnecessary confusion 

Trumbo-2015_Adult-Mitzi
http://imgur.com/DOMl7FX

Trumbo-2015_Adult-Mitzi_Family
http://imgur.com/fGgyXxT

HTH!

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How weird they don't credit the actress.

I read Steve Martin's book, "Born Standing Up" and if memory serves, he dated Mitzi Trumbo in his young days. He didn't really know who her dad was at that time, but went to their house for dinner and says it was the first time he was ever around adults who used profanity in front of "youngsters". That was such a great book.

I haven't seen the "Trumbo" yet but really want to.

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They didn't credit her, because she didn't have text.
I think it's a bit overrated, but worth a look for sure.

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Thanks - I'll put it on my Amazon wishlist before I forget.

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If you mean the 1970 scene near the end where Trumbo addressed a group and his wife, son, and daughter are in the audience, his daughter is played by Elle Fanning, who also played his daughter as a teenager. She was a teenager during filming but for that last scene they dressed her and made her up to look 30-ish. They must have done a great job if so many don't realize that!

Marion

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I think you refer nikola (niki) trumbo. OP asked for her little sister mitzi trumbo.

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Exactly, thanks for pointing that out vicariously.

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I've seen almost any movie Elle Fanning ever appeared in, would never not recognize her ;) See reply of yangz.

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However, thanks for clarifying the following: "If you mean the 1970 scene near the end where Trumbo addressed a group and his wife, son, and daughter are in the audience, ..."

You were right there, except for "daughters", not "daughter". That's the point. As said in the original post, I'm looking for the uncredited one. She looks familiar to me, so I'm wondering why no one submitted an uncredited entry so far.

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Uh I just posted an answer to a similar question here: www.imdb.com/title/tt3203606/board/nest/254153267

...So if I'm not wrong I reckon it's Becca Nicole Preston who's credited as playing Mitzi Trumbo (age 9-12) 

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Becca Nicole Preston was about 11 when filming Trumbo.

Here's a picture from another set, same time period:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3878143744/nm6734378
And here's another one from the set of Trumbo itself:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm534766336/nm6734378

Also, as you said yourself: "... Mitzi Trumbo (age 9-12)"

Now how does that comply with the subject "Adult Mitzi Trumbo" 

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Ah ok...uh...I seriously thought it was the same actress (i.e. Becca Nicole Preston) playing adult Mitzi Trumbo too and that they simply added make up, etc. to create the impression she was older. But, then looking at adult Chris Trumbo I noted he was played by a different actor (John Mark Skinner) than the one that played him at age 13-17 (Mattie Liptak). So it's more than likely that I'm wrong and she was played by a different, adult actress It's a pity that they didn't credit her since they did the actor playing Chris (age 29) so why not Mitzi (age 24) especially since he gets no more screen time than she does

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> It's a pity that they didn't credit her since they did the actor
> playing Chris (age 29) so why not Mitzi (age 24) especially
> since he gets no more screen time than she does

It's a good few months now since I watched the picture and I don't remember ... does the actor playing Chris (29) say anything? The amount of screen time doesn't really matter: if they have no lines -- as with 'adult Mitzi' -- they are not credited.

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Um...no I don't believe so. The camera simply pans to his family a few times and we see his wife and adult children seated watching Trumbo give his thank you speech. But, none of his family have a speaking part in that last scene.

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Hi Henry,

that's why I noted "Neither credited nor listed as uncredited" in the OP.

It's a shame that John Mark Skinner as Adult Chris Trumboreceived a credit, but Adult Mitzi Trumbo did not ... given that neither of them had text (as clarified earlier by myself a few posts above). How sexist is that? 

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I seriously thought it was the same actress (i.e. Becca Nicole Preston) playing adult Mitzi Trumbo too and that they simply added make up, etc. to create the impression she was older.

I've now linked some screencaps under my original post to ease identification. As you can tell just by looking at them, there's no way this could be an 11-year-old Becca Nicole Preston even with the best makeup Hollywood could ever provide ... it's rather some CGI from the future that would be required to achieve that adult look  

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Well done! Thanks for that! I hope someone "out there" will be able to answer this for us sooner, rather than later...

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