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- Birth nameJacqueline Willa Darrow
- Tiger was born in Dallas, Texas and moved to Austin, Texas with her parents when she was 2 years old. She is surrounded by a family of artists (actors, musicians, writers, designers, craftsmen) and began playing violin when she was 18 months old after watching her older sister, Kitty Stuart (then 5 years old), play violin. At age 4 Tiger began taking Irish Step Dancing, and within a year she was competing against other dancers. Competition and classes occupied much of her free time, and she stopped taking violin lessons in order to focus on her dancing. She quickly became an award-winning dancer, placing first in a number of competitions. When she was 4 or 5 she also began to accompany her mother, Peyton Hayslip, to the theater where her mother was performing in various plays. She learned to make a "cave" under the make-up table and spent hours drawing cartoons and absorbing the life of the theater. When she was 6 she earned her first voice-over gig as the voice of Daphne in Blithe Spirit.... not long after that she was cast in a State Theater Company main stage production of The Tempest as Ariel. Gradually, acting began to take more of her time than dancing, and at the age of 7 realized she'd really rather act than dance. At 8 she was cast as a lead in the indie feature film Yorick (2002) (directed by Johnny Stranger) as Young Hilda. Shortly after completion of that project she was cast in Robert Rodriguez' Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002), and has been involved in the film industry ever since. She has worked on 3 Rodriguez films now including _Spy Kids 3D : Game Over (2003)_ and The Adventures Of Sharkboy and Lavagirl In 3D (2005)_. Independent short films she has worked on include Matt Robertson's award-winning The Faith of Joey Rail (2005) (for which Tiger received a Special Juried Citation for Acting from Abilene's WESTfest), Iskra Valtcheva's Iris Moon (2007), Harrison Witt's Chickenfüt (2007), and Michelle Herrin's Details. Her voice can be heard in numerous ADV produced anime cartoons including Cosplay Complex, Happy Lesson (2002) and Magical Play.
In the summer of 2005 Tiger completed filming the indie-feature Pathogen (2006) directed by 'Emily Hagins' in which she plays Christine. She also wrapped filming the Burnt Orange Production feature, The Cassidy Kids (2006) in which she stars as Rebecca Vanderpool with Anne Ramsay (Mad About You (1992), Six Feet Under (2001), The L Word (2004)), Kadeem Hardison (A Different World (1987)), and Judah Friedlander (American Splendor (2003)). She is currently in pre-production for The Anatomy of a Frog (2007) written and directed by Sarah Dowling.
Tiger is a straight A honor-roll student attending public school in Austin, Texas. When she is not acting she enjoys writing screenplays, filming stop-motion animation films, cartooning, composing music (she plays classical, acoustic and electric guitar, cello, mandolin), training her dog, Widget, hanging out with friends, going to movies and traveling in the States and abroad.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous - Tiger majors in Music Composition and Theory at New York University. Prior to making the move to NYC, she was a music major at the prestigious Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas. Austin raised, Tiger is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, cellist who appears regularly as a headlining performer at theaters, nightclubs, special events, and private parties nationally and internationally.
Accolades include a nomination for Best Female Vocalist 2011 by the Dallas Observer, two National Downbeat Music Awards for Studio Engineering, and a finalist nod from the John Lennon Songwriting Competition for her song "Sunshine Song". Her music video for "The Writer" was an official selection of the 2010 Foursite Film Festival. The music video for "As One" which was shot and directed by Brian Guilliaux was seen on CNN.com. Most recently, she was honored to have two of her compositions selected for performance by the NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble. Tiger has appeared on magazine covers, and has been featured in numerous publications.
In 2011, Tiger released two CDs; the self-produced, "You Know Who You Are", and the foreverything music produced, "Hello".
Tiger grew up on film sets. As an actress, she has appeared in more than a dozen films including Robert Rodriguez' Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Spy Kids3-D: Game Over, and Shark Boy and Lava Girl. Tiger was employed at Troublemaker Studios as a crew member in 2010. While working on post-production for the feature film, Machete, Rodriguez selected three of her compositions for use in the score of the film. Following post-production on Machete, Tiger returned to TMS to work on the production of Spy Kids 4 as an on-set assistant to the director.
The Born Free Foundation, dedicated to wildlife preservation, adopted Tiger's song "Beautiful Release" to benefit the foundation; the song is linked to the foundation's website and all downloads benefit the organization.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Mom is actress, Peyton Hayslip.
- Tiger plays cello, guitar, electric guitar, bass, and some piano, mandolin, and violin. She is a composer and singer/songwriter. She began playing violin at the age of 2, and taught herself to play guitar when she was about 10, and cello when she was 12.
- At age 13, Tiger wrote, directed, filmed (on a Panasonic DVX100a at 24fps), edited (on Final Cut Pro), and composed some of the music for her first film, Mp3. The film subsequently screened at the Loud and Clear Film Festival in Austin, Texas, and then was selected as an official selection of the Foursite Film Festival in Ogden, Utah. Tiger created the film under the guidance of the Austin School of Film Master Class. She was one of the youngest students in the class. Mp3 starred Tiger's sister, Kitty Stuart, Jon Henry, Garry Peters, and Peyton Hayslip... who happens to be Tiger's real-life mom, too.
- Tiger is a graduate of the prestigious Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
- In 2011, Tiger was a John Lennon Songwriting Award Finalist. Her song, Sunshine Song, was one of 4 songs selected in the Songs for Children category.
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