Juliette Lewis biography
Juliette Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress and singer. She gained fame for her role in the 1991 thriller Cape Fear for which she was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. This followed with major roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, The Evening Star, and From Dusk Till Dawn. Her work in television has resulted in two Emmy nominations.
Lewis launched a career as a solo singer and musician, leading American rock band, Juliette and the Licks, until 2009.
Early life
Juliette Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California, to Geoffrey Lewis, an actor, and Glenis Duggan Batley, a graphic designer. She has four siblings - brothers, Lightfield and Peter, and sisters, Deirdre and Brandy.
Acting
Lewis appeared in
The Wonder Years as Wayne's girlfriend in Episodes 24, 34 and 36. She also played Audrey Griswold in
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Lewis first garnered international attention and acclaim in 1991 with her turn as Danielle Bowden in Martin Scorsese's remake of
Cape Fear, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1991. Over the next few years, she won further critical support in Woody Allen's
Husbands and Wives, Peter Medak's
Romeo Is Bleeding, and opposite Brad Pitt in
Kalifornia. In 1993, she acted alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp in the drama film
What's Eating Gilbert Grape. She played Mallory Knox in Oliver Stone's
Natural Born Killers. She played a rock singer in the film
Strange Days, doing her own singing on covers of two songs written by PJ Harvey, revealing her musical ability.
She received an Emmy nomination for her performance in Hysterical Blindness in 2003. She also appeared in the HIM music video for "Buried Alive By Love" in 2003.
Lewis appeared in Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV, providing the voice of "Juliette", the host of fictional radio station "Radio Broker" (on which appears the Juliette and the Licks song 'Inside the Cage)'. She appeared in a GAP commercial in which she was dancing with Daft Punk to the tune of the song "Digital Love".
She also appeared in the movie Renegade with Vincent Cassel, a Jan Kounen film.
She will star in the mid-season replacement, The Firm, on NBC as Tammy, assistant to lead character Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas).
Music
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Lewis launched a career as a solo singer and musician, leading American rock band Juliette and the Licks until 2009. She then formed a new band, originally to be named The New Romantiques, but decided to drop this name and continue as her namesake. She has recorded and released the album entitled Terra Incognita with the new band.
Lewis features on the track "Bad Brother" by the band The Infidels, from The Crow: Salvation Soundtrack album, which was released on April 2000. 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"). In 2006, Blender magazine included her in their hottest women of rock music list.
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