Newt
Sometimes, child stars stay in the spotlight – usually with their drug addictions overshadowing their once great careers. But sometimes they don’t. So where’s Aliens’ Newt now?
It wouldn’t be much of an exaggeration to say my favourite action move of all time is the James Cameron-directed Aliens. I don’t really see this as a movie sequel in a conventional sense. While it retained characters and ideas from the original, the direction that Cameron took this was entirely different from Ridley Scott’s work. Viewed entirely in isolation it’s a wildly unpredictable ride, stunningly designed and brilliantly executed.

Along with Sigourney Weaver, this production also had some stand-out performances by Michael Biehn and Lance Henriksen, but also a young actress called Carrie Henn, as Rebecca ‘Newt’ Jordan. The soft spoken Carrie was obviously meant for a sparkling movie career, so why did we never see her ever again?

Curiously she had no prior acting experience before Aliens, not even a school production performance. The daughter of a US Air Force serviceman, she was at school near Lakenheath when she was unexpectedly cast in the roll of Newt. Interestingly her brother ‘Christopher Henn’ was also cast as Newt’s brother Timmy, but he didn’t appear in the original release. Only in the extended version do we meet Timmy. Like his sister, he’s never appeared in anything else.

Read more: http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/alien/13020/whatever-happened-to-carrie-henn#ixzz4J2QMYnHT

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