Hallie Kate Eisenberg

02 Aug, 1992 | East Brunswick, New Jersey

Actress

Biography

Hallie Kate Eisenberg is an American actress. Eisenberg was born in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, to Barry and Amy Eisenberg. She has an older sister Kerri and an older brother Jesse, who is also an actor. She went to Robert Frost Elementary School and went through Hammarskjold (Middle School), Churchill (Junior High) and East Brunswick High School. Eisenberg is also a juggler; she has attended the NYC juggling festival in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Eisenberg first became famous in the late 1990s and early 2000s for her role in a series of Pepsi commercials. The students of her elementary school knew her as "the Pepsi Girl". She made her film debut in the 1998 children's film Paulie, playing the young owner of the title parrot. After appearing in a few made-for-television films, she had supporting parts in 1999's The Insider and Bicentennial Man. In 2000, Eisenberg co-starred with Minnie Driver in the feature film Beautiful, which received generally negative reviews. She also starred as Helen Keller in a television remake of The Miracle Worker. She also played opposite Jeff Daniels and Patricia Heaton in 2004's television remake of the The Goodbye Girl. In 2006, Eisenberg appeared in How to Eat Fried Worms, the New Line Cinema adaptation of Thomas Rockwell's book of the same name. In 2007, she starred in the independent feature film "P.J." (http://www.pjthemovie.com - co-starring with John Heard, Vincent Pastore and Robert Picardo).