Julia Stiles - Wikipedia. Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 2. American actress. Born and raised in New York City, Stiles began acting at age 1. Erica Dansby in six episodes of the television series Ghostwriter (1.

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Her first film role was in ILove You, I Love You Not (1. Wicked (1. 99. 8), for which she was awarded the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award for Best Actress. She went on to gain prominence for her lead roles in teen films such as 1. Things I Hate About You (1. MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and was nominated for two Teen Choice Awards, Down to You (2. Teen Choice Awards, and Save the Last Dance (2. Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress and was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance.

Stiles later went on to transition to more adult roles, garnering a nomination for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her performance in The Business of Strangers (2. Mona Lisa Smile (2.

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The Omen (2. 00. 6). She became known to a wider audience for her supporting role alongside Matt Damon as Nicky Parsons in the Bourne film series (2. She had a recurring role as Lumen Pierce in the fifth season of the Showtime series Dexter (2. Watch Reasonable Doubt Online Freeform.

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. As a member of the cast of Silver Linings Playbook (2. Stiles was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Stiles appears in the Blue web series also broadcast on television (2. Other film roles include romantic comedy. The Prince and Me (2.

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Go With Me).[1]Early life[edit]Stiles was born in New York City,[2] to parents Judith Newcomb Stiles, a potter, and John O'Hara, a businessman.[3] She is the eldest of three children; she has a brother, Johnny, and a sister, Jane.[4] Stiles is of English, Irish, and Italian descent.[5] She started acting at the age of 1. New York's La Ma. Ma Theatre Company.[6]Film career[edit]Stiles' first film role was in I Love You, I Love You Not (1. Claire Danes and Jude Law.[7] She also had small roles as Harrison Ford's character's daughter in Alan J. Pakula's The Devil's Own (1. M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake (1.

Her first lead was in Wicked (1. Critic Joe Balthai wrote she was "the darling of the 1. Sundance Film Festival."[8]In 1.

Kat Stratford, opposite Heath Ledger, in Gil Junger's 1. Things I Hate About You, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in a high school in Tacoma, Washington. She won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance for the role. The Chicago Film Critics voted her the most promising new actress of the year. Her next starring role was in Down to You (2.

Freddie Prinze, Jr. Teen Choice Award nomination for their on- screen chemistry. She subsequently appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations. The first was as Ophelia in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2. Ethan Hawke in the lead.

The second was in the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer, in Tim Blake Nelson's O (2. Othello set at a boarding school. Neither film was a great success; O was subject to many delays and a change of distributors, and Hamlet was an art house film shot on a minimal budget. Stiles's next commercial success was in Save the Last Dance (2. Illinois to live with her struggling musician father in Chicago after her mother dies in a car accident. At her new, nearly all- black school, she falls in love with the character played by Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip- hop dance steps that get her into the Juilliard School.

The role won her two more MTV awards for Best Kiss and Best Female Performance, and a Teen Choice Award for best fight scene for her battle with Bianca Lawson. Rolling Stone pronounced her "the coolest co- ed", putting her on the cover of its April 1. She told Rolling Stone that she performed all her own dancing in the film, though the way the film was shot and edited might have made it appear otherwise.[9]In David Mamet's State and Main (2. Vermont, she played a teenaged girl who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a weakness for teen girls. Stiles also appeared opposite Stockard Channing in the dark art house film The Business of Strangers (2. Channing was impressed by her co- star: "In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost feral, something that can make people uneasy.

She has an effect on people."[1. Stiles also had a small but crucial role as Treadstone operative Nicolette "Nicky" Parsons in The Bourne Identity (2. The Bourne Supremacy (2.

The Bourne Ultimatum (2. Between the Bourne films, she appeared in Mona Lisa Smile (2. Watch Fear, Inc. Download.

Joan, a student at Wellesley College in 1. Julia Roberts) encourages her to pursue a career in law rather than become a wife and mother.

Critic Stephen Holden referred to her as one of cinema's "brightest young stars",[1. Stiles played a Wisconsin college student who is swept off her feet by a Danish prince, played by Luke Mably in The Prince and Me (2. Martha Coolidge. Stiles told an interviewer that she was very similar to her character Paige Morgan. Critic Scott Foundas said while she was, as always, "irrepressibly engaging", the film was a "strange career choice for Stiles".[1. This echoed criticism in reviews of A Guy Thing (2. Jason Lee and Selma Blair. Critic Dennis Harvey wrote that Stiles was "wasted"[1.

Stephen Holden called her "a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally".[1. In 2. 00. 5, Stiles was cast opposite her Hamlet co- star Liev Schreiber in The Omen, a remake of the 1. The film was released on June 6, 2. She returned to the Bourne series with a much larger role in The Bourne Ultimatum in 2. Stiles began filming Between Us in May 2.

Taye Diggs, David Harbour, and Melissa George. Between Us is the screen adaptation of the off- Broadway play by the same name written by playwright Joe Hortua.[1.

In 2. 01. 2, Stiles starred alongside David Cross and America Ferrera in the dark comedy It's a Disaster.[1. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was picked up by Oscilloscope Laboratories and received a commercial release in April 2. Stiles had a small but pivotal role as a reporter in the 2. British- American film Closed Circuit. In April 2. 01. 3, it was announced that Stiles will be starring in an indie supernatural thriller Out of the Dark alongside Scott Speedman and Stephen Rea. Filming began in Bogotá, Colombia.[1. In 2. 01. 5, Stiles signed on to reprise her role as Nicky Parsons in Jason Bourne, the fifth installment of the Bourne franchise.[1] She also featured as Courtney, the wayward mother of Sophie Nélisse, in The Great Gilly Hopkins, which premiered in U.

S. cinemas on October 7, 2. Stage career[edit]Stiles's first theatrical roles were in works by author/composer John Moran with the group Ridge Theater, in Manhattan's Lower East Side from 1. From July to August 2. Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues,[2. Viola, the lead role in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night with Jimmy Smits.[2. In the spring of 2. London stage debut opposite Aaron Eckhart in a revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre.[2.

She reprised the role of Carol in a 2. Oleanna, directed by Doug Hughes and co- starring Bill Pullman at the Mark Taper Forum.[2. The production moved to Broadway's John Golden Theatre for October 1. Stiles was to play Jeannie in a production of Neil La. Bute's Fat Pig directed by the playwright beginning in April 2. Other work[edit]Stiles appeared in the video for Cyndi Lauper's single, "Sally's Pigeons", in 1. On March 1. 7, 2.

Stiles hosted Saturday Night Live and, eight days later, she was a presenter at the 7. Academy Awards.[2. She returned to Saturday Night Live on May 5, appearing as then- President George W.

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