Sophie Auster (born July 6, 1987, Brooklyn, New York City) is a Jewish American actress and singer. She is the daughter of author and film director Paul Auster and writer Siri Hustvedt. At the age of eight, Auster began to take singing lessons. A year later she had a very small part in a film; by the age of twelve she began acting lessons. At 16, she expressed an interest in pursuing a music career, and her father made use of his connections by contacting Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp of the musical duo One Ring Zero.