Personal

Chlumsky graduated from Oak Park River Forest High School. Chlumsky also graduated from the University of Chicago in 2002 and had worked in New York City as a researcher for Zagat, a restaurant review company, for a short while.


In October 2007, Chlumsky announced her engagement to an Army Reservist, with the date of the wedding being in March 2008.


Career

She entered show business at an early age modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie My Girl and the 1994 sequel My Girl 2.

She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, in which they "clown around" on a "haunted" mountain.

Columbia Pictures expressed serious interest in My Girl 3 (also known as Still My Girl) and a script has been in development since 2003, according to Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd revealed in media outlets that Columbia was attempting to sign Anna for the role. The project is still in development stages, with no current updates in four years.

Chlumsky appeared on the March 8, 2007 episode of 30 Rock called "The Fighting Irish." She played Liz Lemler who is the girlfriend of Floyd (Jason Sudeikis) who sent the flowers to Lemler in "Up All Night" that ended up with Liz Lemon. She also appeared as "Mary Calvin" in an episode of NBC drama series Law & Order (Season 17, Episode 12) first airing January 12th 2007.

Chlumsky is in the upcoming Off-Broadway production of Unconditional by Brett C. Leonard at The Public Theater. It is being put up by Philip Seymour Hoffman's theater group, LAByrinth Theater Company. It will go up February 2008.

Selected filmography

My Girl (1991)
My Girl 2 (1994)
Trading Mom (1994)
Golddiggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
Wait (2005)
Blood Car (2007)
30 Rock "The Fighting Irish" (March 8, 2007)