Julia Stiles

At 43 years old, Julia Stiles has this physical status:

Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981) is an American actress.

Stiles, who was born and raised in New York City, began acting at the age of 15.

I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), her first film appearance was in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), then followed by a leading role in the thriller Wicked (1998), for which she was given the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

She went on to become known for her lead roles in teen films, such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), where she was nominated for two Teen Choice Awards, Down to You (2000), and Save the Last Dance (2001), winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance and was nominated for another two Teen Choice Awards, as well as another for Best Teen Choice Award for Best Female Performance. Stiles went on to more adult roles, including a nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for her role in The Business of Strangers (2001), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), and The Omen (2006).

In the Bourne film series (2002–2016), she became known to a larger audience for her supporting role as Nicky Parsons alongside Matt Damon.

Lumen Pierce appeared in the fifth season of Showtime's Dexter (2010), receiving the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

Stiles was nominated for the Outstanding Achievement by a Cast in a Motion Picture as a member of the Silver Linings Playbook (2012). Stiles appears in the Sky Atlantic series Riviera (2018–present) and appears in the Blue web series that also broadcast on television (2012–2015).

Other film roles include romantic comedy The Prince and Me (2004), noir-inspired drama-thriller A Little Trip to Heaven (2004), Between Us (2012), Out of the Dark (2014), and Anthony Hopkins in Blackway (2016) (also known as Go With Me).

Early life

Stiles was born in New York City to parents Judith Newcomb Stiles, a Greenwich Village artist, and John O'Hara, an elementary school teacher. She is the oldest of three children; her siblings, John Junior and Jane, are both actors. Stiles of English, Irish, and Italian descent. She began acting at the age of 11 with La MaMa Theatre Company in New York.

Personal life

In 2005, Stiles graduated from Columbia University with a degree in English literature. She dated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in college, and the two were married in John Jay Hall. She and actor David Harbour were in a relationship between 2011 and 2015. In 2010, she was given a John Jay Award, a Columbia College Alumni Association annual honorary award given to five alumni for their academic achievements.

Stiles has served with Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica, and Amnesty International to raise concerns of the tough conditions of immigrant detention detention of unaccompanied juveniles. Marie Claire Barrett starred Stiles' visit to see the conditions at the Berks County Youth Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania, in January 2004.

Stiles is a former vegetarian who occasionally eats red meat. She stopped going vegan after she had anemia and found it difficult to get adequate nutrition while traveling. In The Guardian, she has described herself as a feminist and wrote about it.

She is a big fan of baseball and the New York Mets. She threw the ceremonial first pitch before the game on May 29, 2006.

Preston J. Cook, a camera assistant who worked on Blackways, announced her engagement on January 3, 2016. In September 2017, they were married. Their son, Strummer Newcomb Cook, was born on October 20, 2017. Stiles revealed on Instagram in January 2022 that she had given birth to a boy named Arlo.

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Career

Stiles' debut film appearance was in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), with Claire Danes and Jude Law. She appeared in several films, including in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake (1998). She also appeared in Harrison Ford's Man's Own (1997) and in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake (1998). In Wicked (1998), she was playing a teenage girl who may have murdered her mother in order to have her father all to herself. "The darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival," critic Joe Balthai wrote. In 1999, she appeared in The '60s, a made-for-TV film.

In Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You, an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in a high school in Tacoma, Washington, later this year. For the role, she received an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance. The Chicago Film Critics named her as the year's most promising new actress. Her next acting role was in Down to You, which was mocked by critics, but Freddie Prinze, Jr. and her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. received both her and her co-star a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry. She appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations since then. In Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (2000), Ophelia was leading, with Ethan Hawke leading the first. In Tim Blake Nelson's O (2001), a version of Othello set at a boarding school, the second was in the Desdemona role opposite Mekhi Phifer. Neither film was a huge success; O was subjected to many delays and a change of agents; and Hamlet was an art house film shot on a tiny budget.

Stiles' next commercial success was in Save the Last Dance (2001), when an aspiring ballerina was forced to leave her small town in downstate Illinois to live with her struggling musician father in Chicago after her mother died in a car crash. She falls in love with the character developed by Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip-hop dance steps, which helped her enroll her in Juilliard School. For her battle with Bianca Lawson, she earned two more MTV awards for Best Kiss and Best Female Performance, as well as a Teen Choice Award for best fight scene. Rolling Stone dubbed her "the coolest co-ed" and included her on the front page of its April 12, 2001 issue. She told Rolling Stone that she did all her own dancing in the film, though the film's style and edited may have made it appear otherwise.

She played a teen girl who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a penchant for teenage girls in David Mamet's State and Main (2000), a film shot in a tiny Vermont town. Stiles appeared in the dark art house film The Business of Strangers (2001) as a conniving, amoral secretary demanding revenge on her boss. Channing was captivated by her co-star's talent: "She has a demeanor that is almost feral," she says, a characteristic that can make people uncomfortable." "She has a knock on people." Stiles also played a small part in The Bourne Identity (2004), which was later extended to The Bourne Supremacy (2004) but then greatly expanded in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

Joan, a student at Wellesley College in 1953, and her art professor (Julia Roberts), encourages her to pursue a career in law rather than becoming a wife and mother in one of Bourne's films. Critic Stephen Holden referred to her as one of cinema's "brightest young actors," but the film received generally critical feedback. In The Prince and Me (2004), Martha Coolidge's Stiles played a Wisconsin college student who is swept off her feet by a Danish prince. Stiles told an interviewer that she was remarkably like her character Paige Morgan. Scott Foundas, a critic, said she was "irrepressibly funny" in the film, and that Stiles' film was a "strange career option for them." This echoed criticism in reviews of A Guy Thing (2003), a romantic comedy starring Jason Lee and Selma Blair, was echoed in this review. Stiles was "wasted," according to critic Dennis Harvey, and Stephen Holden called her "a serious actor from whom comedy does not naturally flow." Stiles was co-starring Liev Schen in The Omen, a 1976 horror film made in 2005. On June 6, 2006, the film was released. She returned to the Bourne Ultimatum in 2007, which is her highest-grossing film to date.

Stiles began filming Between Us in May 2011 with co-stars Taye Diggs, David Harbour, and Melissa George. Between Us is the screen version of playwright Joe Hortua's off-Broadway play between Us and him. Stiles appeared in the dark comedy It's a Disaster (2012) alongside David Cross and America Ferrera. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was acquired by Oscilloscope Laboratories and released in April 2013. Stiles appeared in the 2013 British-American film Closed Circuit, having a small but pivotal role as a reporter. Stiles will be seen in an indie supernatural thriller Out of the Dark alongside Scott Speedman and Stephen Rea in April 2013. In Bogotá, Colombia, filming began.

Stiles resurfaced as Nicky Parsons in Jason Bourne, the fifth iteration of the Bourne franchise, in 2015. In The Great Gilly Hopkins, the wayward mother of Sophie Nélisse, who premiered in American cinemas on October 7, 2016.

Stiles played Elizabeth, the journalist, in the film Hustlers in 2019. The film debuted on September 13, 2019, and it became a box office hit.

Stiles' first theatrical appearances were in productions by author/composer John Moran of the association Ridge Theater in Manhattan's Lower East Side from 1993 to 1998. She appeared in Eve Ensler's The Vain Monologues from July to August 2002, and appeared as Viola, the leading role in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night with Jimmy Smits.

In the spring of 2004, she made her London debut opposite Aaron Eckhart in a revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre. At the Mark Taper Forum, she reprised her role as Carol in a 2009 revival of Oleanna, directed by Doug Hughes and co-starring Bill Pullman. For the first night of the Broadway production, the company toured the John Golden Theatre in Broadway's John Golden Theatre.

Stiles had intended to appear Jeannie in a play directed by Neil LaBute's Fat Pig in April 2011, but the performance was postponed indefinitely.

Stiles appeared in the video for Cyndi Lauper's single "Sally's Pigeons" in 1993. Stiles appeared on Saturday Night Live on March 17, 2001, and eight days later, she was a host at the 73rd Academy Awards. Jenna Bush, then-President George W. Bush's daughter, appeared in a skit on Saturday Night Live on May 5 mocking the two first daughters for underage drinking. In 2003, MTV starred her in its Diary series, and Ashton Kutcher was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher at a Washington, D.C. museum in the spring of 2004.

Stiles made her writing and directorial debut with Elle magazine's short Raving, starring Zooey Deschanel. It premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

Stiles was in a major role in the showtime series Dexter in May 2010 and has been signed for ten episodes. Stiles received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or Television Film, as well as a prestigious Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

The web series Blue, which was produced by WIGS, premiered in June 2012. Stiles appears as a single mother with a 13-year-old son in the film. She works at a company as well as as a call girl to make ends meet on an otherwise meager income and her son's safety from the collision between her complex history and tumultuous present. Stiles received two IAWTV Awards in 2013 and 2014 for her work on Blue. The actress appeared on stage with musicians including Michelle Forbes, JC Gonzalez, and Uriah Shelton.

In 2021, it was announced that she had been cast as Maisy-May in the Canadian Amazon Prime series The Lake. She is the "picture-perfect" stepdaughter/stepsister who was given the family cottage by her stepfather much to her stepbrother Justin's dismay. The film was shot in North Bay, Ontario, from August to September 2021. Season 1 is due to be published on June 17, 2022.

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