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Anna Kendrick was born on August 9, 1985, in Portland, Maine, and by the time most kids were just starting school, she was already chasing Broadway dreams. At only 12, she earned a Tony Award nomination for High Society (1998), making her one of the youngest performers in history to receive such recognition. Yet, behind the glamour, her journey was anything but easy. Growing up in a small town, she and her family would take long, exhausting bus rides to New York for auditions—sometimes returning