Liane Balaban created a major splash with her debut as the 15-year-old Mooney Pottie, a '70s misfit longing to escape the Cape Breton coal-mining town in Alan Moyle's New Waterford Girl (Sundance 2000). For her performance, she received a Special Jury Citation at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Subsequent film credits include starring roles in John L'Ecuyer's Saint Jude, and Jeremy Podeswa's After the Harvest with Sam Shepard. Liane also appeared with Julianne Moore and Billy Crudup in Bart Freundlich's World Traveler, and starred opposite David Arquette in Michael Almereyda's Happy Here and Now.

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On making Seven Times Lucky:
"Everybody in the film is a grifter. There's not even an extra that doesn't look like a shady character. Actually, I don't think there's a single upstanding, wholesome-looking person in the movie."

"Fiona is a role-player. She's an actress without knowing it. All of her cons involve her reinventing herself in a way. And in that sense she's a lot like me because that's what I do here every day. We both like to escape into other characters."