Annalise Basso is an American film and television actress and model. She is the youngest child of Marcie Basso and has an older brother and sister named Gabriel and Alexandria. Most of her initial roles have been on television commercials or small one time roles on different shows. Her first role that caught the attention of people was her role as Eden Hamby on True Blood. In 2009, she played a main role in the TV movie Love Takes Wing from the Love Comes Softly series. When she was 10, she took part in the Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? where she played one of the students. Basso's first lead role in a feature film is in D.J. Caruso's Standing Up, a coming of age flick based on a book by Brock Cole called The Goats, which debuted at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
In Inkheart, the twelve-year-old, Meggie, discovers that her father Mo, a professional bookbinder, has the unusual ability to transfer characters from books into the real world when he reads aloud—they call those with this ability "Silvertongue".
