Juliette Lewis

At 50 years old, Juliette Lewis has this physical status:

Juliette Lake Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress and singer best known for her portrayals of offbeat characters, often in films with dark themes.

Lewis became a "it girl" of American cinema in the early 1990s, appearing in numerous independent and arthouse films.

Her awards include a Pasinetti Award, one Academy Award nomination, one Golden Globe Award nomination, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Geoffrey Lewis, Lewis' daughter, began her television career at the age of 14 before being cast in her first major film role as Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989).

Lewis went on to receive international recognition for her role as a defiled teenage daughter in Martin Scorsese's version of Cape Fear (1991), which saw Lewis nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Golden Globe in the same category. Lewis played a supporting role in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992), followed by the dramatic Kalifornia (1993), in which she played a childlike woman whose boyfriend is a serial murderer.

She appeared in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape (also 1993), where she played a young drifter.

Lewis gained more attention for her lead role in Oliver Stone's controversial comedy film Natural Born Killers (1994), which earned her the Pasinetti Award for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

She appeared in Strange Days (1995), Kathryn Bigelow's cult science fiction film, and Robert Rodriguez's vampire film From Dusk To Dawn (1996).

Lewis played a key role in the drama The Other Sister's in 1999, as a mentally impaired woman. Lewis appeared in a number of supporting roles in independent films and studio films in the 2000s, and in 2003 she received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Support Actress for her role in Hysterical Blindness (2002).

Lewis began performing as a solo artist in comedies such as Old School (2004) and Starsky & Hutch (2004), and began a musical career in 2003, founding Juliette and the Licks.

The sports comedy Whip It (2009), the biographical crime film Conviction (2010), and the drama August: Osage County (2013) were among the script titles.

Lewis appeared on television more often in the later 2010s, appearing in lead roles on the television shows The Firm (2012), Wayward Pines (2015), Secrets and Lies (2015–2016).

Personal life

Lewis told Vanity Fair in 2010:

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Life and career

Juliette Lake Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 21, 1973, to actor Geoffrey Lewis and his first wife, Glenis (née Duggan) Batley, a graphic designer. She has seven siblings or half-siblings, including Lightfield (an actress who appeared in The New WKRP in Cincinnati), Peter, Miles, Matthew, Brandy, Hannah, and Dierdre. Emily Colombier, Emily Colombier, has also as a step-sister.

Lewis' parents divorced when she was two years old, and she spent her childhood in Los Angeles between both their families. In Bronco Billy (1980), in which her father played a supporting role, she made her first on-screen appearance.

Lewis appeared in the television film Home Fires (1987), her first big screen appearance. Lewis' performance in the film was lauded by Los Angeles Times writer Howard Rosenberg, who wrote, "lights up the screen." She appeared on television show I Married Dora, which aired from 1987 to 1988. She was emancipated from her parents (with their permission) at the age of 14 in order to allow her to more freely work. Lewis recalled her emancipation as "I know that sounds all revolutionary, but when you start acting, they're like, 'Well, if you want to work, they're like a democratic minor versus minor, because you can work over eight hours." Lewis lived with actress Karen Black, who was a mentor to her for a brief period of time. Lewis dropped out of high school at the age of 15.

She appeared in My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988), before landing her first major support role as Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989). She continued her acting in Meet the Hollowheads and The Runnin' Kind (both 1989). Lewis appeared on The Wonder Years as Wayne's girlfriend, Delores.

Lewis co-starred with Brad Pitt in the Lifetime television film Too Young to Die?, a crime film loosely based on the murder of Attina Marie Cannaday, playing a troubled young woman thrust into a world of cocaine and heroin. Lewis herself was in danger during this time after entering a bar at age 16, for which she was arrested and charged with underage drinking.

Lewis first attracted foreign notice and kudo for her appearance as Danielle Bowden, the daughter of a family abused by psychopathic criminal Max Cady (Robert De Niro), in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991), which also stars Jessica Lange and Nick Nolte. "Though Danielle admits Max, she is willingly implicated in his scheme," Vincent Canby of The New York Times applauded her contribution. It's one of Mr. De Niro's finest moments. Miss Lewis is also known to be a young actress of dazzling possibilities. The scene is the center of the film. Lewis received critical praise for her appearances, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Entertainment Weekly and Complex's review of her character's seduction sequence was dubbed one of the most memorable scenes in film history.

She played a supporting role in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives in 1992, followed by That Night, a coming-of-age drama set in the 1960s that marked Katherine Heigl and Eliza Dushku's debut films. Lewis appeared in many films in 1993, including Peter Medak's neo-noir Romeo Is Bleeding, in which she played the mistress of a corrupt cop played by Gary Oldman. She reunited with former co-star Brad Pitt in the drama Kalifornia, in which she played a childlike woman whose boyfriend is a serial murderer. Lewis' appearance in the latter film was one of the most "most moving and convincing performances I've ever seen," critic Roger Ebert wrote. Kalifornia, Lewis, and Pitt had been dating since 1990, but the two couples had been separated the year before the film was released. In the Lasse Hallström-directed drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), portraying a young man and his mentally ill brother in a tiny Iowa town. Lewis appeared in the Melissa Etheridge song "Come to My Window," (1993), depicting a mental patient.

In Oliver Stone's controversial satirical crime film Natural Born Killers (1994), Lewis portrayed Mallory Knox, a murderous woman embarking on a killing spree with her psychotic lover Mickey (Woody Harrelson). Lewis' appearance was praised as "sensational" by critic Peter Travers and then nominated for its graphic violence and inciting copycat murders, and she was given the Pasinetti Award for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, despite the fact that the film was criticized for its graphic violence and inciting copycat murders. In Nora Ephron's Christmas-themed comedy Mixed Nuts last year, she had a supporting role opposite Steve Martin. Lewis appeared in Kathryn Bigelow's science fiction film Strange Days (1995), doing her own singing on the covers of two songs written by PJ Harvey. Despite a major box-office setback, Strange Days continued to develop a cult in subsequent years. Lewis was also reunited with her What's Eating Gilbert Grape co-star DiCaprio, appeared alongside him in a supporting role in the crime drama The Basketball Diaries (1995). Lewis, 22, began heroin use for many years, and completed the Narconon program within the Church of Scientology this year.

Lewis appeared in The Evening Star (1996), a flop sequel to Terms of Endearment (1983), opposite Shirley MacLaine and Bill Paxton, for the upcoming year. She appeared in Robert Rodriguez's action horror film From Dusk to Dawn (1996). Lewis, a writer and co-starring Quentin Tarantino, portrayed a teenage girl and her family kidnapped by bank robbers who led them to a bar in rural Mexico populated by vampires. Lewis appeared in Any Girl (1998) and The Other Sister (1999), a feminist young woman in San Francisco struggling to find independence. The film received mostly critical feedback, but Stephen Holden of The New York Times praised it as "beautifully acted." Carla is played by Ms. Lewis with a toning sense of humor and emotion, and body language is so precise that you soon forget it is a performance." Lewis married professional skateboarder Steve Berra in September 1999.

Lewis appeared in The Way of the Gun in 2000 and was featured as a vocalist on the band "Bad Brother" on the album "Bad Brother" by The Crow: Salvation soundtrack album, which was released in April. She then appeared in Picture Claire (2001), opposite Gina Gershon, and later in the independent lesbian-themed drama Gaudi Afternoon (2001), co-starring Judy Davis and Lili Taylor. Both Taylor and Lewis "overact like second-string sketch sketch artists on Saturday Night Live," according to A. O. Scott of The New York Times. Lewis then played a supporting role in Enough (2002), portraying a battered woman as the friend of a battered woman (played by Jennifer Lopez).

Lewis was nominated for Outstanding Support Actress in the television film Hysterical Blindness (2002), which starred Uma Thurman and Gena Rowlands as the friend of a woman in 1980s New Jersey who has a psychiatric diagnosis. In addition, she was a finalist nominee for Best Supporting Female at the Independent Spirit Award. Lewis later played a supporting role as the lover of an unhappy man (Stephen Dorff) terrorizing a family in the thriller Cold Creek Manor (2003). She appeared in the HIM music video for "Buried Alive By Love" in 2003 and was a supporting actress in the comedy Old School. Lewis filed for divorce from his wife Berra after only three years of marriage in April 2003. Lewis called the divorce "amicable" and later added, "Steve will be the first to admit to being a workaholic." You need to be able to work with a team. And if you're like, "This is too much." "I only have enough steam to concentrate on my own stuff," says the author.

Lewis began his musical career in 2003, forming Juliette and the Licks, with former Hole drummer Patty Schemel. In late 2004, Fiddler Records released their debut EP,...Like a Bolt of Lightning. She has also appeared on three tracks by experimental music company The Prosecu, Never Outgunned (also released in 2004). Lewis appeared in Starsky & Hutch as Reese Feldman's girlfriend and appeared in the French futuristic Western film Blueberry opposite Vincent Cassel in the same year. She appeared in the Johnny Knoxville-led comedy Daltry Calhoun (2005), as the wife of a Tennessee entrepreneur, and in the film Aurora Borealis (also 2005), playing the live-in assistant of an elderly couple (played by Donald Sutherland and Louise Fletcher). Juliette and the Licks' debut studio album, You're Speaking My Language, The band toured around the world in support of the album, receiving a glowing concert review from The Guardian's David Peschek, who wrote that Lewis is "exactly the kind of ubiquitous presence that boringly boy-saturated rock needs." The Licks are a band, not just the actor and some flunkies; they are simply a band."

Lewis appeared in the 2006-released The Darwin Awards, an independent comedy starring Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes, was followed by Catch and Release, a romantic comedy that premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October 2006. Juliette and the Licks' second studio album, Four on the Floor, which featured drumming by Dave Grohl, was released in 2007. Lewis appeared in Blender magazine in 2006 as one of the country's best women of rock music list. Lewis appeared in Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV in 2008, as the host of "Juliette," the host of fictional radio station "Radio Broker" and one of her own songs "Inside The Cage (David Gilmour Girls Remix)" in the series. Lewis appeared in Drew Barrymore's debut Whip It! (2009), about a female roller derby performer, and I also did voice work for the animated science fiction film Metropia (also 2009), directed by Tarik Saleh. Lewis' first solo studio album, Terra Incognita, was released by The End Records in the same year.

Lewis appeared in a number of films in 2010, first appearing in Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut Sympathy for Delicious about a stumbling disc jockey, and then in the comedy The Switch (2010) in which she appeared as the friend of a woman trying to conceive a child by artificial insemination (played by Jennifer Aniston). In the biographical crime film Conviction, starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell, she also appeared as a murder witness. Lewis was a "scene stealer" in the film, and she later received the Boston Society of Film Critics Award Best Supporting Actress, despite the fact that she was only in a small part of the film. Lewis was also cast in Todd Phillips' Black comedy Due Date, reprising her role as Heidi in Old School (2003).

Lewis' first film in 2011 was the independent drama Hick, in which she appeared as the alcoholic mother of a young girl (Chloe Moretz) in 1980s Nebraska. She was later involved in Foreverland, a Canadian drama. Tammy, assistant to lead character Mitch McDeere, was on NBC after following this with the thriller Open Road with Camilla Belle and a starring role in the short-lived series The Firm on NBC. Lewis was a central figure in the film August: Osage County (2013), playing many sisters (opposite Julia Roberts and Julianne Nicholson) who reunite with their dysfunctional mother (Meryl Styep) after their father dies suicide after their father's father commits suicide. August: Tracy Letts' play of the same name, Osage County, was a box-office hit, grossing $37 million in the United States.

Lewis was also involved in musical projects in 2013, supporting vocals on Joseph Arthur's "Saint of Impossible Causes" track, The Ballad of Boogie Christ. She appeared in "City of Angels"'s music video by Thirty Seconds to Mars.

Lewis starred in Hellion, as well as Kelly & Cal, in which Lewis played a former punk-turned-suburban housewife in 2014, as a lead actor opposite Aaron Paul. Lewis followed in a lead role as a music director in Jem and the Holograms (2015), a film version of the 1980s animated film Jem. Both analysts and followers of the television show generally dismissive of the film as a box-office bomb, with mainly critical feedback. Lewis began his career as a lead detective on ABC's crime drama Secrets and Lies, which aired two seasons. In addition, she appeared in the first season of the science fiction mystery series Wayward Pines (2015), co-starring Matt Dillon. Lewis also contributed vocals to Karma Fields & Morten's album "Stick Up," which was released on Monstercat in November of this year. Lewis appeared in the science thriller Nerve (2016), starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, about an online video game.

Lewis released Future Deep, her first solo album, in November 2016, marking her first musical project in seven years. "An eclectic group of songs tinged with the deepest blues, contagious 60s garage rock, and dance funk anthems," she described the EP as "an eclectic collection of songs tinged with the darkest blues, confederate 60s garage rock, and dance funk anthems." Lewis appeared on season two of the comedy series Graves (2017) and then appeared as a reiki healer on the British show Camping (2018), co-starring Jennifer Garner, David Tennant, and Ione Skye. Lewis is "underutilized, as usual," Judy Berman of Time magazine wrote about the series.

Lewis also appeared in Back Roads, an independent drama film about a young man trapped by circumstance in rural Pennsylvania after his mother (played by Lewis) murders his father. She was also cast in Sam Taylor-Johnson's A Million Little Pieces, which was based on James Frey's book of the same name. Lewis appeared in late 2018 in The Conners, a spin-off of Roseanne, playing Blue, the ex-husband of Darlene Conner's ex-husband David Healy. Lewis appeared in Tate Taylor's psychological thriller Ma (2019), as the mother of many teenagers who grow close to a homeless woman (Octavia Spencer) in their neighborhood. Ma was a box-office hit, grossing over $60 million around the world, and was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Thriller Film. Lewis appeared on Hulu's biographical crime film The Act, chronicling Gypsy Rose Blanchard's life and her mother's murder, which premiered in March 2019.

Lewis reunited with Tate Taylor for his forthcoming film, Breaking News in Yuba County, starring Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, and Regina Hall, which was shot in the summer of 2019. Lewis appeared in the Showtime thriller series Yellowjackets in 2022.

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