Julia Stiles

  • Name: Julia Stiles
  • Date of Birth: March 28, 1981
  • Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Mini-bio: Encouraged to take modern dance lessons at an early age, she was introduced to Shakespeare and theater as well. At age 11, she made her debut as a child actress with the experimental off-Broadway L...( read more)a MaMa Theatre.

She 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) (Hamlet).
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Born Julia O'Hara Stiles on March 28, 1981, in New York City, she is of Irish, Italian and English stock. The outgoing daughter of an elementary school teacher (father) and a Greenwich Village artist (mother), she is the eldest of three children. Encouraged to take modern dance lessons at an early age, she was introduced to Shakespeare and theater as well.
At age 11, she made her debut as a child actress with the experimental off-Broadway La Mama Theatre. Her passion grew and by the next year was performing professionally and working in commercials. A bright, precocious student, she was seriously considered for the child vampire role of Claudia in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) but lost out in the end to Kirsten Dunst. She continued training at New York's Professional Children's School and, at 15, made her cinematic bow with I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) with Claire Danes. Next featured as the daughter of Harrison Ford in The Devil's Own (1997), her breakout role came on TV with the hard-hitting mini-movie "Before Women Had Wings" (1997), which was produced by Oprah Winfrey and dealt with child abuse. As Ellie Christianson in Wicked (1998), Julia demonstrated a more evil side to her budding versatility. Her wish to play Shakespeare was granted threefold with her participation in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), which was based on the Bard's "The Taming of The Shrew" and won her the Chicago Film Critics Award as the volatile teen Kat; an updated version of Hamlet (2000) which paired her Ophelia with Ethan Hawke; and another updated version of "Othello" entitled O (2001), which had her high school character of Desi involved in a mixed romantic relationship with African-American Mekhi Phifer. The violent-edged film was made in 1998 but not released until three years later due to the tragic Colorado student shootings at Columbine High School. In addition, Julia later portrayed Viola off-Broadway in a Shakespeare-in-the-Park production of "Twelfth Night" in 2002. She temporarily interrupted her career after deciding to enroll at Columbia University in 2000, majoring in English. Moving into mainstream roles by the millennium, she co-starred with the popular Matt Damon in The Bourne Identity (2002) and its sequel, appeared opposite Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) and won offbeat notice in the title role of Carolina (2003) with Shirley MacLaine and Randy Quaid as an eccentric actress wannabe who capriciously takes off to Hollywood to pursue her dream. Most recently she returned from Iceland where she filmed A Little Trip to Heaven (2005). Unable to find that one role to put her over the top, this lovely actress continues to engage movie audiences with a potent range of characters in the meantime.

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Eye color: brown
Height: 5' 8"
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Education: Columbia University, New York's Profressional Children's School
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Personal interests/hobbies: Watching Baseball
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Other: 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."



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  • Audreea
    Audreea
    Hy. I was soo your movies and i like them very much. Im a big fun of you. I hope someday we can see each other in a concert or in a film premier.
    posted 1 day ago
  • neelvparmar
    neelvparmar
    hi,Julia i am your huge fan here. and talk about your excallent work in Omen movie and so i wanted to wantch another time or again. so thanks!
    posted 61 days ago
  • hilia110
    hilia110
    hi julia
    posted 64 days ago
  • hilia110
    hilia110
    hi julia,how are u?
    posted 64 days ago
  • mavimavomart7
    mavimavomart7
    love you soo much Julia
    posted 66 days ago
  • mscynsin
    mscynsin
    I love her work. Very talented young actress who will go far. Keep up the good work.
    posted 89 days ago
  • mikefoot6
    mikefoot6
    Fan dabby dosy in the bourne films as Nikki, and very hot!!
    posted 102 days ago
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    posted 106 days ago
  • MissSherryW
    MissSherryW
    and his creepy so called poetry doesn't even make any sense.
    posted 108 days ago
  • munkybeans86
    munkybeans86
    That guy below, is extremely effin creepy
    posted 109 days ago
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