Los Angeles - It may have been the best performance in young Riley Weston's career, but in the end the curtain came crashing down on the 32-year-old actress who shot to fame this past summer as an 18-year-old Wunderkind writer.
Previously known as Kimberlee Elizabeth Kramer, Weston lied about her age to land a writer's job on the TV show Felicity on the WB network. Its producers believed she understood its central character, an 18-year-old college freshman. Her job on Felicity led her to an agent at the Beverly Hills-based United Talent Agency, followed by a two-year, $500,000 writing and production contract with the Walt Disney Co division, Touchstone Television, according to Daily Variety.
The magazine, Entertainment Weekly, got wind of the news and pronounced her one of Hollywood's 100 most creative people, and Weston was the talk of the town. All that Hollywood buzz, however, turned to groans of disbelief on Thursday as Weston's secret was disclosed in headlines such as "Old Enough to Know Better".