Although her role was very small in the movie, she did a great job of portraying it and so she caught the attention of many movie directors in the process. Her next movie was The Grudge 2 for which she played a role of a college cheerleader. This movie did very good at the box office and was a financial hit although it didn't get good reviews from the critics. She continued to do small roles in between and got experience on the way.

Her next movie with the famous movie star Sia LaBeof was called Disturbia. It was a horror movie with a good budget. She played the onscreen girlfriend of Shia and was very admired for her acting skills. This movie got many good reviews and the movie was a financial hit as well. In 2008 she did another horror movie called Asylum. This movie did not do good business and failed to impress the viewers as she did in her previous movies. In 2009 for the first time, she appeared in a comedy movie called Fired Up. This movie wasn't released in movie theaters and was released just on the DVD. It didn't do well and the reviews were mixed.

She also appeared in the movie Hachi with Richard Gere. This movie was a financial success and was also rated highly by the critics. She played the onscreen daughter of Richard Gere and although her role was not that big, she managed to do justice to the role and was admired by the movie goers as well as the critics for doing a great job on screen.

The next year she did another movie called Locked In. This movie was a horror movie but didn't do too well. A year later she co-produced Waking Madison again a horror movie in which she starred. This movie did good business and was called a financial hit. She even appeared in a music video for David Cook. Later she got a role in the NBC TV series The Event for a girl that gets kidnapped.

She began dating Chad Michael Murray who was her co-star at the time. Almost 5 months later they married. She later mothered a son with her husband on 31st may 2015. She is living a happy life with her husband and her child with no signs of any troubled relationship. She is also focussing on her acting career and appears from time to time on magazine covers as well. Her biography can be read on Wikipedia and her net worth is around $2 million.