Julia Stiles

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Julia Stiles (2007)

Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981 in New York City , New York ) is an American theater and film actress .

She began her career in the theater with roles in smaller productions, then switched to leading roles in plays by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and David Mamet and is now also successful as a film actress.

biography

Julia Stiles was born the eldest of three children to John O'Hara, a teacher and businessman, and Judith Stiles, a potter. Her family is of Irish-English-Italian descent. She attended Quaker School in Manhattan and studied English at Columbia University in New York. In May 2005 she completed her studies after five years, which she had interrupted several times because of various film projects.

As a Democrat, Stiles supported John Kerry's candidacy for President of the United States in 2004. She also worked for an organization that builds houses in Costa Rica and for Amnesty International to raise awareness of the harsh punishments for young immigrants.

Stiles has been married to Preston Cook since September 2017. Their son was born in October 2017.

Theater career

Julia Stiles was a member of the La Mama Theater at the age of eleven. Since her appearance in a play by Eve Ensler and in a production of William Shakespeare's What you want with Zach Braff , she has been considered a serious stage actress. In the spring of 2004 she played in a revival of David Mamets Oleanna in London .

Film career

At the age of 15, Julia Stiles appeared in the film I love you, I love you not with Claire Danes , Jude Law and James Van Der Beek for the first time in a cinema production after a few guest roles that she had received from 1993 .

She was also seen in Familiar Enemy (1997) as the daughter of Tom O'Meara ( Harrison Ford ) and in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake (1998). She had her first leading role in 1998 in Wicked . The film didn't make it into US cinemas, however.

It was only with her role as Katarina Stratford alongside Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew , that Julia Stiles achieved her breakthrough as a film actress. In 1999 she received an MTV Movie Award for best newcomer. Stiles and her film partner Freddie Prinze Jr. in Den One or None also received a Teen Choice Award nomination.

Stiles appeared more frequently in Shakespeare films; After 10 things I hate about you , she played Ophelia in Hamlet with Ethan Hawke in 2000 and Desdemona to Mekhi Phifer's portrayal of Othello in 2001 in a modern version of the subject: O - trust, seduction, betrayal .

For the dance drama Save the Last Dance (2001), in which she played a talented ballerina who falls in love with a colored boy from the ghetto with a hip-hop attitude, she received another MTV Movie Award for best kiss and best Actress. In State and Main (2000) by David Mamet , she played a young girl who seduces an actor while filming in a small town. In 2001 she portrayed Stockard Channing's opponent in Business of Strangers .

In the movie The Bourne Identity , Stiles first took on the role of CIA agent Nicky Parsons in 2002 , who she also appeared in three sequels to the Bourne film series with Matt Damon , The Bourne Conspiracy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016) played.

In 2003 she took on leading roles in Chance Makes Love and Carolina - In Search of Mr. Perfect , and in the same year as a student in Mona Lisa's smile , alongside Julia Roberts as her art professor, who tries to convince her to prefer a lawyer instead of wife and mother to become. In 2004 she played the leading role in the comedy film Der Prinz & ich , in which her character falls in love with a prince. She also appeared in 2010 in the fifth season of Showtimes TV series Dexter as Lumen Pierce . The role of a murder witness who begins a campaign of revenge against her former tormentors earned her a Golden Globe nomination in 2011 . In March 2012, it was the Indian thriller for the US remake of Midnight Sun cast.

Other film and television roles followed; her work includes more than 50 productions.

Others

In one scene of the film 10 Things I Hate About You , by it shown character in the novel reads The glass bell (The Bell Jar) the American author Sylvia Plath . Stiles secured the film rights in 2007 and wanted to take on the lead role in a planned film adaptation, which was not realized.

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bunte : After Baby Shitstorm: Now she strikes back
  2. ↑ tvsquad.com
  3. ^ Julia Stiles to Walk in the Midnight Sun for NBC. In: Dreadcentral.com. Retrieved August 27, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Sascha Lehnartz: Starlet for the thinking audience . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , September 9, 2007.

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SURNAME Stiles, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiles, Julia O'Hara (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York