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Juliette Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress and musician. She gained international fame for her role in the 1991 thriller Cape Fear for which she received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. 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.
Early life and acting career
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.
She appeared in The Wonder Years as Wayne's girlfriend in Episodes 24, 34 and 36. Lewis first garnered international attention and acclaim in 1991 with her turn as Danielle Bowden inMartin 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 inPeter 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".She starred in the video for the Melissa Etheridge song "Come To My Window",and has also appeared in a GAP commercial which she was dancing with Daft Punk to the tune of the song "Digital Love". She also hosted the UK pop quiz show "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" in 2010.
Music
Lewis launched a career as a solo singer and musician, leading American rock band Juliette and the Licksuntil 2009. After splitting with the Licks, she has formed a new band The New Romantiques, with whom she has recorded a new album entitled Terra Incognita.
Lewis features on the track "Bad Brother" by the band The Infidels, from The Crow: Salvation Soundtrack album, which was released on April 2000. She is working with rock songwriter Linda Perry, among others. 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, Blendermagazine included her in their hottest women of rock music list while saying, "[She] delivered sonically varnished melodic punk replete with purring vocals and lyrics that bash porn, pharmaceutical companies and rotten lovers. (in no particular order)".
After success as an actress and now her work as a musician, Lewis says about the two worlds, "I was always using music in my acting to prepare for roles. To me, cinema and music go hand in hand. Now I’m just giving attention to the other side of my art.”
In 2009, Juliette played at Przystanek Woodstock in Poland.
Personal life
At fourteen, she left her parents and went to live with family friend and actress, Karen Black, before moving into her own apartment. Dropping out of high school, she got into trouble with the law for driving illegally at age fifteen and then for illegally patronizing a nightclub when she was sixteen. She eventually went into rehab for drug addiction whilst in her twenties.
Lewis dated actor Brad Pitt, with whom she co-starred in the films Kalifornia and Too Young to Die?. She also dated Michael Dewitt, the nanny hired by Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. She married professional skateboarder Steve Berra in 1999; they divorced in 2003.
Lewis is a Christian and a member of the Church of Scientology.
In October 2010, she was the victim of a hit-and-run car accident in which an unknown driver T-boned the Lincoln Town Car she was travelling in.[30]
She performed with Mando Diao in their MTV Unplugged live show.
Discography
- …Like a Bolt of Lightning (2004)
- You're Speaking My Language (2005)
- Four on the Floor (2006)
- Terra Incognita (2009)
Filmography
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