Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981) is an American stage and screen actress. After beginning her theater career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet; her film career has included both commercial and critical successes, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to dark art house pictures such as The Business of Strangers (2001). When Stiles is not acting, she actively supports a variety of progressive causes.

Early life

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Stiles was born in New York City to John O'Hara, an Irish American teacher and businessman, and Judith Stiles, a potter of English and Italian ancestry. She has two younger siblings - Jane and Johnny. Stiles was raised in SoHo by liberal, lapsed Catholic parents. She started acting at age eleven, performing with New York's La MaMa Theatre Company and securing work by submitting photographs of herself in costume to the company and asking that she be kept in mind for juvenile roles.JulaStile.net - Theatre

Career

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Television career

Stiles began her acting career in television roles. After two appearances as the computer punk "Erica" on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She has been seen in two made-for-TV movies: in Before Women Had Wings (1997) on CBS, she played opposite Ellen Burstyn and Oprah Winfrey in an adaptation of the novel by Connie May Fowler; and she played a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant and runs away from her unforgiving father (Bill Smitrovich) in NBC's miniseries The '60's (1999), a film Caryn James of The New York Times dismissed as "conspicuously idiotic." Stiles was the public face of the film, with NBC using her face, painted with a peace sign and the American flag, both in its advertising and on the cover of the soundtrack album.

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Watching Down to You on TV. Do you remember when Freddie Prince Jr was in every romantic comedy? Also I have a thing for Julia Stiles.
ParaParaKing (Lasse Christiansen) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:04:20 -0000
Watching Down to You on TV. Do you remember when Freddie Prince Jr was in every romantic comedy? Also I have a thing for Julia Stiles.
Watch 10 Things I Hate about you, followed by Save the Last Dance. I'm on a Julia Stiles trip.
sodown (Michelle Fernandez) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:27:49 -0000
Watch 10 Things I Hate about you, followed by Save the Last Dance. I'm on a Julia Stiles trip.
I LOVE JULIA STILES
StaceyVonDe (Stacey Von `De) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:40:59 -0000
I LOVE JULIA STILES
RT @ForeverNATi: Julia Stiles looks like she could be related to Ashton Kutcher. They both have prehistoric facial features
INDI_vidual (Indi V.) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:39:39 -0000
RT @ForeverNATi: Julia Stiles looks like she could be related to Ashton Kutcher. They both have prehistoric facial features
I love julia stiles awkward body movements in this movie
Danny_Deee (Danielle D) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:30:51 -0000
I love julia stiles awkward body movements in this movie
Lord.Now watching The Prince & Me 2,and they've recast nearly everyone from the first movie!Ben Miller was brilliant and so was Julia Stiles
jmscheepers (Jojanneke Scheepers) Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:51:58 -0000
Lord.Now watching The Prince & Me 2,and they've recast nearly everyone from the first movie!Ben Miller was brilliant and so was Julia Stiles

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