Who is arielle kebbel and what is she known for?”
There are myriad routes that budding actresses take to Hollywood. For Arielle Kebbel, it was mostly Interstate 10 west from Winter Park, Florida, all the way across the southern states to Los Angeles, where an audition for the tween show Gilmore Girls awaited her. “Morn and I drove it in two days,” says the 21-year-old Kebbel. “A week later I got a callback, and I was on the show for two and a half years after that.” After small turns in Soul Plane [2004] and The Kid and I, Kebbel takes on her first big-screen starring role in this month’s Aquamarine. “It’s lit erally The Little Mermaid meets a teenage version of Splash,” says Kebbel, who was first runner-up in the 2002 Miss Teen Florida competition. (“Every traumatic story you hear is absolutely true–girls will try to put broken glass in your foundation,” she says.) In Aquamarine she plays Cecilia, the town darling until the film’s titular mermaid comes ashore to try to find love and steals Cecilia’s mantle. “The best kind of villain
