1. Julia O'Hara Stiles was born on March 28,1981 and is an American actress.
41 Facts About Julia Stiles
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Julia Stiles's film debut was a small role at age 15 in I Love You, I Love You Not, followed by a lead role in Wicked for which she received the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award for Best Actress.
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Julia Stiles rose to prominence with leading roles in teen films such as 10 Things I Hate About You, Down to You, and Save the Last Dance.
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Julia Stiles's accolades include a Teen Choice Award and two MTV Movie Awards, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award, and Primetime Emmy Award.
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Julia Stiles added to her list of credits with films such as The Business of Strangers, Mona Lisa Smile, and The Omen, and became known to audiences worldwide with her portrayal of Nicky Parsons in the Bourne franchise.
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Outside of film, Julia Stiles played Lumen Pierce on the fifth season of Dexter, earning nominations for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress.
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Julia Stiles starred in the Amazon series The Lake.
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Julia Stiles was born in New York City to Judith Newcomb Julia Stiles, a Greenwich Village artist, and John O'Hara, a businessman.
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Julia Stiles is the oldest of three children; her siblings are John Junior and Jane.
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Julia Stiles started acting at age 11, performing with New York's La MaMa Theatre Company.
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Julia Stiles made her acting debut in 1993 on the mystery show Ghostwriter as Erica Dansby.
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Julia Stiles had small roles as Harrison Ford's character's daughter in Alan J Pakula's The Devil's Own and in M Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake.
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Julia Stiles was cast at the age of 17 for the role of Kat Stratford, opposite Heath Ledger in Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in a high school in Seattle.
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Julia Stiles won an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance for the role.
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Julia Stiles's next starring role was in Down to You, which was panned by critics, but earned both her and her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Julia Stiles told Rolling Stone that she performed all her own dancing in the film, except for some closeups of the feet.
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Julia Stiles appeared opposite Stockard Channing in the dark art house film The Business of Strangers as a conniving, amoral secretary who exacts revenge on her boss.
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Julia 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, directed by Martha Coolidge.
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Julia Stiles told an interviewer that she was very similar to her character Paige Morgan.
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Critic Dennis Harvey wrote that Julia Stiles was "wasted" and Holden called her "a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally".
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In 2006, Julia Stiles starred opposite her Hamlet co-star Liev Schreiber in The Omen, a remake of the 1976 horror film.
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Julia Stiles returned to the Bourne series with a much larger role in The Bourne Ultimatum, her highest-grossing film to date.
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Julia Stiles acted in Between Us with Taye Diggs, David Harbour, and Melissa George.
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Julia Stiles starred alongside David Cross and America Ferrera in the dark comedy It's a Disaster.
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Julia Stiles had a small but pivotal role as a reporter in the 2013 British-American film Closed Circuit.
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Julia Stiles starred in the indie supernatural thriller Out of the Dark alongside Scott Speedman and Stephen Rea.
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In 2015, Julia Stiles signed on to reprise her role as Nicky Parsons in Jason Bourne, the fifth installment of the Bourne franchise.
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Julia Stiles featured as Courtney, the wayward mother of Sophie Nelisse, in The Great Gilly Hopkins.
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In 2019, Julia Stiles appeared in the movie Hustlers as the journalist, Elizabeth.
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Julia Stiles reprised the role of Carol in a 2009 production of Oleanna, directed by Doug Hughes and co-starring Bill Pullman at the Mark Taper Forum.
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Julia Stiles was to play Jeannie in a production of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig directed by the playwright beginning in spring 2011, but the show was postponed indefinitely.
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Julia Stiles appeared in the video for Cyndi Lauper's single "Sally's Pigeons" in 1993.
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Julia Stiles made her writing and directorial debut with Elle magazine's short Raving starring Zooey Deschanel.
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Julia Stiles graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English literature in 2005.
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Julia Stiles almost turned down the first Bourne film because of college exams, and deferred a semester for the first two films.
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Julia Stiles has worked for Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica, and has worked with Amnesty International to raise awareness of the harsh conditions of immigration detention of unaccompanied juveniles.
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Julia Stiles says she gave up veganism after she developed anemia and found it difficult to get proper nutrition while traveling.
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Julia Stiles has described herself as a feminist and wrote about the subject in The Guardian.
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Julia Stiles is a fan of baseball and the New York Mets.
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Julia Stiles threw the ceremonial first pitch before their May 29,2006 game.
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In September 2017 Stiles married camera assistant Preston J Cook with whom she worked on Blackway.