Jessica Biel has received various accolades, including a Young Artist Award, and nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards.
37 Facts About Jessica Biel
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In 1997, Jessica Biel won the Young Artist Award for her role in the drama film Ulee's Gold.
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Jessica Biel received further recognition for her lead role as Erin Hardesty in the horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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In 2017, Jessica Biel was the executive producer and star of the USA Network limited drama series The Sinner, for which she received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
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Jessica Claire Biel was born on March 3,1982, in Ely, Minnesota, to Kimberly, a homemaker and spiritual healer, and Jonathan Biel, a business consultant and General Electric worker.
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Jessica Biel's family moved frequently during her childhood, living in Texas, Connecticut, and Woodstock, Illinois, before finally settling in Boulder, Colorado.
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Jessica Biel began modeling for print advertisements and appeared in commercials for products such as Dulux Paint and Pringles.
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At age 14, after auditioning for several television pilots, Jessica Biel was cast as Mary Camden, the oldest daughter and second-oldest child in the family drama 7th Heaven.
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Jessica Biel landed her first feature film role as Peter Fonda's granddaughter in the critically acclaimed drama Ulee's Gold, released in 1997.
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Jessica Biel later expressed regret for doing it, claiming she had been used and that she had been shown different pictures from those published.
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In 2001, Jessica Biel played the love interest of Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Jessica Biel was cast in her first top-billing role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Jessica Biel appeared in the 2004 film Cellular; played a supporting role, Ellen, in the romantic comedy Elizabethtown ; and starred in the indie film London.
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In 2006, Jessica Biel played a turn-of-the-century duchess in the period piece The Illusionist, co-starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti.
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In Next Jessica Biel starred alongside Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore.
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In late 2007, Jessica Biel signed on to play a stripper in Powder Blue, alongside Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta and Patrick Swayze.
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At the start of 2008, Jessica Biel shot Easy Virtue, an adaptation of the play by Noel Coward.
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In 2009, Jessica Biel lent her voice to the animated science fiction film Planet 51.
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Jessica Biel performed the role of Sarah Brown with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a fully staged concert production of Guys and Dolls during the 2009 season at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Jessica Biel subsequently landed a part in Lincoln Center Theater's two-week-long workshop of the musical version of the Pedro Almodovar film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, along with Salma Hayek.
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In 2010, Jessica Biel starred in the large ensemble cast film Valentine's Day and in the A-Team, based on the television series as Capt.
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In 2012, Jessica Biel starred in the remake of the 1990 science fiction movie Total Recall alongside Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale.
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Jessica Biel portrayed actress Vera Miles in the biographical film Hitchcock, based on Stephen Rebello's book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.
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Jessica Biel appeared in Playing for Keeps with Gerard Butler.
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Jessica Biel starred in the thriller film Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18,2013.
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The film premiered on April 17,2015, at the Tribeca Film Festival, receiving mixed reviews, though Jessica Biel earned praise for her performance.
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In 2016, Jessica Biel co-starred with Patrick Wilson in the thriller A Kind of Murder, based on the novel The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith.
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Jessica Biel voiced the character Vix in the animated film Spark, with Susan Sarandon and Hilary Swank, which was released in 2016.
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Jessica Biel appeared in the drama The Book of Love, based on the book The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, about an introverted architect who loses his wife and sets out to help a teenager named Millie.
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Jessica Biel produced the project from its conception some years prior, and was directed by Bill Purple, who directed her in the short film Hole in the Paper Sky.
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Jessica Biel is both executive producer and played the series' lead character Cora Tannetti.
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Jessica Biel stated that she moved into production so that she could develop projects with challenging and interesting roles rather than waiting for them to happen.
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Jessica Biel and Timberlake have two sons together: one born in April 2015, and another born in July 2020.
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On July 18,2006, Jessica Biel participated in a charity auction to raise medical funds for teen Molly Bloom, who was injured in a limousine accident.
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In early 2007, Jessica Biel co-founded the Make the Difference Network with her father and another business partner, Kent McBride.
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In 2010, Jessica Biel climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with members of the United Nations Foundation to raise awareness of the global water crisis.
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That same year Jessica Biel earned a nomination for a Do Something Award.