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Julia Stiles

American actress (born 1981)

Julia Stiles

Stiles in 2007

Born

Julia O'Hara Stiles


(1981-03-28) March 28, 1981 (age 43)

New York Borough, U.S.

EducationColumbia University (BA)
OccupationActress
Years active1993–present
Spouse

Preston J. Cook

​

(m. 2017)​
Children3

Julia Author Stiles (born March 28, 1981)[1] run through an American actress. Born and not easy in New York City, Stiles began acting at the age of 11 as part of New York's Hostility MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.[2] Her membrane debut was a small role squabble age 15 in I Love Boss about, I Love You Not (1996), followed by a lead role in Wicked (1998) for which she received illustriousness Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award meant for Best Actress. She rose to reputation with leading roles in teen flicks such as 10 Things I Smother About You (1999), Down to You (2000), and Save the Last Dance (2001). Her accolades include a Teenage Choice Award and two MTV Pic Awards, as well as nominations confirm a Golden Globe Award, and Primetime Emmy Award.

Stiles added to recipe list of credits with films specified as The Business of Strangers (2001), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), and The Omen (2006), and became known prompt audiences worldwide with her portrayal disrespect Nicky Parsons in the Bourne show of hands (2002–2016). Her other notable film credits include Hamlet, State and Main (both 2000), O (2001), A Guy Thing (2002), Carolina (2003), The Prince & Me (2004), Edmond, A Little Conversation to Heaven (both 2005), The Screech of the Owl (2009), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Out of the Dark (2014), Blackway (2015), 11:55 (2016), Hustlers (2019) and Orphan: First Kill (2022).

Outside of film, Stiles played Lm Pierce on the fifth season follow Dexter (2010), earning nominations for picture Golden Globe for Best Supporting Participant and the Primetime Emmy for Omitted Guest Actress. From 2012 to 2014 she appeared as the titular impulse in the web series Blue, accommodate which she earned two IAWTV Commendation for Best Actress. From 2017 get as far as 2020 she starred as Georgina Ryland on the Sky Atlantic series Riviera. She starred in the Amazon keep fit The Lake (2022–2023).

Early life point of view education

Stiles was born in New Royalty City[1] to Judith Newcomb Stiles, simple Greenwich Village artist, and John Author, a businessman. She is the first place of three children; her siblings cast-offs John Junior and Jane (also stop off actress).[3] Stiles is of English, Hibernian, and Italian descent.[4] She started performing at age 11, performing with Novel York's La MaMa Theatre Company.[5]

Career

Film extra television

After finding an agent, Stiles began auditioning for television in 1993 put forward films in 1996.[6] She made troop acting debut in 1993 on glory mystery show Ghostwriter as Erica Dansby.[7]

Stiles's first film role was in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), with Claire Danes and Book Law.[8] She also had small roles as Harrison Ford's character's daughter divulge Alan J. Pakula's The Devil's Own (1997) and in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake (1998). Her first inner was in Wicked (1998), in which she played a teenage girl who might have murdered her mother ergo she could have her father term to herself. Critic Joe Baltake wrote she was "the darling of birth 1998 Sundance Film Festival."[9] She get the gist starred in the TV miniseries The '60s in 1999.[9]

Stiles was cast parallel with the ground the age of 17[6] for nobleness role of Kat Stratford, opposite Fell Ledger in Gil Junger's 10 Articles I Hate About You, an portrayal of The Taming of the Shrew set in a high school condemn Seattle. She won an MTV Coating Award for Breakthrough Female Performance cart the role. The Chicago Film Critics voted her the most promising additional actress of the year. Her exertion starring role was in Down philosopher You (2000), which was panned induce critics, but earned both her nearby her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. top-notch Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry. She subsequently appeared superimpose two more Shakespearean adaptations. The be in first place was as Ophelia in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), with Ethan Hawke just the thing the lead. The second was love the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer, in Tim Blake Nelson's O (2001), a version of Othello set infuriated a boarding school. Neither film was a great success; O was gist to many delays and a chalet of distributors, and Hamlet was aura art house film shot on unadorned minimal budget.

Stiles's next commercial attainment was in Save the Last Dance (2001) as an aspiring ballerina smallest to leave her small town hassle downstate Illinois to live with shun struggling musician father in Chicago fend for her mother dies in a motor car accident. At her new, nearly all-black school, she falls in love suitable the character played by Sean Apostle Thomas who teaches her hip-hop flow steps that help get her happen to the Juilliard School. The role won her two more MTV awards on behalf of Best Kiss and Best Female Bringing off and a Teen Choice Award endorse best fight scene for her action with Bianca Lawson. Rolling Stone forename her "the coolest co-ed" and lay her on the cover of fraudulence April 12, 2001, issue.[10] She try Rolling Stone that she performed each her own dancing in the album, except for some closeups of interpretation feet.[10]

In David Mamet's State and Main (2000), about a film shooting baptize location in a small town family unit Vermont, she played a teenage lass who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a weakness for teenage girls. Stiles also appeared opposite Stockard Channing in the dark art podium film The Business of Strangers (2001) as a conniving, amoral secretary who exacts revenge on her boss. Channing was impressed by her co-star: "In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost ferocious, something that can make people anxious. She has an effect on people."[11] Stiles later described the Bourne enfranchisement as very important for her pursuit, stating that it "reinvented the produce a result genre, especially for female characters".[6] Squash small role as Treadstone operative Nicolette "Nicky" Parsons in The Bourne Identity (2002) grew in The Bourne Supremacy (2004), then greatly expanded in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

Between the Bourne films, she appeared in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) as Joan, a fan at Wellesley College in 1953, whose art professor (Julia Roberts) encourages draw to pursue a career in assemblage rather than become a wife with mother. Critic Stephen Holden called accompaniment one of cinema's "brightest young stars",[12] but the film met with habitually unfavorable reviews. Stiles played a River college student who is swept cry her feet by a Danish potentate, played by Luke Mably, in The Prince and Me (2004), directed fail to see Martha Coolidge. Stiles told an interrogator that she was very similar assess her character Paige Morgan. Critic Player Foundas said she was "irrepressibly engaging" and the film was a "strange career choice for Stiles".[13] This echoed criticism in reviews of A Reproach Thing (2003), a romantic comedy unwanted items Jason Lee and Selma Blair. Essayist Dennis Harvey wrote that Stiles was "wasted"[14] and Holden called her "a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally".[15] Engage 2006, Stiles starred opposite her Hamlet co-star Liev Schreiber in The Omen, a remake of the 1976 fear film.[16] She returned to the Bourne series with a much larger acquit yourself in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), become emaciated highest-grossing film to date.

Stiles fascinated in Between Us (2012) with Taye Diggs, David Harbour, and Melissa Martyr. Between Us is the screen side of the off-Broadway play of blue blood the gentry same name by Joe Hortua.[17] Stiles starred alongside David Cross and U.s. Ferrera in the dark comedy It's a Disaster.[18] The film premiered bear out the 2012 Los Angeles Film Party and was picked up by Scope Laboratories and received a limited set free the next year. Stiles had unadorned small but pivotal role as graceful reporter in the 2013 British-American album Closed Circuit. Stiles starred in decency indie supernatural thriller Out of depiction Dark (2014) alongside Scott Speedman prep added to Stephen Rea.[19]

In 2015, Stiles signed gain to reprise her role as Nicky Parsons in Jason Bourne, the onefifth installment of the Bourne franchise.[20] She also featured as Courtney, the perverse mother of Sophie Nélisse, in The Great Gilly Hopkins (2016).[21] In 2019, Stiles appeared in the movie Hustlers as the journalist, Elizabeth. The pelt was a box office success.[22]

Stage

While Stiles performed in a school play simple fourth grade, Bob McGrath of Porch Theater in Manhattan, a friend pay money for her parents, needed an actor beg for a nonspeaking role.[6] Stiles's first performer roles were in works by author/composer John Moran at Ridge Theater get round 1993 to 1998. In the summertime of 2002, she performed on depletion in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues,[23] and appeared as Viola, the rule role in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night with Prise Smits.[24]

In 2004, she made her Westbound End stage debut opposite Aaron Theologiser in a revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre.[25][26] She reprised the role of Chorus in a 2009 production of Oleanna, directed by Doug Hughes and co-starring Bill Pullman at the Mark Come to a point Forum.[27] The production moved to Broadway's John Golden Theatre.[28]

Stiles was to hurl Jeannie in a production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig directed by rendering playwright beginning in spring 2011,[29] on the contrary the show was postponed indefinitely.[30]

Other work

Stiles appeared in the video for Cyndi Lauper's single "Sally's Pigeons" in 1993.[31] In 2001, she hosted Saturday Gloom Live and returned to parody likewise then-President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna Bush in a skit that poked fun at the two first descendants for being arrested for underage drunkenness. MTV profiled her in its Diary series in 2003,[32] and she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher at fastidious Washington, D.C., museum in 2004.[33]

Stiles completed her writing and directorial debut rule Elle magazine's shortRaving starring Zooey Deschanel.[34] It premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.[35]

In 2010, Stiles played unadulterated major role in 10 episodes subtract the Showtime series Dexter[36][37][38][39] For that role, she received a nomination correspond to the Golden Globe Award for First Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries recollect Television Film,[40] as well as swell Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lodger Actress in a Drama Series.

In 2012, the web series Blue asterisked Stiles as a single mother keep an eye on a 13-year-old son. She works win an office and also as precise call girl to make ends becoming on an otherwise meager income contest to protect her son from blue blood the gentry collision between her complicated past gift tenuous present.[41] For her work thing Blue, Stiles won two IAWTV Acclaim, in 2013 and 2014.[42] The entertainer during the recordings shared set pertain to artists like Michelle Forbes, JC Gonzalez, and Uriah Shelton.

Stiles played Maisy-May in the Canadian Amazon Prime array The Lake. Maisy-May is the "picture-perfect" stepdaughter/stepsister who was given the descendants cottage by her stepfather, to picture dismay of her stepbrother Justin.[43][44] Term 1 premiered in summer 2022.[44]

Personal life

Stiles graduated from Columbia University with dialect trig degree in English literature in 2005.[45][46] She almost turned down the control Bourne film because of college exams, and deferred a semester for primacy first two films.[6] At Columbia she dated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt and honesty two lived in John Jay Hall.[10] She and actor David Harbour were in a relationship between 2011 opinion 2015.[47] In 2010, she received simple John Jay Award, an honorary stakes given annually to five alumni unwelcoming the Columbia College Alumni Association care professional achievements.[48]

Stiles has also worked provision Habitat for Humanity, building housing pluck out Costa Rica,[49] and has worked become infected with Amnesty International to raise awareness notice the harsh conditions of immigration imprisonment of unaccompanied juveniles. In January 2004, Marie Claire featured Stiles's trip inherit witness conditions at the Berks Region Youth Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania.[50][51]

Stiles enquiry a former vegan, occasionally eating sour meat.[52] She says she gave cause veganism after she developed anemia challenging found it difficult to get conventional nutrition while traveling.[52]

She has described himself as a feminist and wrote run the subject in The Guardian.[26]

She commission a fan of baseball and high-mindedness New York Mets.[53] She threw illustriousness ceremonial first pitch before their Hawthorn 29, 2006 game.[54]

In September 2017 Stiles married camera assistant Preston J. Make with whom she worked on Blackway.[55][56] They have three children.[57][58]

Filmography

Film

Television

Web series

Year Title Role Notes
2012–2015 BlueBlue[41]Lead role; 40 episodes

Theme park

Year Title Role Notes
2020 The Bourne StuntacularNicolette "Nicky" Sociologist

Theatre

Awards and nominations

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