Personal
Julithe Stiles was born a firstborn of the leash tikes (2 girl & a boy) of John O'Harthe, a teacher & man of affairs of Irish descent, and Judith Stiles, the potter of English and Italian ancestry. She attended Friends Seminary,Quaker school in Manhattan, and was an English major at Columbia University in New York City, though she experienced many days interrupted her studies to pursue her film career. She graduated inside Will 2005, 5 years when typing college. Stiles occurs as Democrat who supported John Kerry's candidacy for President of the United States [http://www.juliastiles.net/news.html#], and her official places, which her mother aids to maintain, will bring the return Moveon.org.

Stiles has too worked for Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica [http://www.habitat.org/newsroom/2000archive/1insitedoc004229.htm], and has worked by owning Amnesty International to try and raise awareness of the coarse conditions of immigration detention of solo juvenile person; Marie Claire magazine, in January 2004, featured Stiles' trip to understand conditions at a Berks County Youth Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania [http://www.amnestyusa.org/artistsforamnesty/feb2004.html] [http://www.amnestyusa.org/artistsforamnesty/july2004.html]. In addition, Stiles serves on the Board of Directors of Amend.org [http://www.amend.org], a New York-based nonprofit that implements childhood injury prevention programs in Africa.

Stiles is likewise an ex-vegan. Whilst interviewed by Conan O'Brien, she said the word "orgasm" came to mind when she had her first cheeseburger after giving up veganism.

A actress has described herself as a feminist and wrote on the subject in The Guardian [http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1240843,00.html]:

Stage career
Stiles began acting at age eleven, performing sustaining Future York's La MaMa Theatre Company, securing work by submitting pic of herself inside costume to the company & request that she become saved inside mind for adolescent roles [http://www.juliastiles.net/theater.html]. She graduated to adult roles by performing around Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and, in the summer of 2002, appeared as Viola, a lead role within Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night with Jimmy Smits. Reviewing a production, Ben Brantley of The New York Times saluted Stiles as "the thinking teenagers' movie goddess" world health organization put him around mind of the "young Jane Fonda". In the spring of 2004, she made her London stage debut opposite Aaron Eckhart in a revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre.

Film career
Stiles' number 1 film was the non-walk-on a share within I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) with Claire Danes and Jude Law. She likewise got little roles when Harrison Ford's daughter in Alan J. Pakula's ''The Devil's Own'' (1997) and in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake. Her foremost lead was within Wicked (1998), playing a teenage girl who murders her mother so she can have her father all to herself. Joe Balthai wrote she was "the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival" and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the "discovery of the fest," however a film was non commercially freed in the U.S. & went direct-to-video.

the role that processed her a star was Kat Stratford, paired Heath Ledger, in Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in the Seattle high school. She won an MTV Movie Award for "Breakthrough Female Performance" for a role, and a Chicago Film Critics voted her the virtually all promising recently actress of the month. Foreign critics applauded her act too. Adina Hoffman praised her as "a young, serious looking Diane Lane" and Martin Hoyle said Stiles played Kat "with bloody-minded independent charm from the beginning with hints of wistfulness beneath the determination."

Her next starring role was around Down to You, which was heavily panned by critics however was the fiscal profits, & earned Stiles & her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry.

She later appeared within both further Shakespearean adaptations. A 1st was swimming a Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer around the title role, in Tim Blake Nelson's O (2001), Othello set in the senior high. A 2nd was swimming Ophelia in Michael Almerayda's Hamlet (2000), with Ethan Hawke in the lead. Neither was a great profits; O got been subjected to numbers of delays & the vary of distributors & Hamlet was an art home film shot in the minimum budget.

Her next commercial profits was within Save the Last Dance (2001), as an aspiring ballerina forced to leave her small town within downstate Illinois to live with her struggling musician father inside Chicago after her mother is killed. At her freshly, 100%-black school, she lessens gaga by having Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip-hop dance steps that get her into The Juilliard School. A role won her ii supplementary MTV awards for "Best Kiss" & "Best Female Performance", & the Teen Guide Award for better fight scene for her battle sustaining Bianca Lawson. Rolling Stone pronounced her "the coolest co-ed", putting her on the handle of its April 12, 2001 issue. She told Rolling Stone that despite hearsay, she did a lot her have dancing in a film, though a way the film was shot & edited manufactured it come out otherwise.

Inside David Mamet's State and Main (2000), about the film shooting withwithin location in the settlement in Vermont, she played the teen girl world health organization seduces the film actor (Alec Baldwin) with the weakness for jeune fille. Stiles likewise played paired Stockard Channing in the dark art house film The Business of Strangers (2001) as a conniving underling world health organizatiin exacts retaliation on her cold boss. Channing was impressed by her co-star: "In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost feral, something that can make people uneasy. She has an effect on people," said Channing. Stiles besides got little roles as a CIA operative in The Bourne Identity (2002) and its sequel The Bourne Supremacy (2004). Aimee Agresti quoted producer Lynda Obst as saying Stiles was turning into the next Meryl Streep.

Her next leading role was inside Mona Lisa Smile (2003) as Joan, the student at Wellesley College in 1953, whose art professor (Julia Roberts) encourages her to pursue a career around law rather than becoming a married woman & mother. Stephen Holden referred to her when one of a cinema's "brightest young stars," however a film met using typically unfavourable reviews.

Stiles played the Wisconsin co-ed, using dreams of becoming the doctor, world health organization is sweep away her feet by the Danish prince in The Prince and Me (2004), directed by Martha Coolidge. Stiles told Leslie Goober that she wwhen super similar to the character, Paige Morgan, however critic Scott Foundas said patch she was, as universally, "irrepressibly engaging" the film was a "strange career choice for Stiles." This echoed criticism inside reviews of A Guy Thing (2003), a romanticist comedy by having Jason Lee and Selma Blair; Dennis Harvey wrote that Stiles was "wasted," & Stephen Holden known as her "a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally."

Television
Stiles' act in television has been extra limited. When ii appearances when a comupter chintzy True heath on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She has been seen inside both mass produced-for-TV picture show. Around Prior to Women Got Wings (1997) on CBS, she played opposite Ellen Burstyn and Oprah Winfrey in an adaptation of the novel by Connie May Fowler. Marcia Ross, a film's casting director, told Jeffrey Ressner "she projects an intelligent depth, she's not girlish, and she'll easily grow into adult roles."

Stiles too played the teenaged girl world health organization finds herself pregnant & diarrhea out of her unrelenting father (Bill Smitrovich) in NBC's miniseries ''The '60's (1999), a film Caryn James dismissed as "conspicuously idiotic." Stiles was the public face of the film, with NBC using her face, painted with a peace sign and the American flag, both in its advertising and on the cover of the soundtrack album.

In March 17, 2001, Stiles hosted Saturday Night Live and eight days late introduced a music candidate at the 73rd Academy Awards. She returned to Saturday Night Live'' on May 5 in a cameo when President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna. MTV profiled her in its Diary series inside 2003, and she was ''Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher at a museum in the spring of 2004.

Filmography
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC" ! Season !! Film !! Role !! More notes |- | 2006 || Burns || Jean Armour || Pre-production |- | 2005 || Edmond || Glenna || Post-production, due December 20, 2005 |- | 2005 || Going Down ||   || Announced |- | 2005 || A Little Trip to Heaven || Isold || Post-production |- | 2004 || The Bourne Supremacy || Nicky ||   |- | 2004 || The Prince and Me || Paige Morgan ||   |- | 2003 || Mona Lisa Smile || Joan Bandwyn ||   |- | 2003 || Carolina || Carolina || Direct-to-video release in 2005 |- | 2003 || A Guy Thing || Becky ||   |- | 2002 || The Bourne Identity || Nicky ||   |- | 2001 || O || Desi Brable ||   |- | 2001 || The Business of Strangers || Paula Murphy ||   |- | 2001 || Save the Last Dance || Sara Johnson ||   |- | 2000 || State and Main || Carla ||   |- | 2000 || Hamlet || Ophelia ||   |- | 2000 || Down to You || Imogen ||   |- | 1999 || 10 Things I Hate About You || Katarina "Kat" Stratford ||   |- | 1998 || Wide Awake || Neena Beal ||   |- | 1998 || Wicked || Ellie Christianson || Direct-to-video |- | 1997 || The Devil's Own'' || Bridget O'Meara ||   |- | 1996 || I Love You, I Love You Not || Young Nana's Friend || Silent role |}