Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "윌라 홀랜드" in Korean language version.
Willa was born into a Hollywood family - her mother Darnell De Palma was an actress and father Keith Holland is a cinematographer. Her stepfather is Brian De Palma, famed director of films such as Scarface and Mission Impossible, and also introduced Willa to talent agencies at the age of seven
In all honesty, I only went to high school for about six weeks, partly because I got a job and also because I just didn't get along with high school too well. I got bullied, and just didn't have a good school experience throughout...At school no one believed I was an actress at first—that was the funny part. They just thought I was a total liar. I proved them all wrong, right?
She was discovered by Steven Spielberg - in his garden no less...she was seven years old at the time, playing with his kids. Her stepdad is Brian de Palma.
"I was playing over at Steven Spielberg's house' – next door to stepfather Brian De Palma's place in the Hamptons – 'and he was filming little wedding scenes and doing homevideos,' she says. When her parents came to pick her up, Spielberg insisted, 'You've got to put her in front of a camera.' De Palma was for it, too.
