JULIETTE LEWIS BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Juliette Lewis was born on June 21st, 1973 in Los Angeles, California to parents, Geoffrey Lewis, an actor and Glenys Batley. She had four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. As a young girl she always knew she wanted to grow up and work in the entertainment industry. By the age of twelve she was already appearing on television in, "Home Fires" (1987) along with such roles in the television series, "The Wonder Years" (1988) and "The Facts of Life" (1988). She dropped out of high school just three weeks after being enrolled and focused 100% on a acting career.
Soon she was cast in her first film role alongside Chevy Chase in, "Christmas Vacation" (1989). Other film roles soon followed such as, "Crooked Hearts" (1991) and "Cape Fear" (1991), for which she earned an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Although she was only sixteen years old, she was already making quite a name for herself in the industry and had no intentions of slowing down. She added to her resume the television movie, "Too Young to Die" (1990) which also starred Brad Pitt.
As her career progressed she graced the silver screen in such films as, "Husbands and Wives" (1992), "Kalifornia" (1993), "Romeo Is Bleeding" (1993), "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993), "Natural Born Killers" (1994), "Mixed Nuts" (1994), "Strange Days" (1995), 'From Dusk Till Dawn" (1996), "The Evening Star" (1996), "The Other Sister" (1999) and "Starsky & Hutch" (2004).
In addition to working as a film actress, Lewis also turned her attention to focus on a music career releasing such soundtracks as, "These Boots Are made for Walking" (1994), "Hardly Wait" (1995), "Feeling Alright" (2001) and "Uh Huh" (2010). Up until 2009 she was in a band called Juliette and the Licks. She has now formed a new band called, and originally changed the bands name to the New Romantiques but reverted back to the original name.
Juliette has also made numerous television appearances on such TV movies as, "My Louisiana Sky" (2001), "Hysterical Blindness" (2002) and "Chasing Freedom" (2004). Lewis also worked on a variety of television series such as, "Free For All", "Memphis Beat", "My Name is Earl" and as the character, Tammy on, "The Firm".
Lewis has married only one time to a professional skateboarder, Stephen Berra in 1999 however, by 2005 this marriage ended in divorce but the couple remain friends.
More recently she has added such film credits to her resume as, "Whip It" (2009), "Metropia" (2009), "The Switch" (2010), "Sympathy Delicious" (2010), "Conviction" (2010), "Due Date" (2010) and soon to release in 2012, "Open Road".
Filmography
2012 Open Road
2012 The Firm
2011 Foreverland
2011 Hick
2010 Due Date
2010 Conviction
2010 The Switch
2010 Memphis Beat
2010 Sympathy for Delicious
2009 Whip It
2009 Metropia
2006 Catch and Release
2006 Grilled
2006 My Name Is Earl
2006 The Darwin Awards
2006 Lightfield's Home Videos
2005 Daltry Calhoun
2005 Aurora Borealis
2004 Starsky & Hutch
2004 Renegade
2004 Chasing Freedom
2003 Cold Creek Manor
2003 Free for All
2003 Old School
2002 Enough
2002 Armitage: Dual Matrix
2002 Hysterical Blindness
2001 Dharma & Greg
2001 Picture Claire
2001 My Louisiana Sky
2001 Gaudi Afternoon
2000 Room to Rent
2000 The Way of the Gun
1999 The 4th Floor
1999 The Other Sister
1998 Some Girl
1996 The Evening Star
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn
1995 Strange Days
1995 The Basketball Diaries
1994 Mixed Nuts
1994 Natural Born Killers
1993 What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 Romeo Is Bleeding
1993 Kalifornia
1992 That Night
1992 Husbands and Wives
1991 Cape Fear
1991 Crooked Hearts
1990 A Family for Joe
1990 Too Young to Die?
1989-1990 The Wonder Years
1989 The Runnin' Kind
1989 Meet the Hollowheads
1988 My Stepmother Is an Alien
1988 The Facts of Life
1987-1988 I Married Dora
1987 Home Fires
