Twenty-three years ago, she offered a "warm and soft" gummi bear to
a defeated high school principal while riding an Illinois school bus in
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off." As a result, she has been dubbed the "gummi
bear girl" -- or as IMDB calls her in a slight improvement, "Girl on
Bus." But young actress Polly Noonan went on to do more impressive things than merely offering sweet, squishy candy to older men in John Hughes movies. 
Noonan,
who now lives in New York City, has remained committed to the craft of
acting. Her film credits may be few; most notably, she appeared with
Johnny Depp in a little-seen film called "Arizona Dream" and, later, in the Steve Martin film "Novocaine." But Noonan has made a real name for herself in the theater.
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