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Clea DuVall Profile |
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Birth Date: September 25, 1977
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Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Birth Name: Clea Helen D'etienne DuVall
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Clea DuVall is an American film and television
actress known for playing characters outside the mainstream.
Clea DuVall was born in Los Angeles to Stephen DuVall and
Rosemary Hatch. Her parents divorced when she was twelve,
and, when her mother remarried, DuVall moved out because she
did not feel at home in the newly structured family unit,
dropping out of high school and getting her own apartment.
She sought entertainment in movies and television programs,
memorizing entire scenes. Though a rather shy person, DuVall
decided she wanted to be an actress, and returned to high
school, this time the Los Angeles County High School of the
Arts, while working to support herself.
DuVall's first major role came in Robert Rodriguez's 1998
take on the alien-body-snatcher genre, The Faculty (1998),
which featured other up-and-coming young actors such as
Elijah Wood and Josh Hartnett. DuVall played Stokes, a tough
Goth girl. Similar roles came in But I'm a Cheerleader
(1999) as a tattooed lesbian and Girl, Interrupted (1999) as
a mental patient.
In 2004, DuVall featured in the three-hour television
remake/prequel movie Helter Skelter as former Charles Manson
"Family" member Linda Kasabian, who became the Star Witness
for the Prosecution in the infamous 1969 Hollywood,
California Tate-LaBianca murder trial. |
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Other
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Graduated from the L.A. County High School for the Arts.
[June 1995]
Took a small role in She's All That (1999) to support her
friend, Rachael Leigh Cook, in her first leading movie role.
The two met on the set of The Defenders: Payback (1997)
(TV).
Practices tae kwon do.
Worked in a coffee shop before appearing in Little Witches
(1996).
Is an only child
She and Katharine Towne worked together in 3 movies in the
span of two years. They first appeared in Girl (1998), then
as best friends in She's All That (1999), and finally as two
lesbians trying to prove their true directions in But I'm a
Cheerleader (1999).
Often works with her good friend Summer Phoenix. |
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