PINT-SIZED charmer Abigail Breslin turns 12 next month, but boasts a resume that is the envy of Hollywood veterans many years her senior, including a nomination for a coveted Oscar award.

Breslin already has worked on some 15 films, including a starring turn in the 2006 movie “Little Miss Sunshine,” for which she earned her Academy Award nomination.

Her latest project, “Nim’s Island,” set to hit U.S. movie screens next month, is a fantasy adventure about a young girl lost at sea with her scientist father.

“It’s about a girl and her father who live on an island that nobody knows about. It’s not on any map whatsoever,” she said at a press conference in Los Angeles in advance of the movie’s debut.

In “Nim’s Island” she plays opposite Hollywood powerhouse Jodie Foster, one of many luminaries she’s shared the screen with during her short career.

Foster, once a child star herself, said she knows well the pitfalls of the profession for an underage actor, but said Breslin is a gifted natural when she’s on-screen, and refreshingly grounded when she’s not.

“She has something that I don’t have, or I didn’t have as a young person: she has strong access to her emotions,” Foster said on her young co-star’s acting technique.

(SD-Agencies)