Neve Campbell

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Neve Campbell

Birth name	Neve Adrianne Campbell
Born	October 3, 1973 (age 33) Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Height	5'5½" (1.66m)
Official site	Official American Fansite Official Danish Fansite
Notable roles	Sidney Prescott in Scream film trilogy. Julia Salinger in Party of Five TV series.
Spouse(s)	Jeff Colt (3 April 1995 - 8 May 1998) (divorced)

Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress.

1 Biography
2 Selected filmography
3 External links
- 3.1 Interviews
- 3.2 Web sites

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Campbell was born in Guelph, province of Ontario, Canada. Her father, Gerry Campbell, an immigrant to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland, works as a high school drama teacher at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario. Campbell was brought up Catholic but has made reference to her psychiatrist mother Marnie's Sephardic Jewish ancestry in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.[1] She has said: "I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes." ^[2] Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in the Netherlands and her paternal grandparents were also performers. Her first name is her mother's maiden name and means "snow" in Italian and Portuguese; and "oasis" in Hebrew.[3]

Campbell's parents divorced shortly after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her father. She began her show career as a dancer. She trained at the National Ballet School of Canada at the age of 9, and appeared in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.

Her ambition since she was about six years old was to be a classically-trained ballerina, but after numerous injuries (pulled calf muscles, arthritis in the neck and hips, surgery on her feet, fallen arches, hip syndrome, tendonitis, shin splints, bursitis, etc.) she got a check-up from the doctor and he told her that she had practically no joints left.

Campbell moved from dancing into acting at the age of 15, performing The Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto. Her first starring role was on the short-lived Canadian television series Catwalk.

[edit] Career

Campbell rose to wider fame after being cast as the lead character, Julia Salinger, in the teen drama series Party of Five; she played this character from 1994 to 2000. Campbell's first widely released film was 1996's The Craft. She subsequently appeared in the enormously successful Scream horror film trilogy, as well as Wild Things, Blues Brothers 2000, and Three to Tango. She was on People's "50 Most Beautiful People" list in 1998.

Following the end of the Scream series, Campbell's career became more low-key, and she appeared in several films that received a limited theatrical release, but were well reviewed by critics, including the 2000 film, Panic, in which she starred alongside William H. Macy and Donald Sutherland, and the 2003 film, The Company, about Chicago's Joffrey Ballet. Campbell co-wrote, produced, and starred in the film. Despite pre-release publicity suggesting otherwise, Campbell did not break her tradition of having a "no-nudity" clause in her contract for the film. She did break the clause for When Will I Be Loved, released in 2004, a film which was praised by critic Roger Ebert [4], but which received only a brief and limited theatrical release.

In March 2006, Campbell made her West End theatre debut, in a version of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic theatre. The play, which received mixed reviews, co-stars Matthew Modine and Maximilian Schell, and is directed by Robert Altman, with whom Campbell has previously worked with in The Company.[5]

She was reportedly in talks to return to the Scream series, but this was confirmed to be only a rumour. None of the cast or crew want it to continue further than was originally planned.

[edit] Personal life

Campbell married Canadian actor Jeffrey Colt in 1995; they divorced in 1998. She has also dated actors John Cusack, Matthew Lillard, and Pat Mastroianni.

Campbell appears in campaign literature and videos for the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada and the Tourette Syndrome Association, (a similar organisation in the United States). Her younger half-brother, Damian McDonald, has Tourette syndrome. She also has an elder brother, Christian Campbell, and another brother, Alex, both of whom are actors.

In 2005, Campbell began dating John Light, an English actor who she met while filming the movie Investigating Sex. The couple became engaged in December 2005 and live in London, England [6]. When Light proposed, he got down on one knee and recited Shakespeare to Campbell [7].

[edit] Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2006	Partition
2005	Reefer Madness	Miss Poppy
2004	Churchill: The Hollywood Years	Princess Elizabeth
2003	The Company	Ry
2003	Lost Junction	Missy Lofton
2002	Last Call	Frances Kroll	aka Fitzgerald
2001	Investigating Sex	Alice
2000	Drowning Mona	Ellen Rash
2000	Scream 3	Sidney Prescott
1999	Three to Tango	Amy Post
1998	54	Julie Black
1998	Hairshirt	Renée Weber
1998	Wild Things	Suzie Marie Toller
1998	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Kiara
1997	Scream 2	Sidney Prescott
1996	Scream	Sidney Prescott
1996	The Craft	Bonnie