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Julia Stiles Profile |
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Birth Date: March 28, 1981
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Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Julia O'Hara Stiles
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Height: 5'8"
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Biography |
Julia Stiles was born March 28, 1981, in New York, NY. While
growing up in Soho, where her parents ran a pottery
business, Julia was encouraged to take on a different kind
of art -- drama.
When she was 11 years old, she took matters into her own
hands and wrote a letter to the director of La Mama Theater,
in hopes of getting an audition. It worked, and she had the
chance to expand her resume with roles in Matthew: School of
Life and The Sandalwood Box, both at the Kitchen Theater.
Julia moved up the ranks by working in television, with a
recurring guest-appearance on the series, Ghostwriter, and a
bit part in the 1996 film I Love You, I Love You Not,
starring Claire Danes and Jude Law. She then had the chance
to appear as Harrison Ford's daughter in the disappointing
film, The Devil's Own.
It took roles in the made-for-TV movie Oprah Winfrey
Presents: Before Women Had Wings, as well as Wicked (which
garnered her the Best Actress Award at the KVI Film
Festival) and Wide Awake, for Julia to land the role that
would gain her the recognition she deserved, and it was on
TV nonetheless. She starred in NBC's miniseries, The '60s,
in 1999.
In the tradition of summer teenybopper films, 10 Things I
Hate About You was released in 1999 and became a hit, not
only among moviegoers, but also with critics. Julia starred
as the feisty and sarcastic Katarina (Kat) -- or the Shrew
-- in the modern retelling of Shakespeare's The Taming of
the Shrew.
Julia not only earned many fans after her 10 Things I Hate
About You starring role, but she also earned a nomination
for Young Star Award for Best Performance by a Young Actress
in a Comedy Film, and won the MTV Movie Award for Best
Breakthrough Female Performance and the Best Promising
Actress Award at the CFCA Awards.
Next for Julia came the college romance, Down To You,
co-starring the teen films' staple actor, Freddie Prinze Jr.
Julia took on a second Shakespeare inspired movie, with a
version of Hamlet set in corporate America rather than
Denmark, and since three's a charm, she also starred in O, a
film adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello.
Successfully avoiding being pigeonholed into strictly teen
films, Julia co-starred in State and Main with Alec Baldwin
and Sarah Jessica Parker, and then used her love for hip-hop
to star in 2001's Save the Last Dance.
The Calvin Klein Jeans model will next be seen in The
Business of Strangers and The Bourne Identity. |
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Other
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Graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English
(2005)
chosen as one of Teen People Magazine's "21 Hottest Stars
Under 21" [1999]
Has been in three remakes of Shakespeare plays; 10 Things I
Hate About You (1999) (The Taming of The Shrew), O (2001)
(Othello) and _Hamlet (2000/I)_ (Hamlet).
In 1999, Julia graduated from New York's Professional
Children's School, which prepares students for careers in
the arts.
During her hiatus from Save the Last Dance (2001), she
signed up with Habitat for Humanity International, an
organization that builds homes for the needy.
Voted one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.
[2001]
Is a college classmate of Anna Paquin.
One of Teen People Magazine's "25 Hottest Stars under 25"
[2002]
Julia Stiles began her career at the La Mama Theater and the
Kitchen Theater in New York.
Won the 2001 Teens Choice Drama Award for her role in Save
the Last Dance (2001).
No longer a vegan and when Conan O'Brien asked her what the
first bite of a hamburger was like she responded; "The word
orgasm comes to mind." (December 2003)
Has dated the Prince of Denmark in two movies, _Hamlet
(2000/I)_ and The Prince & Me (2004).
Shares a birthday with Reba McEntire and Vince Vaughn.
Is of Irish (paternal side) and English and Italian
(maternal side) descent. Her parents are John O'Hara and
Judith Stiles.
Is a die hard New York Mets fan. |
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