She's the spitting image of her late father, has inherited his passion for wildlife, and now 11-year-old Bindi Irwin is following “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin's footsteps into Hollywood-style movies. Bindi makes her feature film acting debut in “Free Willy: Escape from Pirates Cove,” being released Tuesday on DVD as the fourth movie based on the 1990's franchise about a young boy helping free an Orca trapped in captivity. “Pirates Cove,” however, is a new story about an Australian girl (Irwin) helping a baby Orca trapped at her grandfather's theme park on the shores of South Africa. Growing up with a larger-than-life personality like Australian adventurer Steve Irwin, who died in 2006 after a stingray attack, seems like a natural evolution for Bindi. She came into this world camera-ready when her father filmed her birth. Growing up, she often was featured on his shows such as “The Crocodile Hunter” and “The Croc Files” on U.S. TV network Animal Planet. For a while, Bindi even had her own kids documentary series, “Bindi the Jungle Girl.”
