What is Abigail Breslin doing today? Little Miss Sunshine cast reunites at Sundance 20 years after film's premiere

On January 28, Little Miss Sunshine actress Abigail Breslin graced the red carpet at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival to reunite with her former cast on the film’s 20th anniversary.

According to E! Online reports, Breslin, 29, wore an auburn-shade sweater and a matching skirt and pair of tan ankle-length boots as she attended the event with co-stars Paul Dano, Greg Kinnear, and Toni Collette.

“I remember loving my cowboy boots and keeping those. And tonight I’m actually wearing a little homage to cowboy boots. Yeah, like a sly moment,” Breslin told the reporters from the red carpet.

Following the screening at Sundance, Abigail also shared a hazy groupfie with the trio on her @abbienormal9 Instagram account on Thursday.

“Another blurry selfie courtesy of ya girl [yellow heart emoji] @sundanceorg @foxsearchlight,” the caption read.

This was Breslin’s rare public appearance after two years. Her last film, Classified, came out in 2024. Since then, she has been enjoying her married life with self-proclaimed “cryptoconnoisseur” Ira Kunyansky. In fact, the couple celebrated their third wedding anniversary earlier this week.

“Happy 3-year wedding anniversary, babekin. I love u so much,” her January 28 Instagram post read alongside an image with Kunyansky.

For those unaware, 11-year-old Abigail Breslin earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Olive Hoover in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ directorial debut, Little Miss Sunshine.

All about Abigail Breslin’s life after ‘Little Miss Sunshine’

Abigail Breslin, also known as former child actor Spencer Breslin’s younger sister, began her career with the 2002 horror movie Signs. Next came the romcom Raising Helen (2003), where the sister-brother duo also appeared as on-screen siblings.

She played a cameo on the 2004 film, The Princess Diaries 2, before landing her breakout role in Little Miss Sunshine in 2006. Over the next two years, she played supporting roles on Nim’s Island, No Reservations and Definitely Maybe.

Abigail Breslin told Christy Carlson Romano on her Vulnerable podcast in 2024 that Little Miss Sunshine made her feel insecure and self-conscious.

Abbie got her debut lead on Kit Kittredge: An American Girl in 2008, followed by My Sister’s Keeper and Zombieland the next year. By then, Abigail Breslin became a popular Hollywood teenager known for her chic sense of style and for her 2010 critically-acclaimed Broadway role as Helen Keller in the revival of The Miracle Worker.

Between 2011 and 2015, she was busy with frequent movie roles on Rango, The Call, August: Osage County, Ender’s Game, Final Girl, Fear Inc, and Maggie, before earning her first big TV project, the racy and short-lived Fox series, Scream Queens, where she played Libby Putney.

Abigail appeared as Frances “Baby” Houseman on the television remake of Dirty Dancing as well as on the off-Broadway production of All the Fine Boys in 2017, while already filming the Zombieland sequel Double Tap, which was released two years later.

Abbie, who also goes by Abigail Breslin-Kunyansky and uses the pronouns she/ her, describes herself as an “actress/ musician/ author/ wife to @richruski” on her Instagram bio.

As for her music career, she recorded five original songs in her own role in the 2011 movie, Janie Jones. Since then, Breslin has dropped a solo holiday song called Christmas in New York (2013) and a breakup single titled You Suck (2014). The latter was a shot at her ex-boyfriend and 5 Seconds of Summer member Michael Clifford.

During an October 2019 interview with Refinery 29, Abigail Breslin admitted that people “hated” her song about Clifford and how she faced online trolls and even death threats. She shared:

“When you’re 16 years old, and you like a guy, your mind is different. That’s when I realized that my mistakes are public mistakes… People want certain things from child stars or child actors.”

The Stillwater (2021) actress continued:

“You have to be really smart and really cool, but also they want you to be not too precocious. Not too done up, but not too little girlish. If you wear this, then you’re a sl*t; if you wear that, you’re a prude. It kind of took a few years in my teens for people to stop viewing me as just a little girl.”

Abbie further spoke with Teen Vogue about her brief music career.

"I started writing and singing and taught myself guitar when I was about 13 after filming Janie Jones. I get ideas throughout the day and I'll record them into my phone and figure it out that night [she said about working on her music while filming]. I get inspiration from guys — they're obviously a huge source of information — living in New York, and my friends and experiences we have."

About sharing the screen with A-listers, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep, on the 2013 movie August: Osage County, Abbie once told Entertainment Weekly:

“Working with Meryl Streep was a huge thing for me. She's not the type of person who will come up and give you advice or tell you what to do; she's just so professional on set. She's always there off-camera for other actors, and she just gives 110 per cent. To me, that's the kind of actor I want to be.”

Streep even gave her a keepsake, a little drawing of her character, at the end of production. Meanwhile, Roberts appeared “pretty intimidating, very nerve-racking” at first, according to Breslin’s statement to The Independent, before she realized the senior actress was both warm and funny.

Throughout her career, Abigail Breslin shared the screen with other high-profile celebrities, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matt Damon, Halle Berry, and Emma Stone.

In 2018, Abbie credited her mother, Kim Walsh, for teaching her how to stand up for herself while speaking with InStyle. She also told EW about how her family has been supportive in maintaining a “set-free zone” at home, and growing up in NYC instead of LA helped her stay “grounded.” Her dad and tech expert Michael Breslin died from COVID-19 complications in February 2021, aged 78.

A year before that, Abigail Breslin spoke up about being a s*xual assault victim at the hands of an ex-boyfriend during the SA Awareness Month. She shared developing PTSD and being in “denial” in the wake of the incident. Since then, Abbie has been an advocate against domestic violence, s*xual assault, abuse, and mental health issues.

In recent years, she has defended her friendship with Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany, called out fat-shamers, promoted body-positivity, spoken about her eating disorder (anorexia), and got married to his longtime boyfriend, Ira Kunyansky, in 2023.

She told PEOPLE Magazine in 2024 how she and her husband enjoy watching murder mysteries together, and are “obsessed” with 20/20 and Dateline.

Abigail Breslin joked:

“There's this YouTube channel called the ‘Impossible Channel,’ and we watch all of the creepy videos online. Most people get creeped out, but we fall asleep through that. So it's like we're creepy together. We're just creepy people.”

Abbie also called Ira her “best friend” and noted hanging out with him 24/7 is “really fun,” and she was looking forward to spending their lives together.

Notably, the actress, who recently worked as a voiceover artist for video games and audio dramas, briefly dated All Time Low guitarist Jack Barakat when she was 17 and he was 25.

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According to The List, Abigail Breslin was slapped with a lawsuit by Dream Team studios and WM Holdings in November 2023 for accusing her Classified co-star Aaron Eckhart of “aggressive, demeaning, and unprofessional behavior.”

However, the producers later claimed that her allegations were “wild, hysterical, and imaginary” and made them waste $80,000 to ensure that Breslin and Eckhart didn’t have to work together, despite playing daughter-father on screen. They also accused her of contract breach. However, the civil suit was later withdrawn.

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