Here’s a name you should remember for 2008, and even if you don’t, you’re bound to hear it again. She’s Elissa Sursara, a 19-year-old Brazilian-Australian actress leaving Tinseltown terrors Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan well out of work. While there’s no sex tape (that we know about) or DUI, no forgetting her underwear in public or making racial slurs, there is a little tabloid attention, a pesky boyfriend rumor and a red hot film career to boast this girls name.

According to Actress Archives, the new Los Angeles resident Sursara, ready to appear in a 2008 film alongside Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep entitled Sex Is Bad, Ok? and in negotiations to play the female lead in a 2009 film inspired by the classic ‘Lolita’, had created US hype well before booking her first film gig. Appearing on and off television, in music videos and commercials, the starlet chose to forgo a leading part to study for her final high school exams, claims she is would rather hang out at home with her Samoyed puppy and some friends than go clubbing and was even accepted to YALE University as an international student. The young star, who denies rumors she is, or has ever dated Miami Ink’s Ami James, despite reports they were photographed kissing (no photos emerged however) hails from Sydney, Australia’s Avalon Beaches and was the first of her Brazilian family to be born outside their native Ipanema, Brazil and has enough pending film credits to last her the next 3 years in Hollywood!

Elissa Sursara, write that down.

Sources:
Roberts and Streep to work with newcomer Sursara [Actress Archives]
Sex Is Bad, Ok? [Wikipedia]
Elissa Sursara at [Perfect People]