Brewster left Panama when she was 2 months old, relocating to London, where she would spend 6 years, before moving to her mother’s native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she learned to speak Portuguese fluently. Brewster studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York and graduated from the Professional Children’s School in New York. Phoebe’s mixture of self-confidence, bewilderment, and vulnerability is entirely credible.” Brewster had her breakthrough role when she starred opposite Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in the car-themed action film The Fast and the Furious, which was a box office hit (with an over $207 million worldwide gross) and received critical acclaim.
