Juliette Lewis Biography
Summary
"Juliette L. Lewis" (born June 21, 1973) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and musician.
Biography
Early life
Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father is actor Geoffrey Lewis and her mother, Glenis Batley (née Duggan), is a graphic designer; her parents divorced when she was two years old. She has a brother, Lightfield, and a sister, Dierdre. Her uncle is the late composer, Peter Tod Lewis. She wanted to act since she was six years old, and got her start in TV at the age of twelve.
Career
Lewis has appeared in over forty films and made-for-TV movies. She has also appeared in a GAP commercial which she was dancing with Daft Punk to the tune of the song 'Digital Love.' She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for "Cape Fear". She received an Emmy nomination for her performance in "My Louisiana Sky" in 2001.
Lewis has also launched a career as a solo singer and musician, leading a group called Juliette and the Licks which has released a number of recordings. She is working with rock songwriter Linda Perry, among others. Lewis has also appeared on three tracks by Electronic Music group The Prodigy's 2004 CD "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned" ('Spitfire,' 'Get Up Get Off,' and 'Hot Ride'). She is in the HIM video for 'Buried Alive By Love'. In 2006 Blender Magazine included her in their hottest women of rock music list while saying, 'She delivered sonically varnished melodic punk replete with purring vocals and lyrics that bash porn, pharmaceutical companies and rotten lovers (in no particular order)'.
Personal life
Lewis dated actor Brad Pitt for several years and co-starred with him in the movies "Kalifornia" and "Too Young to Die?". She also dated former nanny of musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Michael Dewitt. She married professional skateboarder Steve Berra in 1999, but is now divorced. She is a member of the Church of Scientology.
Lewis' sister, Brandy, is married to "My Name Is Earl" star Ethan Suplee. Lewis guest-starred on "My Name Is Earl" in 2006.
Filmography
1987 - "I Married Dora" (TV series)
1987 - "Home Fires" (TV)
1988 - "My Stepmother Is an Alien"
1989 - "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"
1989 - "Meet the Hollowheads"
1989 - "The Runnin' Kind"
1990 - "A Family for Joe" (TV series)
1990 - "Too Young to Die?" (1990)
1991 - "Cape Fear"
1991 - "Crooked Hearts"
1992 - "That Night"
1992 - "Husbands and Wives"
1993 - "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"
1993 - "Romeo Is Bleeding"
1993 - "Kalifornia"
1994 - "Mixed Nuts"
1994 - "Natural Born Killers"
1995 - "Strange Days"
1995 - "The Basketball Diaries"
1996 - "The Evening Star"
1996 - "From Dusk Till Dawn"
1996 - "The Audition"
1998 - "Some Girl"
1999 - "The Other Sister" - Carla Tate
1999 - "The 4th floor
2000 - "Room to Rent"
2000 - "The Way of the Gun"
2001 - "Picture Claire"
2001 - "My Louisiana Sky" (TV)
2001 - "Gaudi Afternoon"
2002 - "Enough"
2002 - "Armitage: Dual Matrix" (V)
2002 - "Hysterical Blindness" (TV)
2003 - "Cold Creek Manor"
2003 - "Free for All" (TV series)
2003 - "Old School"
2004 - "Blueberry"
2004 - "Starsky & Hutch"
2004 - "Chasing Freedom" (TV)
2005 - "Daltry Calhoun"
2005 - "The Darwin Awards"
2005 - "Lightfield's Home Videos"
2005 - "Aurora Borealis"
2005 - "Grilled"
2006 - "My Name Is Earl" 'The Bounty Hunter' episode
2007 - "Catch and Release"
External links
(Juliette Lewis band (fansite))
("Juliette Lewis, a Scientology Defender" Softpedia, July 25, 2005)
(2006 Interview with Juliette Lewis on Theatre.com)
(Juliette And The Licks at Iceland Airwaves)
Credit
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article about Juliette Lewis.
