Which actress played Bethany Hamilton in the 2011 surfing film Soul Surfer?

AnnaSophia Robb played Bethany Hamilton in the 2011 surfing film Soul Surfer.

Soul Surfer is a biographical drama based on surfer Bethany Hamilton’s memoir and the shark attack that caused her to lose her left arm in 2003. AnnaSophia Robb portrayed Hamilton, while Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt played her parents.

The film dramatizes Hamilton’s recovery, return to surfing, and family support. Some surfing sequences used a combination of Robb’s performance, visual effects, and footage involving Hamilton herself. The movie was directed by Sean McNamara and released in 2011.

Robb is sometimes confused with Kate Bosworth, who played a fictional professional surfer in Blue Crush. The two films are both associated with surfing, but they tell different stories and feature different lead actresses.