Clea DuVall

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Clea DuVall (2019 crop) .jpg Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977 in Los Angeles ) is an American actress .

biography

Her parents divorced when DuVall was twelve years old. When the mother remarried, 16-year-old DuVall moved out of her home, took an apartment and initially also left school. Eventually she decided to become an actress and graduated from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts in 1995 while making a living serving in a restaurant. She had her breakthrough as an actress in 1998 in Robert Rodriguez 's horror film The Faculty , for which she was nominated for both a Teen Choice Award and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award . This was followed by major supporting roles in the films Because I'm a Girl and Crazy (both 1999).

Since then, DuVall has played numerous leading roles in independent films as well as supporting roles in the mainstream and often appeared in front of the camera for television. For her role in the television film Helter Skelter , she was nominated for the 2004 Golden Satellite Award in the category Best Actress . From 2003 to 2005 she starred in 23 episodes of the award-winning HBO series Carnivàle . In the first season of the series Heroes , she had a recurring role as an FBI agent in 2006. In 2008 she starred in the film Passengers with Anne Hathaway . In January 2009, Jonathan Liebesman's thriller Experiment Killing Room premiered at the Sundance Film Festival , in which DuVall played one of four initially unsuspecting test subjects on whom the government is conducting secret experiments. Other roles in the film are Timothy Hutton , Chloë Sevigny and Peter Stormare . In the same year she was included in the pilot film for a planned science fiction series Virtuality - Killer in the system with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Sienna Guillory to the crew of a spaceship.

In 2016 DuVall wrote the screenplay for the tragic comedy The Intervention , in which she also directed and starred.

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Out Magazine (July 2000): The New Girls Of Summer ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 18, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cleaduvall.net
  2. ↑ IMDb: Awards for Carnivàle , accessed December 18, 2008
  3. ^ IMDb: Synopsis and cast of The Killing Room , accessed January 21, 2009
  4. ↑ IMDb: Virtuality (2009) , accessed December 18, 2008
personal data
SURNAME DuVall, Clea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DuVall, Clea Helen D'Etienne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States