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When it came time to find a young actress to assume the role of the twins (originated by Hayley Mills) for the 1998 remake of “The Parent Trap”, an exhaustive casting search occurred throughout the USA, Canada and even in London. Perhaps because the behind-the-scenes figures opted to avoid the obvious and cast the Olsen twins, thousands of girls were considered. After three callbacks and a screen test with stars Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, auburn-haired, freckle-faced Long Islander Lindsay Lohan won the role. Although she was just eleven when she was cast, she had an impressive resume.

The oldest child of four born to former actors, Lohan became a child model at age three, purportedly the first red-haired child signed by the Ford Modeling Agency. TV commercials for various products followed, including a Jell-O spot with pitchman Bill Cosby. Lohan also had recurring roles on two daytime dramas (CBS’ “Guiding Light” and NBC’s “Another World”) before she landed the first movie role for which she ever auditioned. Playing separated at birth twins, one American and one British, for “The Parent Trap” remake, she turned in a delightful performance. Lohan next filmed the telepic “Life-Size” (2000)–originally a “Wonderful World of Disney” production later released on home video–opposite Tyra Banks as a Barbie-style doll come to life, part of Lohan’s three-picture deal with Disney. In 2000, Lohany was cast Bette Midler’s teen daughteer on the short-lived CBS sitcom “Bette” (2000). After shooting the pilot episode, the show’s producers decided it would be easier on the L.A.-based crew if filming moved to California, and Lindsay gave up the role to stay in New York, and the role was recast although the series was canceled shortly thereafter.

Lohan next played Lexy Gold in Disney Channel telepic “Get a Clue” (2002). The young actress also pursued a musical career when Emilio Estefan, Jr., took her under his professional wing in 2002. with a five-album production deal and the promise of an aggressive effort to sell her popular style “with a rock edge” to a major record label. She also has worked as a model for Abercrombie & Fitch Kids (A&F Kids) and Calvin Klein Kids.

Lohan continued her relationship with the Mouse Factory, signing on to play Anna Coleman in the theatrical remake of the body-swapping comedy “Freaky Friday” (2003) opposite Jamie Lee Curtis as the mother-and-daughter team who wake up one day in each other’s bodies. The film was a surprise summer, generating over $100 million at the box office, raising Lohan’s profile even further and landing her in a public fued with fellow teen queen Hilary Duff (the two briefly shared a boyfriend: singer Aaron Carter). Like Duff, she also incorporated her singing career into his acting gig, with the “Freaky Friday” soundtrack including her debut single, “Ultimate.” Lohan returned to the public eye carrying the girl-minded comedy “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen” (2004) on her solo shoulders. Lohan played Lola, an egocentric teen who is uprooted from the home town that seemingly revolves around her and finds herself competing for attention in Manhattan, with grander and grander schemes. The actress provided vocals on four songs from the film’s soundtrack: “Drama Queen (That Girl),” “What Are You Waiting For,” “A Day in the Life” and a medley that incorporates the original song “Don’t Move On” with her take on Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City” and David Bowie’s “Changes.”

Next up was a slightly edgier role, taking on the lead in “Mean Girls” (2004), a funny if familiar comedy penned by Tina Fey exploring in-fighting amongst a clique of catty high school girls. The film proved to be a box office success and firmly cemented Lohan’s star power, even beyond her teen and ‘tween core audience. Under the wing of new mentor Tommy Mottola, the famed head of Sony Music, Lohan also released her first full album, Speak, which swifty achieved platinum status, featuring the single “Rumors,” in which she decried the gossipy buzz that had suddenly surrounded her every move.

Indeed, the young actress’ rapidly maturing body and youthful sex appeal combined with a reputation for enjoying the Hollywood fast lane suddenly made her regular fodder for gossip magazines, which dutifully followed her denials about having received breast implants, her brief relationship with TV actor Wilmer Valderrama, her alleged hard-partying ways, an agressive paparazzi pursuit that resulted in a fender bender, and, after her figure had turned voluptuous and her titian hair became her trademark, her eyebrow-raising rapid weight loss (which the actress attributed to a healthier lifestyle) and new look as a blonde. The actress also had to deal with press reports regarding her estranged father Michael Lohan, whose alleged substance abuse and short temper (he reportedly threatened the lives of his ex-wife and children) resulted in several brushes with the law, including a legal restraining order preventing him from contact with his family and jail time for a litany of legal offenses including assaulting his brother-in-law at his son’s first communion party, violating terms of his restraining order and a 2005 drunk driving crash in which his vehicle struck a utility pole in Long Island and caught fire. Further estranging his famous daughter, he also sought to claim a percentage of his offspring’s earnings.

Despite all the lurid press, Lohan’s popularity continued unabated and Disney cast her in further family fare, this time the remake of the studio’s famous “Love Bug” franchise, “Herbie: Fully Loaded” (2005) as a young girl who inherits the legendary Volkswagen Beetle and takes to the NASCAR race circuit. The Mouse House did have some concerns about the then-voluptuous Lohan’s image for its young audiences in some scenes, and spent considerable sums to digitally decreade her burgeouning bust size when it was deemed distracting. Later in 2005 she was in her second auto accident of the year, again blaming pursuing paparazzi. her private life made headlines again when she confessed to Vanity Fair that she had indeed experienced an eating disorder, bulemia, that accounted for her significant weight loss, and was shocked back to healthy ways after she was confronted by “Saturday Night Live’s” Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey while hosting the show in 2005. She also admitted to experimenting with drugs. The cover story was released just as Lohan was hospitalized for a reported asthma attack in Miami after ringing in 2006 there. Within a week, Lohan denied having made the statements to the magazine, saying her words were “misconstrued and misconstructed” - The magazine stood by the story.

She joined the cast of Emilio Estevez’s independent film “Bobby” (lensed 2005), about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and was set to costar in “Chapter 27″ (lensed 2006), an indie film about a woman who befriends Mark David Chapman during the weekend that he kills John Lennon

• Born:
  on 07/02/1986 in Long Island, New York
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Model

Family

• Brother: Dakota Lohan. born on June 16, 1996
• Brother: Michael Lohan. born c. 1988
• Father: Michael Lohan. works in wholesale food business; appeared on the daytime drama “As the World Turns”
• Mother: Dina Lohan. was a Rockette
• Sister: Aliana Lohan. born c. 1994

Significant Others

• Companion: Brett Ratner. rumored to have had a brief fling in 2006
• Companion: James Burke.
• Companion: Wilmer Valderrama. began dating May 2004; split November 2004

Milestones

• 1989 At age three, signed as a Ford model; reportedly the first redheaded child to be put under contract (date approximate)
• 1996 Had recurring role of Alli Fowler on the NBC daytime drama “Another World”
• 1998 Feature film debut in the dual role of twins in the remake of “The Parent Trap”
• 2000 Played Bette Midler’s daughter in the pilot for the CBS fall sitcom “Bette”; replaced when production shifted from NYC to L.A.
• 2000 Starred in the ABC Disney movie “Life-Size”
• 2003 Co-starred as the daughter in the family feature “Freaky Friday”; directed by Mark S. Waters
• 2004 Guest-starred opposite current boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama on FOX’s “That ’70s Show”
• 2004 Hosted the MTV Movie Awards
• 2004 Re-teamed with director Mark S. Waters for the comedy “Mean Girls,” penned by SNL’s Tina Fey
• 2004 Released debut album, “Speak”
• 2004 Signed a long-term, multi-album contract with Tommy Mottola’s Casablanca Records
• 2005 Cast as Maggie Peyton, owner of Number 53–the free wheelin’ Volkswagen bug with a mind of its own in Disney’s “Herbie: Fully Loaded”
• 2006 Played Meryl Streep’s daughter in Robert Altman’s ensemble feature “A Prairie Home Companion,” based on Garrison Keilor’s radio program
• 2006 Played a sexy Manhattanite who has amazing luck wherever she goes in the comedy, “Just My Luck”
• Appeared on the CBS daytime drama “Guiding Light”
• Appeared with her mother in the TV series “Healthy Kids” (The Family Channel)
• Began appearing in TV commercials for The Gap, Jell-O, Pizza Hut and others
• Will co-star with Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda in “Georgia Rule”

Blonde, with perfect California girl cuteness and an attractive air of self-possession, actress Heather Locklear made an indelible mark on television, her unforgettable roles in the Aaron Spelling dramas “Dynasty” (ABC) and “Melrose Place” (Fox) among the most notable entries in a prolific decades-spanning career. Perky, but with an undercurrent of peremptoriness, Locklear hit the big time soon after she left her freshman studies at UCLA to pursue an acting career. Before long, the neophyte had secured guest spots on such series as “CHiPs” (NBC) and “Eight Is Enough” (ABC) and supporting roles in the unremarkable TV-movies “Twirl” (NBC) and “Return of the Beverly Hillbillies” (CBS). In late 1981, Locklear joined the cast of the primetime soap “Dynasty”, playing Sammy Jo Dean, the seemingly innocent niece of Krystle Carrington, in town for a brief visit. The visit turned into eight seasons on the series, and Sammy Jo proved a force to reckon with, allowing Locklear to treat audiences to some of the more enjoyable scenes of two-faced opportunism in primetime television.

While playing this deliciously deceitful manipulator on ABC’s “Dynasty”, Locklear demonstrated her adaptability and established her place as a veritable TV fixture with a concurrent role on the network’s police drama “T.J. Hooker” (ABC 1982-1985, CBS 1985-1986). The actress co-starred alongside William Shatner, and brought fresh-faced enthusiasm and girl-next-door sexiness to the role of Officer Stacy Sheridan for five seasons. These two ABC roles offered Locklear unparalleled visibility while showcasing her versatility, and television audiences developed a fondness for and familiarity with the actress that would make her continually marketable, helping to cut down on the long-term career lulls that can follow series work. By all accounts and appearances the archetypal nice girl, Locklear married bad boy rocker Tommy Lee in 1985, a move that embodied the ideals of that decade’s excess and cast just enough mystery on the actress to make her all the more interesting and attractive to an audience.

Following the demise of “Dynasty”, Locklear found herself in the unique and not altogether pleasant position of being a somewhat legendary veteran of television, while still roundly considered a young ingénue. Haunted by the specter of “Dynasty” and its melodramatic reputation, the actress managed to land a spate of TV-movie work, including “Rock ‘n’ Roll Mom” (1988) and “Rich Men, Single Women” (1990), as well as a starring role in the short-lived sitcom “Going Places” (1990-1991), all on ABC. Still, her most memorable credit from this time period was her reprise of Sammy Jo in the long-awaited two-parter “Dynasty: The Reunion” (1991). Work in unremarkable TV-movies followed, before Locklear staged a most triumphant comeback, joining the cast of Fox’s “Melrose Place” from 1993 to 1999. Her character Amanda Woodward was slightly older and infinitely wiser than the assembled group of twenty-somethings populating the series, and injected some much needed life in to the flailing program. The tart-tongued and unstoppable Amanda didn’t shy away from destruction, and with skirts as short as her temper, managed to seduce nearly every man on the show, while engrossing a loyal audience. Locklear’s calculating and uncompromising antics as Amanda jazzed up the series, while her work on the program reestablished her reputation and energized her career. In 1995, she starred in the ABC miniseries “Texas Justice” and skillfully handled the challenging role of a woman suffering with multiple personality disorder in the following year’s “Shattered Mind” (NBC). By now she had not only traded in her hard partying Motley Crüe drummer husband (they divorced in 1992) for the more stable Richie Sambora (Bon Jovi guitarist and former Cher flame), but she had also begun to emerge in interviews and appearances as an intelligent and genuine person with an evolved self-mocking sense of humor.

While she was always a popular actress, public opinion and critical acclaim had never previously reached the heights it scaled in the late 90s, and when “Melrose Place” bid adieu at season’s end in 1999, it wasn’t long before Locklear was cast in the ensemble of the New York-set political sitcom “Spin City” (ABC), playing Caitlin Moore, the driven campaign manager spearheading the mayor’s bid for the US Senate. Again part of a quirky ensemble, but this time working in comedy, the actress made the most of her talents and quickly insinuated herself into viewers’ good graces.

While her work on television has certainly been prolific and has adeptly embraced both the sublime and the ridiculous, Locklear has had less luck on the big screen, following up a brief supporting role in 1984’s “Firestarter” with a most inauspicious lead acting debut in the sci-fi clunker “Return of the Swamp Thing” (1989). Not surprisingly, feature roles were few and far between for the actress following that debacle, and her next film endeavor, the thriller “Illusions” paired her with former “Dynasty” co-star Emma Samms and bypassed theaters in 1992 for direct-to-video release. The following year she had a memorable turn with a cameo playing herself in the comedy sequel “Wayne’s World 2″. A supporting role in “The First Wives Club” (1996) ended up a silent uncredited cameo after editing. Locklear fared slightly better with the screen time afforded her in the adventure comedy “Money Talks” (1997).

In 1999, Locklear joined the cast of “Spin City”, portraying Communications Director Caitlin Moore. When Michael J. Fox retired from the sitcom, Locklear continued her wise-cracking innuendos but focusing them on Fox’s replacement Charlie Sheen. In 2002, Locklear decided to end her run with the sitcom that earned her two Golden Globe Nominations, Before making her way back to the big screen, she guest starred in three episodes of the NBC hit comedy “Scrubs” as a gorgeous drug sales rep who raises Dr. Cox’s temperature, after which it was off to New York where she co-starred in the feature film dramedy “Uptown Girls” (2003), directed by Boaz Yakin, in which she played precocious Dakota Fanning’s upwardly mobile but neglectful mother; Locklear played the lusty casino entertainer Dusty Tails in the live-action/animated hybrid “Looney Tunes: Back In Action” (2003) before returning to television on the one-hour drama “LAX” (NBC, 2004-2005) as runway chief Harley Random.

After “LAX” aired its last episode in April 2005, Locklear was next seen in the Hilary Duff romantic comedy vehicle, “The Perfect Man” (2005), playing her hapless mom who moves the family to a different city after breaking up with her latest boyfriend while on the search for the perfect guy. Duff tries to play matchmaker by creating an imaginary secret admirer, but the ruse, of course, becomes increasingly difficult to mask. The movie was rocked by a spate of bad reviews, leaving one critic on the verge of vomiting from its sugary sweetness.

• Also Credited As:
  Heather D. Locklear
• Born:
  on 09/25/1961 in Los Angeles, California
• Job Titles:
  Actor

Family

• Daughter: Ava Elizabeth Sambora. born on October 4, 1997
• Father: Bill Locklear. works in administration at UCLA
• Mother: Diane Locklear. Disney production executive
• Sister: Colleen M Locklear. born in January 1960
• Sister: Lori D Locklear. born in 1956

Significant Others

• Companion: David Spade. rumored to be dating as of April 2006
• Companion: Scott Baio. dated in the 1970s
• Husband: Richie Sambora. born on July 11, 1959; plays guitar for the rock band Bon Jovi; married in Paris on December 17, 1994
• Husband: Tommy Lee. married in 1985; divorced in 1992; later married and was divorced from actress Pamela Anderson
• Husband: Tommy Lee. married in 1985; divorced in 1992; later married and was divorced from actress Pamela Anderson
• Companion: Scott Baio. dated in the 1970s

Education

• University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, psychology

Milestones

• 1980 Had a one line speaking role on an episode of “CHiPs” (NBC)
• 1981 Starred in the ABC primetime soap “Dynasty” as Sammi Jo Dean Carrington
• 1981 Gave supporting performances in the TV-movies “Twirl” (NBC) and “Return of the Beverly Hillbillies” (CBS)
• 1984 Co-starred in the TV-movie “City Killer” (NBC)
• 1984 Feature film debut with a supporting role in “Firestarter”
• 1988 Appeared in the Disney Sunday Movie “Rock ‘n’ Roll Mom” (ABC)
• 1989 Had female lead in the sci-fi sequel “Return of the Swamp Thing”
• 1990 Starred in the ABC TV-movies “Jury Duty: The Comedy” and “Rich Men, Single Women”
• 1991 Reprised the role of Sammy Jo Carrington in the two part “Dynasty: The Reunion” (ABC)
• 1992 Starred alongside former “Dynasty” co-star Emma Samms in the direct-to-video release “Illusions”
• 1992 Starred in the TV-movies “Highway Heartbreaker” (CBS) and “Body Language” (USA Network)
• 1993 Had a cameo as herself in the popular sequel “Wayne’s World 2″
• 1995 Starred in the ABC miniseries “Texas Justice”
• 1996 Had an uncredited silent cameo in the comedy “The First Wives Club”
• 1996 Took on the challenging role of a woman with multiple personality disorder in the NBC TV-movie “Shattered Mind”
• 1997 Co-starred as Charlie Sheen’s finace in the Sheen/Chris Tucker action-comedy buddy vehicle “Money Talks”, directed by Brett Ratner
• 1997 Starred with Stephen Rea in the HBO movie “Double Tap”
• 1999 Joined the cast of the ABC sitcom “Spin City” as Caitlin Moore, the driven campaign manager for the mayor’s 2000 US Senate race
• 2002 Co-starred in the big screen comedy “Molly Gunn”
• 2002 Decided to end her run with the ABC sitcom “Spin City”
• 2003 Played the mother to Dakota Fanning’s character in “Uptown Girls”
• 2004 Starred in the short-lived airport drama “LAX” (NBC)
• 2005 Played Hilary Duff’s mother in “The Perfect Man,” which centers on a teenager whose quest is to find the perfect partner for her single mom
• Concurrent with her stint on “Dynasty”, played Officer Stacy Sheridan on the ABC crime drama series “T.J. Hooker”
• Had an early TV credit, guest starring on “Eight Is Enough” (ABC)
• Played role of Amanda Woodward on Fox’s primetime soap “Melrose Place”, additionally taking co-producer duties for the series final season
• Starred in the ABC sitcom, “Going Places”

Blake was born into a showbiz family in Tarzana, California. Her mother is a talent manager and her father is actor-director Ernie Lively, who also appears in Sisterhood as Bridget’s father. Blake’s four siblings are all actors, too. At the age of ten Blake played the Tooth Fairy in Sandman, a film directed by her father. After completing filming on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Blake returned to high school for her senior year. A true all-American teenager, she stays busy juggling duties as class president and cheerleader as well as performing with her national championship show choir. She is graduating this year– Class of 2005!

Having previously appeared in supporting roles in several films and as a regular on the CBS sitcom “Pearl” (1996-97), actress Lucy Liu skyrocketed to popularity in 1998 as the malicious Ling Woo on “Ally McBeal” (Fox, 1997-2002). David E Kelley, who originally auditioned her for the role of Nelle Porter (later played by Portia de Rossi), wrote the popular character for Liu, whose fiery performance in her first episode soon eventually led to a regular role. During her run on the series, Liu’s scene-stealing portrayal earned many fans and a share of the 1998 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Before making her name on “Ally McBeal,” Liu could be seen frequently in guest appearances on television, including a 1991 stint as a waitress on “Beverly Hills, 90210″ (Fox). One of her more memorable turns came with a recurring part in 1995 as a woman whose young son was suffering from complications of AIDS on NBC’s medical drama “ER”. Additionally, Liu portrayed the self-hating girlfriend of Luke Perry’s Los Angeles police officer in “Riot”, a 1997 Showtime movie dramatizing different stories in 1992’s racially charged Los Angeles riots.

Liu’s up and coming film career began with a bit part in the 1996 hit “Jerry Maguire”. The following year, she played an exotic dancer in the Harvey Keitel actioner “City of Industry”. (The dedicated actress prepared for this role by performing for over a month in a Los Angeles strip club.) Had Liu not already come to the public’s attention on “Ally McBeal,” 1999’s “Payback” may have proven to be her breakthrough role. She starred as Pearl, a leather-clad dominatrix who proved so likable that the initial script was rewritten to afford her more screen time. That same year, Liu could be seen in a featured role in “Molly”, starring Elisabeth Shue as an autistic woman who becomes a genius and in “Play It to the Bone.” The following year, Liu portrayed a kidnapped Chinese princess in “Shanghai Noon” and displayed her martial arts expertise as one of “Charlie’s Angels.” The latter film provided a major boost to Liu’s public image, placing her in an on-screen pantheon of A-listers Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz. As famously as she got on with her female co-stars, Liu did have to contend with numerous media reports of serious friction between herself and comedian Bill Murray, who played Bosley in the film.

Following the phenomenal success of “Charlie’s Angels” in 2000, a wealth of exciting film roles fell into Liu’s lap. In addition to immediately signing up for the glitzy sequel to the hit franchise, Liu starred opposite Antonio Banderas in the little-seen sci-fi thriller “Ecks vs. Sever” in 2002. She also nabbed a part in the much anticipated film version of “Chicago” (2002), turning in a juicy if all-too-brief performance as murderess Kitty Baxter; In 2003, Lui reunited with Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore for the action-packed, eye-candy heavy “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.” The feature, again directed by McG, allowed Liu re-emphasized the ass-kicking style of female bonding the Angels trio–by then very close friends off-screen as well as on–demonstrated in the first film and in their media appearances together. Next, Liu got on board Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited fourth feature “Kill Bill, Vol. 1″ (2003), in a bravura performance as Japanese-Chinese-American O-Ren Ishii, Queen of the Tokyo Underworld and leader of the Crazy 88 Fighters. Liu also enlivened the 2004-2005 first season of the “Friends” spin-off sitcom “Joey” by playing the compulsively clean TV producer Lauren Beck on several episodes.

• Also Credited As:
  Lucy Alexis Liu, Tom Jones
• Born:
  on 12/02/1967 in New York, New York
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Artist, Aerobics instructor, Caterer

Significant Others

• Companion: Will McCormack.
• Companion: Zach Helm.
• Companion: Nicholas Lea. dated in 1997-98

Education

• New York University, New York, New York

Milestones

• 1989 Began acting career after auditioning for a part in a Univeristy of Michigan production of “Alice in Wonderland” during senior year; won the lead role although she had tried out for a supporting role assuming that as an Asian woman, she would never be cast as Alice (date approximate)
• 1991 Had an early television role on Fox’s “Beverly Hills, 90210″ as a waitress at the Peach Pit
• 1995 Gave a memorable and moving performance as a woman whose son is suffering from complications of AIDS in a recurring role on NBC’s “ER”
• 1996 Feature debut in a small part in “Jerry Maguire”
• 1997 Appeared as an exotic dancer in “City of Industry”, a role for which she prepared by performing for over a month in a Los Angeles strip club
• 1997 Played a racist self-loathing girlfriend to Luke Perry’s L.A. cop in a segment of “Riot”, Showtime’s episodic dramatization of 1992’s Los Angeles riots
• 1997 Was featured in the film “Gridlock’d”
• 1999 Appeared in “Molly”, a story of an autistic woman who becomes a genius through experimental treatments, starring Elisabeth Shue
• 1999 Had a featured role as a dominatrix in “Payback”
• 1999 Had featured role in “Play It to the Bone
• 2000 Portrayed Alex, one of “Charlie’s Angels” alongside Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz in the feature based on the 1970s TV series
• 2000 Portrayed a kidnapped Chinese princess in “Shanghai Noon”, starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson
• 2002 Appeared in small but vital role as murderess Kitty Baxter in “Chicago”
• 2002 Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in “Ecks vs. Sever”
• 2003 Played assassin Cottonmouth in Quentin Tarantino’s film “Kill Bill,” which was released in two Volumes “Kill Bill Vol. 1″ in 2003 and “Kill Bill Vol.2″ in 2004
• 2003 Signed to reprise role in “Charlie’s Angels 2: Full Throttle”
• 2004 Guest-starred in two episodes of “Joey” (NBC) as a tough-talking executive producer
• 2005 Portrayed a psychologist in “Domino” starring Keira Knightley as Domino Harvey, a model turned bounty hunter
• 2006 Played the girl next door opposite Josh Hartnett in the thriller, “Lucky Number Slevin”
• Appeared in TV commercials
• Raised in Queens, New York
• Set to star and executive produce in an updated version of “Charlie Chan,” which centers on the granddaughter of the fictional Chinese-American detective (lensed 2005)
• Was a regular on “Pearl” (CBS), playing college student Amy Li alongside Rhea Pearlman
• Was a regular on the popular Fox legal comedy “Ally McBeal” playing Ling Woo; garnered 1999 Emmy nomination; left show early in the 2001-2002 season (after four episodes) to pursue film career

This attractive blonde daughter of playwright Romulus Linney didn’t initially set out to be an actress but by her teens had settled on her chosen profession. After working in summer stock and training at Juilliard, Laura Linney began her big screen career with a small role as a young teacher in “Lorenzo’s Oil” (1992). She made an impression as the secretary sleeping with the president in the Ivan Reitman-directed “Dave” (1993). Linney went on to co-star with Steve Martin in “A Simple Twist of Fate” (1994), modernized spin on “Silas Marner” and then landed her first starring roles as the naive transplant to San Francisco Mary Ann Singleton in the PBS adaptation of “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” (1994) and as a member of an expedition into the jungles of South America in the critically derided but financially successful “Congo” (1995).

Linney’s ascendancy continued when she nabbed the co-starring role as the former lover now courtroom adversary of Richard Gere in “Primal Fear” and was solidified when Clint Eastwood tapped her to portray his daughter in the political thriller “Absolute Power” (1997). In between her film work, the actress squeezed in Broadway appearances in a revival of “Holiday” (in 1995) and co-starred opposite Jane Alexander in “Honour” (in 1998). Linney also reprised her signature role of Mary Ann Singleton in the Showtime sequel “Armistead Maupin’s More Tales of the City” in 1998.

Perhaps her highest profile role to date came when she was tipped to portray Meryl, the wife of Jim Carrey’s Truman Burbank in the satirical “The Truman Show” (1998). Under Peter Weir’s solid direction, Linney essayed the role of an actress playing the wife of a man whose life is broadcast on TV. Her multi-layered performance as the increasingly unhappy Meryl chafing under her duty to be loyal wife and commercial pitchwoman worked in counterpoint to Carrey’s fine work as the questioning Truman.

With the Sundance hit “You Can Count on Me” (2000), Linney proved her capabilities, turning in a richly nuanced turn as a woman coping with a demanding new boss (Matthew Broderick), raising her six-year old son (Rory Culkin) and the return of her prodigal brother (Mark Ruffalo). The actress’ utterly convincing portrayal never struck a false note and she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for her efforts, as well as several awards wins and nominations from key critics organizations. Such mainstream accolades did not induce Linney to sell out, however: A return to Broadway in “Uncle Vanya” opposite Derek Jacobi followed before she undertook the part of a lusty campaign manager in the TNT original “Running Mates” (2000). Keeping her indie credibility high, Linney then segued to early 20th-century Manhattan as the bitchy society matron Bertha Dorset in the exquisite adaptation of “The House of Mirth” (also 2000).

She kicked off 2001 reprising Mary Ann Singleton in “Armistead Maupin’s Further Tales of the City” (Showtime), brought life and humanity to actor-turned-director Rob Morrow’s sensitive Tourette’s Syndrome indie “Maze” (2001) and then co-starred with Gena Rowlands in “Wild Iris” (2002), a Showtime drama about an estranged mother and daughter forced by circumstances to share a home. The latter featured an agonizingly emotional performance that earned Linney an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. She also made an appearance in the HBO biopic “The Laramie Project” (2002), which chronicled events in Laramie, Wyoming, following the tragic hate-killing of gay teen Matthew Shepard. Her more commercial-minded efforts such as 2002’s dreary thriller “The Mothman Prophecies,” in which she played a cop who becomes involved with a man (Richard Gere’s) search for the legendary local monster that may have caused his wife’s death. Although she shared some nice scenes with Gere, Linney’s performance was unable to overcome the murky script. Her strong work in 2003′ “The Life of David Gale,” playing a woman involved with a death penalty opponent who suffers a mysterious end, was similarly overwhelmed by the film’s increasingly ludicrous plot twists and overwrought anti-death penalty message.

Linney reunited with Eastwood when she appeared in the director’s highly praised revenge opus “Mystic River” (2003), playing Sean Penn’s strong-willed second wife, and she was the only American in writer-director Richard Curtis’ large ensemble in the multistory romantic comedy “Love Actually” (2003), playing a woman who finally acts on her long-term crush on a co-coworker. In 2004 Linney scored an Emmy for her recurring guest performance as Dr. Frasier Crane’s professional matchmaker and love interest on the final season of the hit sit-com “Frasier,” while on the big screen she starred opposite Liam Neeson in the role of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey’s wife Clara in writer-director Bill Condon’s praised biopic “Kinsey” (2004). Her performance earned Linney Best Supporting Actress nominations for the SAG Awards, Golden Globes and Academy Awards. The actress’ next turn was as a lawyer who takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest (Tom Wilkinson) who performed an exorcism on a young girl that resulted in her death in fact-based, character-driven thriller “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” (2005). That same year she appeared in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s admired “The Squid and the Whale” as the estranged wife of a failed writer (Jeff Daniels) who achieves literary success herself and engages in a painful back-and-forth with her ex built on their mutal affairs and attempts to raise their young sons.

Linney next shot two films simultaneously: Barry Levinson’s “Man of the Year” (lensed 2005), about a late night talk shot host (Robin Williams) who runs for president as a stunt and actually ends up winning, and “Breach” (lensed), a thriller which tells the story of FBI traitor Robert Hanssen.

• Also Credited As:
  Laura Legett Linney
• Born:
  Laura Legett Linney on 02/05/1964 in New York, New York
• Job Titles:
  Actor

Family

• Father: Romulus Linney. born on September 21, 1930 in Philadelphia; divorced from Linney’s mother in 1965
• Half-sister: Susan Linney. born c. 1975
• Mother: Ann Leggett Perse. born c. 1939; divorced from Linney’s father in 1965; worked at Sloan-Kettering, NYC
• Step-mother: Laura Callahan. served as associate director of investments for the Rockefeller Foundation

Significant Others

• Companion: Eric Stoltz. dating as of 2001
• Husband: David Adkins. born on November 12, 1962; met at Julliard; married in 1995; separated in early 2000
• Companion: Eric Stoltz. dating as of 2001

Education

• The Juilliard School, New York, New York, drama, 1989
• Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Milestones

• — Set to join Gabriel Byrne in “Jindabyne,” an adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story (lensed 2005)
• 1976 Worked as a summer apprentice at New London Barn Playhouse in New Hampshire (date approximate)
• 1990 Off-Broadway and Broadway debut, “Six Degrees of Separation”; was understudy, eventually assumed role in the Broadway production
• 1992 Breakthrough stage role in “Sight Unseen”
• 1992 Feature acting debut, “Lorenzo’s Oil”
• 1993 Had small but memorable role as a secretary having an affair with the president in “Dave”
• 1993 TV acting debut, “Class of ‘61″ (ABC), directed by Gregory Hoblit
• 1994 First TV lead, played Mary Ann Singleton in “Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’” (PBS)
• 1995 First feature starring role, “Congo”
• 1995 Starred opposite Tony Goldwyn in the Broadway revival of Philip Barry’s “Holiday”
• 1996 Reunited with director Gregory Hoblit as the assistant district attorney prosecuting a murder case against her former lover (Richard Gere) in “Primal Fear”
• 1997 Handpicked by Clint Eastwood for co-starring role in “Absolute Power”
• 1998 Appeared as Jim Carrey’s wife in the acclaimed feature “The Truman Show”
• 1998 Reprised role of Mary Ann in the sequel “Armistead Maupin’s ‘More Tales of the City’” (Showtime)
• 1998 Returned to Broadway opposite Robert Foxworth and Jane Alexander in “Honour”
• 1999 Starred in the TV adaptation of A R Gurney’s play “Love Letters” (ABC), directed by Stanley Donen
• 2000 Delivered a scene-stealing turn as society matron Bertha Dorset in “The House of Mirth”
• 2000 Garnered praise for her performance as a single mother coping with her n’er-do-well brother in the Sundance-screened “You Can Count on Me”; garnered a Best Actress Oscar nomination
• 2000 Portrayed the brilliant campaign manager of a politician seeking his party’s presidential nomination in the TNT movie “Running Mates”
• 2000 Returned to the Broadway stage in a revival of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”
• 2001 Again reprised Mary Ann Singleton in “Armistead Maupin’s ‘Further Tales of the City’” (Showtime)
• 2002 Received an Emmy nomination for her role in “Wild Iris”
• 2002 Returned to the NYC stage starring opposite Liam Neeson in “The Crucible”
• 2002 Was featured in the ensemble of “The Laramie Project”, about the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard; premiered at Sundance before airing on HBO
• 2003 Had a supporting role as the wife of Sean Penn’s character in the drama “Mystic River,” directed by Clint Eastwood
• 2003 Played an activist entangled with a man who is convicted of rape and murder in the drama “The Life of David Gale”
• 2004 Cast opposite Liam Neeson, as Alfred Kinsey’s wife in “Kinsey”; received Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress
• 2004 Earned a Tony nomination for her performance in the Broadway play “Sight Unseen”
• 2004 Portrayed a love interest for Kelsey Grammer’s character in the NBC sitcom “Frasier”
• 2005 Co-starred with Jeff Daniels in Noah Baumbach’s “The Squid and the Whale”; earned Independent Spirit Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress
• 2005 Portrayed Erin Bruner, the lawyer who defended Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson), the priest who performed the controversial exorcism that resulted in the death of a young girl in “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” a film based on a true story
• Cast as Mrs. X, the head of a wealthy Manhattan household in “The Nanny Diaries” (lensed 2006)
• Cast in Barry Levinson’s “Man of the Year,” opposite Robin Williams (lensed 2005)
• Raised on the Upper East Side of NYC
• Will join Philip Seymour Hoffman in “The Savages,” a comedy drama following adult siblings who are forced to take care of their estranged father who never cared for them (lensed 2006)
• Will star in “Breach,” a thriller which tells the story of FBI traitor Robert Hanssen and costars Chris Cooper (lensed 2005)

Angela Lindvall was born in April 1979, in Midwest City, Oklahoma, but was raised in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. She got her start early on, and made it to the big leagues after a scout discovered the 14-year-old while modeling in a Kansas City fashion show. She immediately signed with IMG in New York, and is presently signed with IMG in Paris, and Riccardo Gay in Milan. Angela apparently took a break from age 14 to 17, but came back to the glam world at 17, and with full force. Angela was immediately seen in print ads for companies such as Cerruti 1881, Chanel, Gucci, Halston, Jil Sander, Missoni, Miu Miu, Prada, and Valentino. The blue-eyed beauty was also gracing the covers of magazines such as the British i-D in 1996; Italian Elle and Vogue, and W in 1997; Dazed and Confused, Italian Marie Claire, and Australian, British and American Vogue in 1998; as well as Italian Elle and British Vogue in 1999.

When not on the covers of magazines, Angela was seen in all her splendor on the catwalks for high-fashion designers such as: BCBG, Calvin Klein, Celine, Chanel, Chloe, Christian Dior, Donna Karan, Michael Kors, John Galliano, Givenchy, Tommy Hilfiger, Helmut Lang, Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Valentino, Versus, and Yves Saint Laurent. She has also appeared in multi-page spreads in magazines such as Elle and W. 2000 proved to be a big year for Angela, and the sought-after model was honored with a VH1/Vogue Fashion Award nomination for Model of the Year (for a second time), along with fellow favorites Gisele Bundchen (1999’s winner) and “it” girl Carmen Kaas (who took home the award). Another honor that Angela experienced in 2001 was being selected as one of the models in that year’s coveted Pirelli calendar she, along with Gisele, Aurelie Claudel, and Rhea Durham were photographed in the nude.

Joining the ranks of Niki Taylor and Tyra Banks, the all-American beauty is now also an “Easy, Breezy, Beautiful” Cover Girl for the cosmetics company, as well as the newest face for Tommy Girl. Word has it that she is dating actor Billy Zane, her co-star in the upcoming sci-fi movie, C.Q., in which she stars as Dragonfly. Angela Lindvall could do no wrong right now. Not only is she one of fashion’s hardest working models, she’s one of its most precious faces. She was recently paid $1 million to be featured in Tommy Hilfiger’s new underwear line advertisement.

Editorials : Elle 8/96 , Elle 12/96 , Italian Vogue 1/97 , Spanish Vogue 2/97 , Spanish Vogue 4/97 , Harper’s Bazaar 6/97 , Marie Claire 6/97 , Vogue 7/97 , Harper’s Bazaar 1/98 , UK Vogue 1/98 , Vogue 2/98 , UK Vogue 4/98 , Vogue 4/98 , Elle 8/98 , Harper’s Bazaar 2/99 , Vogue 2/99 , Vogue 5/99 , Jane 7/99 , Harper’s Bazaar 1/00 , Vogue 1/00 , Arena Jan/Feb 2000 , Elle 3/00 , Harper’s Bazaar 3/00 , Vogue 3/00 , UK Vogue 4/00 , Japanese Vogue 4/00 , Harper’s Bazaar 5/00 , Vogue 6/00 , Harper’s Bazaar 9/00 , Vogue 9/00 , i-D 10/00 , Vogue 12/00 , The Face 02/01 , Vogue 4/01 , Harper’s Bazaar 5/01 , UK Vogue 7/01 , Harper’s Bazaar 9/01 , Nylon 09/01 , Elle 11/01 , Harper’s Bazaar 11/01 , Harper’s Bazaar 09/02 , UK Vogue 09/02 , iD 10/02

Advertisements : Chanel , CoverGirl , DKNY , Missoni , Miu Miu , Prada , Tommy Hilfiger

Has modelled in just about every magazine out there. Two-time W magazine cover girl. Models in campaigns for Prada, Chanel, Miu Miu, Jil Sander, TSE, Missoni, Calvin Klein, Gucci, Valentino, Tommy Hilfiger, Cerruti and Victoria’s Secret. Has a Cover Girl contract.

Evangeline Lilly was born on August 3, 1979, in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. She is a Canadian actress and fashion model. Before her outstanding performance as an actress, Lilly was formerly an air hostess. Evey, that’s how people usually call her, is fluent in French. Between acting and modeling, Lilly spends her spare time ice-skating, canoeing, kayaking, snowboarding and rock climbing.

Since fourteen, Lilly has been volunteering for children’s project. She has also joined the missionary group and traveled to over 14 countries. It was no hard times at all for her even though she has to live in a grass hut in the Philippines jungles for the consequence. Despite her joining the Peace Corps, she also founded and ran a world development and human rights committee at the University of British Columbia.

The Ford modeling agency found Lilly on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia. She later signed to the agency so that she could pay her education expenses at the University of British Columbia.

Evangeline Lilly made her outstanding appearance and caught the media attention as she stars Kate in the 2004 ABC TV series “Lost” in which she refused to do partial nude scene in its early episode.

She was originally auditioned for one of the supporting roles, but unexpectedly won the lead role of Kate. The series has led her to be nominated as the Best Actress in a Series by Golden Satellite Awards and Best Actress on Television by Saturn Awards.

Lilly also had her role in TV series “Judgment Day” (2002) and “Kingdom Hospital” (2004), and movies “Stealing Sinatra” (2003) and “The Long Weekend” (2005). As a result of her outstanding act, the Entertainment Weekly has voted Evangeline Lilly as one of the Breakout Stars of 2004.

Kimberly Jones, professionally Lil Kim (also called The Queen Bee and The Lieutenant and The Queen Bitch such as the QB of all bitches) is a United States rapper who was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City on July 11, 1976. She first appeared in the music industry in the early 1990s, as a member of the East Coast hip hop group, Junior Mafia. Kim’s songs have a reputation for being graphically sexual and explicit. Kim made her film debut in She’s All That (1999). She now lives in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Kim began her career as a solo artist with the 1996 release of her debut solo album, Hard Core. Hard Core was well-received critically and commercially; sales were buoyed due to her association with the Notorious B.I.G. Its first single, “No Time”, featured Puff Daddy on the chorus and became an instant hit on hip-hop radio. In early 1997, the second single, “Crush On You,” featured fellow Junior Mafia member, Lil Ceaser, and was an even bigger hit, thanks in part to the track’s memorable and colorful video.

During the summer of 1997, Kim released a remix of “Not Tonight” a very explicit track off of Hard Core, for a film soundtrack. The remix featured a sample of the disco song “Ladies’ Night” and was a girl-power anthem, featuring rhymes by Angie Martinez, Da Brat, TLC’s Lisa Lopes, and Missy Elliott, in addition to Kim. As was the case with “Crush On You,” the song and video were both hugely successful.

In 2000, Lil Kim returned, after an absence from music, with her second full-length album, The Notorious K.I.M. It was not as commercially successful as her debut album, but it spawned two moderate hit hip hop singles, “No Matter What They Say” and “How Many Licks,” which featured Sisqo on the chorus and a risque video that only had limited play on MTV.

In spring of 2001, Lil Kim teamed up with Pink, Mýa, and Christina Aguilera on a remake of Patti Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade,” for which Kim provided a new rap verse. The track was produced by hot hip-hop producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott and was featured in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!. The song’s memorable video featured the four singers dressed in very skimpy clothes and heavy makeup, like women who appear at the Moulin Rouge would typically be dressed. The video was Kim’s first major pop radio hit.

Most recently, Kim released her third studio album, La Bella Mafia, in spring of 2003. The first single and video, “The Jump Off” featured rapper Mr. Cheeks, and was a sizeable hit. Kim also appeared in a posthumous music video for Aaliyah, “Miss You”, in which Kim, Missy Elliott, Brandy, Tweet, DMX, Montel Williams, and several others pay tribute to the deceased star.

During the summer of 2003, “Magic Stick,” the second single from La Bella Mafia, became one of the year’s biggest hits, thanks in part to guest raps from 50 Cent. It is one of the few songs in recent years to have hit number one without the aid of a music video, and is Kim’s most successful single to date.

In the past, Kim has been featured on hit songs by Ray-J, Mobb Deep, The Lox, and the posthumous Notorious B.I.G. track, “Notorious B.I.G.” which contains an extremely blatant sample of Duran Duran’s 1980s hit, “Notorious”.

In addition to being recognized for her music, Kim is notorious for her avant garde style. In what is probably her most memorable public appearance, Lil Kim showed up at the 1999 MTV VMAs with an entire breast hanging out and only a tiny piece of fabric over the nipple. Kim’s outfit became even more controversial later that night, when she appeared on stage with Mary J. Blige and Diana Ross to present an award, and Ms. Ross reached over, cupped her hand under Kim’s exposed breast and jiggled it while both laughed heartily. It was later described as Ross getting to second base with Kim on national television.

Anxious to get on with her acting career, precocious Juliette Lewis dropped out of high school at age 14, passed a proficiency course and became an emancipated minor a year later, unbound by child labor laws. Despite having no training, she had already landed daughter roles in the Showtime miniseries “Home Fires” (1987) and the ABC series “I Married Dora” (1987-88), and though she would return as a series regular in “A Family For Joe” (NBC, 1990), starring Robert Mitchum, she found sitcoms constraining, resenting her directors’ insistence that she do nothing with her hands while standing stiffly, geared for the punchline. The TV-movie “Too Young to Die?” (NBC, 1990), which teamed her with longtime love interest Brad Pitt, provided a sample of the dramatic work to come, casting her as 15-year-old facing the death penalty for murder, but her feature debut as Chevy Chase’s daughter in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989) confined her to emotional territory very much in keeping with the sitcoms she loathed.

Lewis’ breakout role as the thumb-sucking nymphet struggling for independence from her warring parents in Martin Scorsese’s remake of “Cape Fear” (1991) rescued her from sitcom purgatory and earned her an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. Her sensuous scenes with a psychotic killer (played by Robert De Niro) were the sensation of the movie, and Lewis’ small, brightly piercing eyes and pouty mouth suggested a waifish but free-spirited and sexually–indeed, sometimes dangerously–provocative young woman questing for answers and emotional fulfillment, shattering any notion that she would ever be sitcom fodder again. She stepped in for Emily Lloyd as the college student who becomes involved with her professor in Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives” (1992), sympathetically essaying the would-be “other woman” role in a film whose story of a crumbling marriage and the husband’s affair with a much younger woman mirrored the Allen-Mia Farrow breakup.

Expanding on her child-woman of “Cape Fear”, Lewis began her “psychotic waif” period as Gary Oldman’s peroxide blonde moll in Peter Medak’s hopped-up contemporary film noir “Romeo Is Bleeding” (1993) and adopted a horrifically hilarious spastic laugh and adolescent gawkiness for that year’s “Kalifornia”. On the road with homicidal partner Pitt and yuppies David Duchovny and Michelle Forbes, her clueless trailer-park Lolita was a perfect “enabler” for Pitt’s serial killer. Back on the road for “Natural Born Killers” (1994), more closely matched in sociopathic tendencies with fellow love-thug Woody Harrelson as they terrorized the Southwest on their killing spree, she captured the frighteningly odd emptiness of her character’s moral inattention. Tucked amidst these on-the-edge roles was an atypically sweet, reflective turn with Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio in the offbeat “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” (also 1993), but a reteaming with DiCaprio in “Basketball Diaries” (1995) returned her to familiar low-life terrain as a scuzzy hooker.

Unfortunately, the fast pace of Lewis’ personal life was mimicking her out-of-control onscreen reality, and she could no longer hide her drug addiction by the time “The Evening Star” (1996) required her life-imitating-art portrayal of a substance abuser. Taking an 18-month hiatus from movies, she cleaned herself out with the help of Scientology and returned to pictures in the independent film “Some Girls” (1998), acting for the first time with Giovanni Ribisi. Her next project was Garry Marshall’s much more ambitious “The Other Sister” (1999), which starred her opposite Ribisi as a mentally-challenged female coming of age sexually. Though many critics objected to the picture’s sitcom-like script, Lewis had chosen it for the compelling parallels between the life of her character (who had spent an extended period in an institution) and her own life as both were reentering the world after an absence. Opinion varied regarding her performance, but no one could deny the risk she took in taking the part or that she was completely honest in its creation.

Lewis was featured in some lighter fare, as a tough New Jersey girl in the 1980s period piece “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), the HBO original movie co-starred Emmy nominee Gena Rowlands and Golden Globe recipient Uma Thurman. She was next seen in the thriller “Enough” (2002), which starred Jennifer Lopez as an abused wife and mother who with the help of Lewis’ character tries unsuccessfully to escape her abusive husband (played by Billy Campbell). Thier bootless attempts result in a plot for Lopez to kill her abuser. Then, the following year, Lewis took the turn from serious to comical when she was cast as the girlfriend of Luke Wilson’s character in the hilarious feature, “Old School” (2003), a raucous comedy about a trio of thirtysomething buddies who try to recapture their college years by starting their own off-campus fraternity.

• Also Credited As:
  Juliette L. Lewis
• Born:
  on 06/21/1973 in Los Angeles, California
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Producer

Family

• Brother: Lightfield Lewis. born in 1970; feature directorial debut, “The Audition”, starred Juliette Lewis
• Father: Geoffrey Lewis. played bartender on TV series “Flo” (CBS); frequently appeared in Westerns and Clint Eastwood films (”High Plains Drifter” 1973, “Any Which Way You Can” 1980, “Pink Cadillac” 1989); divorced from Glenis Batley when Juliette Lewis was two
• Half-brother: Peter Lewis.
• Half-sister: Dierdre Lewis.
• Mother: Glenis Batley. divorced when Juliette Lewis was two
• Sister: Brandy Lewis. born in 1975; married with two daughters; works as Lewis’ personal assistant

Significant Others

• Companion: Brad Pitt. co-starred in TV-movie, “Too Young to Die?” (1990); dated c. September 1989 to February 1993
• Husband: Steve Berrea. born c. 1972; married on September 9. 1999
• Companion: Brad Pitt. co-starred in TV-movie, “Too Young to Die?” (1990); dated c. September 1989 to February 1993

Milestones

• 1980 Appeared uncredited in Clint Eastwood’s “Bronco Billy”
• 1983 Went to live with father at age 10 (date approximate)
• 1987 Was a series regular on the ABC sitcom “I Married Dora”, starring Elizabeth Pena
• 1987 Appeared in first leading role in Showtime miniseries, “Homefires”
• 1987 Petitioned court at age 14 to become legally “emancipated” (so that she would be exempt from laws that limit child actors to five hours of work on school days)
• 1989 Feature debut, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”
• 1990 Acted with Brad Pitt in the TV-movie “Too Young to Die?” (NBC)
• 1990 Returned as series regular in “A Family For Joe” (NBC), starring Robert Mitchum
• 1991 Breakthrough feature role as Nick Nolte’s daughter in Martin Scorsese’s “Cape Fear”; earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress
• 1992 First leading role in a feature, “That Night”
• 1992 Portrayed Gary Oldman’s peroxide blonde moll in “Romeo Is Bleeding”
• 1992 Replaced Emily Lloyd in Woody Allen’s ensemble feature “Husbands and Wives” after shooting had begun
• 1993 Acted with Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio in the offbeat “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”
• 1993 Reteamed with Pitt for “Kalifornia”, delivering a harrowing portrait as his childlike, clueless trailer trash girlfriend
• 1994 Paired with Woody Harrelson as two love-thugs terrorizing the Southwest in Oliver Stone’s controversial “Natural Born Killers”
• 1995 Found an authentic note as a scuzzy hooker in “Basketball Diaries”, starring DiCaprio
• 1996 In a case of life mirroring art (she was playing a substance abuser in “The Evening Star”), Lewis hit rock bottom after a seven-year slide into drug addiction; had wanted to pull out of movie before it started, but the producers threatened to sue
• 1996 Produced and starred in brother Lightfield Lewis’ “The Audition”
• 1998 Played unsympathetic best friend in “Some Girls”, acting for the first time with Giovanni Ribisi
• 1999 Portrayed mentally-challenged female coming of age sexually in Garry Marshall’s “The Other Sister”, reteaming with Ribisi
• 2002 Co-starred with Jennifer Lopez in the thriller “Enough”
• 2002 Starred opposite Uma Thurman in “Hysterical Blindness” (HBO); although produced for cable TV, screened at Sundance
• 2003 Cast as Heidi in the hilarious comedy feature “Old School”
• 2003 Received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie for her role in “Hysterical Blindness”
• 2004 Featured in the big screen adaption of the 70’s cop series “Starsky & Hutch”
• 2006 Made London stage debut as the heroine of Sam Shepard’s classic play “Fool For Love”
• Left father’s home at age 15, moving in with family friend Karen Black