A 41-year-old actress who claimed the Internet Movie Database unfairly disclosed her real age lost a case against the site this week after a federal jury in Seattle rejected her lawsuit.

Huang "Junie" Hoang believed IMDb breached its legal contract when the site listed her birthdate after she had strategically removed a false birthdate she had previously posted on her IMDbPro account, The Hollywood Reporter reported. Hoang said she often plays younger acting roles and IMDb's move hurt her chances of obtaining gigs.

Fellow actors and the Screen Actors Guild had supported Hoang's argument in a statement issued in early 2012 (Hoang filed her lawsuit in 2011).

"Screen Actors Guild applauds the determination and courage of the plaintiff in standing up to fight the unfair and abusive practice of publishing actors’ private information online without their consent," SAG wrote. "An actor's job is to portray someone else."

"When personal information, like a birthdate, is used to limit who an actor can portray, creativity is harmed, and the actor is harmed."

Hoang has played roles in such TV shows and movies as Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver, I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant, Dysfunctional Friends and 1000 Ways to Die.

In addition to the age disclosure complaint, Hoang complained about the way IMDb confirmed her real age.

"Hoang also made an issue of how IMDb had allegedly used credit information when she signed up to IMDb's Pro account and how IMDb's employees used a third party verification website to gain information to use in her profile," THR wrote.

IMDb — a searchable database of movie, TV and celebrity information — attracts more than 160 million unique monthly visitors to its website and app.

Image courtesy of IMDb