Neve Campbell

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Date of Birth:	03 October 1973
Birthplace:	Guelph, Ontario
Age:	36
First Name:	Neve
Middle Name:	Adrianne
Last Name:	Campbell
Build:	Slim
Height:	5' 5?" (166 cm)
Eye Color:	Brown - Dark
Hair Color:	Brown - Dark
Star Sign:	Libra
Claim to Fame:	Phantom of the Opera, Party of Five
Occupation:	Actress
Religion:	Roman Catholic
Occupation Category:	Actress
Nationality:	Canadian
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Biography for Neve Campbell

Neve Adrianne Campbell (born Oct. 3, 1973 (39 years ago)) is a Canadian actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990 (22 years ago) TV 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.

Early years

Campbell was born in Guelph, Ontario. Campbell's mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga instructor and psychologist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her father, Gerry Campbell, an immigrant to Canada from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, 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 Roman 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".

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), with regular periods at their mother's home, until Neve was nine years old. At that time she moved into residence at the National Ballet School of Canada, training there and appearing in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Campbell moved from dancing into acting at the age of 15, when she performed in The Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto.

Career

Neve's first starring role was Daisy in the Canadian youth TV series Catwalk, which she held from 1992 (20 years ago) to 1994 (18 years ago). She rose to fame outside Canada after being cast as Julia Salinger in the drama series Party of Five, in which she performed from 1994 (18 years ago) to 2000 (12 years ago).

Campbell's first widely released movie was 1996's The Craft. She then had a starring role in the Scream horror movie trilogy. Roger Ebert, in his review of Scream 3, wrote of Campbell, "The camera loves her. She could become a really big star and then giggle at clips from this movie at her AFI tribute."

Campbell also appeared in Wild Things and Three to Tango. In 1998 (14 years ago), she was on People's "50 Most Beautiful People" list.

Following the last of the Scream series, Campbell appeared in several movies that received a limited theatrical release but were well reviewed by critics, including the 2000 (12 years ago) movie Panic, in which she appeared alongside William H. Macy and Donald Sutherland, and the 2003 (9 years ago) movie The Company, about Chicago's Joffrey Ballet. Campbell co-wrote, produced, and starred in that film.

The independent movie When Will I Be Loved, released in 2004 (8 years ago), was praised by critic Roger Ebert but received only a brief and limited theatrical release. In Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2009 edition), the movie critic describes it as an "Unlikable movie ... crammed with coldhearted characters who are obsessed with big bucks, sleazy sex, and endless hustling."

In Mar. 2006 (6 years ago), Campbell made her West End theatre debut, in a version of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic theatre. Matthew Modine and Maximilian Schell also appeared in the play, which received mixed reviews. Resurrection Blues was directed by Robert Altman, with whom Campbell has previously worked in The Company. Later in 2006 (6 years ago) Neve performed again in the West End in Love Song, alongside Cillian Murphy, Michael McKean, and Kristen Johnston, to mixed reviews.

On Jul. 7, 2007 (5 years ago), Campbell presented at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London.

On Jun. 24, 2009 (3 years ago), Neve returned to TV in a starring role on NBC's The Philanthropist.

Recently Campbell has announced that she has been and is still currently in talks with the Weinstein Company to reprise her role of Sidney Prescott in the upcoming movie 'Scream 4.'

Personal life

Campbell married Canadian actor Jeff Colt on Apr. 3, 1995 (17 years ago). The couple, who met when he was a bartender at Toronto's Pantages Theatre, divorced on May 8, 1998 (14 years ago). In 2005 (7 years ago), Campbell began dating John Light, an English actor whom she met while filming the movie Investigating Sex. The couple became engaged in dec. 2005 (7 years ago). They married in Malibu in May 2007 (5 years ago).

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

• Are You Afraid of the Dark?
• The Dark
• The Craft
• Scream
• Scream 2
• 54
• Hairshirt
• Wild Things
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
• Three to Tango
• Drowning Mona
• Panic
• Scream 3
• Investigating Sex
• Last Call
• Lost Junction
• The Company
• Blind Horizon
• When Will I Be Loved
• Churchill: The Hollywood Years
• Reefer Madness
• Relative Strangers
• Partition
• Closing the Ring
• Love Bites
• I Really Hate My Job
• Agent Crush
• Burn Up
• Vivaldi
• The Philanthropist

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