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Julia Stiles

ジュリア・スタイルズ　/　じゅりあ・すたいるず

American television actor

March 28, 1981 (age 45)　・　New York City, New York, United States

New York
television actor
film actor
stage actor

My Take

Julia Stiles has always read to me as the thinking person's movie star. She started in experimental theater at eleven, won a festival acting prize as a teenager, and then, at the height of her fame, went off to Columbia University anyway. That choice tells you everything: craft and curiosity over celebrity. I admire that she never chased tabloid attention, drifting instead between stage, film, and television, and lately stepping behind the camera as a director. There's a cool intelligence in her screen presence that Hollywood never quite knew how to package, which is precisely why it has aged so well.

Overview

Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981) is an American actress and director. Stiles began acting at the age of 11 as part of New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. Her film debut was a small role at age 15 in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), followed by a lead role in Wicked (1998) for which she received the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Julia Stiles
Name (Japanese): ジュリア・スタイルズ
Reading: じゅりあ・すたいるず
Born: March 28, 1981 (age 45)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Rooster
Origin: New York City, New York, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: 2 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: television actor / film actor / stage actor / model / film director

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Columbia University

Awards & achievements

John Jay Award

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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