Age: 15
Gig: Actress
For someone who doesn't even have a driver's license yet, Helen Hunt look-alike Leelee Sobieski sure gets around. First, she romanced Elijah Wood in the summer blockbuster Deep Impact. It was a role Leelee admits she really threw herself into.

"During filming I had a little crush on him, but nothing happened. He's so nice and so smart, but he's very protected.

Next stop Paris, where Leelee practiced her French for this fall's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries as (who else?) the soldier's daughter. Her biggest break yet, however was being cast by the ultra-eccentric director Stanley Kubrick in the Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman flick Eyes Wide Shut. A movie that's so hush-hush, the actors have been sworn to secrecy.

"I had to sign a contract stating I wouldn't say anything at all," explains Leelee, who was discovered in her school cafeteria.

Just how top secret was the shoot? Leelee never even got to read the entire script. Her scenes where given to her bit by bit as they were shot.

"It was very real because I never knew what was going to happen next," Leelee says.

What will happen next? She stars opposite Drew Barrymore in the upcoming flick, Never Been Kissed, about an undercover reporter posing as a high schooler. With her star rising fast - not to mention her height (just while shooting Deep Impact, she grew 2 whole inches) - this L.A. gal is destined to become one of the brightest newcomers to hit the screen this year.