Celebrity Movie Blog

Who is Julia Stiles?

Julia Stiles was born on the 28th march 1981 in New York, New York. She is a stage and screen actress. 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. Stiles' first film was a non-speaking part in 1996.Her first lead was in Wicked (1998), playing a teenage girl who murders her mother so she can have her father all to herself. Her next starring role was in Down to You (2000), which was heavily panned by critics. Next, Julia had small, but crucial roles as Treadstone operative Nicolette Parsons in The Bourne Identity (2002) and its sequel The Bourne Supremacy (2004). She returned to the Bourne series with a much larger role in The Bourne Ultimatum in 2007. Producer Lynda Obst was quoted as saying that Stiles was "turning into the next Meryl Streep". Stiles is a Democrat and supported John Kerry's candidacy in 2004. Her official site, which her mother helps to maintain, provides a link to Moveon.org. She has also worked for Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica and has worked with Amnesty International.