Daughter of actress Pat Musick and Jeffrey Whitman. Got her start in acting aged three when she impressed casting directors by interrupting her mum's audition and proceeding to tell her off because she was bored. The casting directors were so impressed with her that one, to get a reaction, observed her white-and-purple outfit and said, "My, what a pretty yellow dress you're wearing." Whitman looked back at him and replied, "What are you, some kind of knucklehead?" Has a horse named Grunt Is good friends with Lalaine An only child. Has played Bill Pullman's daughter twice: Once in Independence Day as Patricia Whitmore and once in Merry Christmas, George Bailey as Zuzu Bailey.