On his twelfth birthday, in 1936, Wood been given as a reward his very first film digicam, a Kodak "Cine Special". She manufactured her movie debut in the thriller The Crush (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and obtained further more prominence at the age of sixteen as a teen idol when she appeared in the songs video clip for Aerosmith's "Cryin'".