Julia Stiles Biography

Biography

Oprah Winfrey's production entitled "Before Women Had Wings" which dealt with child abuse. This led her to earn her first leading role in "Wicked"(1998), playing as an evil teenage girl named Ellie Christianson followed by a small role in M. Night Shyamalan's "Wide Awake." Through "Wicked," Julia got her first award for the best actress in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1998). In spite of the fact that the film was also acclaimed at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, it went directly to home video without ever being released commercially in U.S. Nevertheless, Julia kept going on, making her another breakthrough in the TV miniseries " The 60's" in which she had a prominent part as a teenage girl who finds herself caught up in the social upheaval of the time.

Julia then reached a great success when she was in the cast with Heath Ledger in Gil Junger's "Ten Things I Hate About You" (1999) which was adapted from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew." She was granted two more awards based on her role there in the following year: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards for The Most Promising Actress and MTV Movie Awards for Breakthrough Female Performance. ...

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This triumph was later on followed by her enrollment at Columbia University to take English major. Studying in university did not prevent Julia to continue her career as an actress, proven by her appearances in some movies, such as "Down to You" (2000), "State and Main" (2000), two more adaptations of Shakespeare's plays: "Hamlet"(2000) and "O" (2001), and the successful "Save the Last Dance" (2001). The last one received great responses, leaped to the top position of box-office movies chart for three weeks with over 27 million dollars income. All her efforts in practicing ballet and dancing until her toes bled were proven worthy. Afterwards, "Save the Last Dance" has led Julia to achieve two MTV Movie Awards, plus two Teen Choice Awards, in 2001.

She took one step higher, playing her first mature role in Patrick Stettner's independent movie "The Business of Strangers"(2001). Although this particular film was reviewed negatively, the critics were impressed by Julia, thus gave her praise and admiration. During the period of 2002-2004, she kept being seen in some notable movies, among others "The Bourne Identity" (2002) with Matt Damon, (2003), "A Guy Thing"(2003), "Mona Lisa Smile" (2003) with Julia Roberts, "The Prince & Me" ...