On his 12th birthday, in 1936, Wood gained as a gift his to start with film digicam, a Kodak "Cine Special". She made her movie debut in the thriller The Crush (1993), earning the 1994 MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance, and acquired further more prominence at the age of 16 as a teen idol when she appeared in the tunes video for Aerosmith's "Cryin'".