Mary Elizabeth Winstead is back on the big screen this week with her new movie The Thing, a prequel to the John Carpenter movie of the same name.
The actress kicked off her career in 1997 and has moved between TV and movies as well as juggling a series of genres.
A young Winstead kicked of her career in the theatre before making the transition into TV with shows such as Touched Like An Angel and Promised Land.
But it was to be Passions and the role of Jessica Bennett that was to be her first major recurring role as she stayed with the show through to 2000.
However it wasn't until 2005 and the movie Sky High when her career really started to go places.
Sky High was met well when it was released and this propelled her into movies.
She took on the role of Wendy Christensen in Final Destination 3 back in 2006, a movie that went on to enjoy box office success.
She followed this up with Bobby, as part of an all star ensemble cast, Black Christmas and Death Proof.
But it was 2007 when she got her shot at a big budget blockbuster as she was cast as Lucy Gennaro in Die Hard 4.0 with Bruce Willis. Buy Die Hard 4 On DVD Now
The movie was directed by Len Wiseman and was the first Die Hard movie since Die Hard: With A Vengeance in 1995.
Winstead & Willis were a warring father and daughter in the action packed movie - which was a big box office hit
She followed that up with dance movie Make It Happen a year later before returning to the big screen twelve months ago in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
The Thing sees her team up with filmmaker Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. as well as actors Joel Edgerton and Ulrich Thomsen.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Winstead) has travelled to the desolate region for the expedition of her lifetime.
Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago.
But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter (Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time.
And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
And we are going to be seeing plenty of the actress over the next twelve months or so as she has a whole host of projects in the pipeline.
She has already completed work on Smashed and A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III but it's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter that is perhaps the most exciting film on the horizon.
The movie is directed by Wanted filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov and is based on the Seth Grahame-Smith novel - he has also penned the screenplay.
Winstead is joined by Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Benjamin Walker and Anthony Mackie on the cast list in what promises to be an action packed ride.
The Thing is released 2nd December
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