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...director's knack for ushering in new talent is any guide, Q'ORIANKA KILCHER'S face is one worth watching. Kilcher, 14, plays Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's The New World, now filming in Britain. Malick gave first big breaks to Richard Gere, in 1978's Days of Heaven, and James Caviezel, in 1998's The Thin Red Line. An aspiring singer, Kilcher had her only previous film role in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, as a little choir member. The Peruvian Indian sang a blues tune at her screen test for Malick. "She had the innocence of the young...
...could she have known who played Dynasty's Alexis Carrington Colby? Or had time to care? Till she was 14, Jewel Kilcher grew up in an unelectrified log cabin on an 800-acre homestead near Homer, Alaska. Her father Atz Kilcher was a folk singer, the son of a Swiss immigrant to Alaska who helped write the state charter (Grandpa Kilcher still tools around occasionally in his horse and buggy in Homer, scaring the residents). Her mother Nedra Carroll also sang and dabbled in other crafts. When Jewel was eight, her parents divorced, and her mother left for Anchorage. Jewel...