Neve Campbell

Neve Campbell
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Campbell at the 2006 BAFTAs.
Born Neve Adrianne Campbell
October 3, 1973 (1973-10-03) (age 36)
Guelph, Ontario
Spouse(s) John Light (2007 - present)
Jeff Colt (1995 - 1998; divorced)
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Neve Adrianne Campbell (pronounced /ˈnɛv ˈkæmbəl/ "nev camble"; born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian film and television actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series Party of Five, playing the role of the teenager Julia Salinger. She subsequently appeared in leading roles in several Hollywood films, including Scream, The Craft and Wild Things and has since appeared in smaller parts and returned to stage roles.

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Biography

Early life

Campbell was born in Guelph, Ontario. Campbell's mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga instructor and psychologist[1] from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her father, Gerry Campbell, an immigrant to Canada from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland,[2] taught high school drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario — first at Westwood Secondary School (now Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School) and later at Lorne Park Secondary School and now at Erindale Secondary School. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in the Netherlands and her paternal grandparents were also performers. Campbell is Catholic, but also identifies as Jewish because of her mother's Sephardic Jewish ancestry, about which 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".[3][4]

Campbell's parents divorced when she was two years old. She and brother Christian resided largely with their father (who received custody of the two),[2] with regular periods at their mother's home, until Neve moved into residence at the National Ballet of Canada at age nine. She trained at the National Ballet School of Canada at the age of nine, and appeared in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.[2] Campbell moved from dancing into acting at the age of 15, performing The Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto.[2]

Career

Her first starring role was playing Daisy on the Canadian youth TV series Catwalk from 1992 to 1994. She rose to wider fame outside of Canada after being cast as Julia Salinger in the drama series Party of Five, in which she starred from 1994 to 2000.

Campbell's first widely released film was 1996's The Craft. She appeared in the successful Scream horror film trilogy, followed by Wild Things, and Three to Tango. She was on Peoples "50 Most Beautiful People" list in 1998.

Following the end of the Scream series, Campbell 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.

When Will I Be Loved, released in 2004, was praised by critic Roger Ebert,[5] 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-starred Matthew Modine and Maximilian Schell, and was directed by Robert Altman, with whom Campbell has previously worked with in The Company.[6] She performed again at the West End later in 2006 as part of Love Song, starring alongside Cillian Murphy, Michael McKean, and Kristen Johnston, to mixed reviews.[7]

On July 7, 2007, Campbell presented at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London. In July 2010 Campbell is scheduled to reprise her role as Sidney Prescott in Scream 4.[8]

Personal life

Campbell married Canadian actor Jeff Colt on April 3, 1995; the couple, who met when he was a bartender at Toronto's Pantages Theatre, divorced on May 8, 1998. In 2005, Campbell began dating John Light, an English actor whom she met while filming the movie Investigating Sex. The couple became engaged in December 2005.[9] They married in Malibu in May 2007.[10]

Campbell has appeared in campaign literature and videos for the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada and the Tourette Syndrome Association, a similar organization in the United States.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1993 The Dark Jesse Donovan
1996 The Craft Bonnie
Scream Sidney Prescott
1997 Scream 2 Sidney Prescott
1998 54 Julie Black
Hairshirt Renée Weber
Wild Things Suzie Marie Toller
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride Kiara
1999 Three to Tango Amy Post
2000 Drowning Mona Ellen Rash
Panic Sarah Cassidy
Scream 3 Sidney Prescott
2001 Investigating Sex Alice
2002 Last Call Frances Kroll aka Fitzgerald
2003 Lost Junction Missy Lofton
The Company Ry
Blind Horizon Chloe Richards
2004 When Will I Be Loved Vera Barrie
Churchill: The Hollywood Years Princess Elizabeth
2005 Reefer Madness Miss Poppy
2006 Relative Strangers Ellen Minola
Partition Margaret Stilwell
2007 Closing the Ring Marie
I Really Hate My Job Waitress
2008 Agent Crush Cassie (voice)
Burn Up Holly
2010 Scream 4[8] Sidney Prescott Confirmed

References

  1. ↑ Neve Campbell Biography (1973-)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Findlay, Jane; Lorna Hughes (2000-02-20). "SCREEN STAR'S SCOTS DREAM; NEVE CAMPBELL JUST CAN'T WAIT TO VISIT THE LAND OF HER FATHER", The Sunday Mail. Retrieved on 2007-12-10. 
  3. ↑ newsday.com / The Library @ newsday.com
  4. ↑ Neve Campbell - MiniBio
  5. ↑ :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: When Will I Be Loved (xhtml)
  6. ↑ globeandmail.com: Print Edition
  7. ↑ Campbell, Johnston, McKean and Murphy to Star in West End Love Song, Broadway.com Buzz
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Morris, Clint (July 22, 2008). "Scream 4 spec scribe talks" (in English). Moviehole.net. Retrieved on 2008-07-23.
  9. ↑ IOL: Campbell settles in London with fiancé
  10. ↑ Article in People http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20038016,00.html

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