Julia Stiles

 Julia O'Hara Stiles, born March 28th, 1981[1] is an American actress. Born and raised in New York City, Stiles started acting at the age of 11 and was part of the New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. [2] Her film debut was a small role in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) which was followed by a lead role in Wicked (1998) for which she received the Karlovy Vary Film Festival Award for the best actress. She rose to prominence with leading roles in teen films such as 10 Things I hate about You (1999), Down to You (2000), and Save the Last Dance (2001). She has been awarded numerous awards , including the NBR Award. A CFCA Award. A Gold Derby Award. Two MTV Movie Awards. Satellite Award. Gotham Award. Golden Globe Award. Emmy nominations. In 2006, she was in the character of Nicky Parsons in The Business of Strangers. Other notable credits in films include Hamlet, State and Main (both 2000), O (2001), A Guy Thing (2002), Carolina (2003), The Prince & Me (2004), Edmond, A Little Trip to Heaven (both 2005), The Cry of the Owl (2009), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Out of the Dark (2014), Blackway (2015) 11:55 (2016), Hustlers (2019) as well as The God Committee (2021).Outside of film, Stiles played Lumen Pierce in the fifth season of Dexter (2010), earning nominations for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress. From 2012-14 she appeared as the character of the title in the web-based series Blue and Blue, which in which she was awarded two IAWTV Awards for Best Actress. From 2017-2020 she starred as Georgina Ryland in the Sky Atlantic series Riviera. She is currently a star in The Lake, an Amazon series (2022-2022).