Julia O’Hara Stiles was born and raised in New York City. She started acting at the age of 11 performing with New York’s La MaMa Theatre Company. She gained prominence for her lead roles in teen films such as 10 Things I Hate About You and Save the Last Dance. She became known to a wider audience for her supporting role as Nicky Parsons in the Bourne film series.
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Julia O’Hara Stiles was born and raised in New York City. She started acting at the age of 11 performing with New York’s La MaMa Theatre Company. Stiles’ first film role was in I Love You, I love You Not, followed by a leading role in the thriller Wicked. She gained prominence for her lead roles in teen films such as 10 Things I Hate About You and Save the Last Dance. She became known to a wider audience for her supporting role alongside Matt Damon as Nicky Parsons in the Bourne film series. She had a recurring role as Lumen Pierce in the fifth season of the Showtime series Dexter, which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She currently stars in the Sky Atlantic series Riviera, and appears in the Blue web series also broadcast on television. She is the oldest of three children; her siblings are John Junior and Jane. Stiles is of English, Irish, and Italian descent. She has three children with her husband, Michael Stiles, and a daughter with actor Matthew Broderick. She also has a son with actor Jason Priestley, who appeared in the film The Omen and the TV series The Affair with the Stars.
She and her husband have two children with actor Michael Keaton, who also appeared in The Bourne films and the series Dexter. Her daughter is the daughter of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New Jersey Gov. Ed Rendell, who died in a car accident in 2009. She lives with her mother in Chicago, Illinois, and has two step-daughters and a step-son with her ex-boyfriend, actor John Travolta. Her son is a junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also teaches hip-hop dance. Her husband is a former U.S. Air Force pilot and former Navy SEAL. She was married to actor Michael Douglas until his death in 2010. She now lives in Chicago with her family and has a daughter, a son and a son-in-law with whom she has two children. She works as a freelance writer and has appeared in several Shakespearean adaptations, including Hamlet, Desdemona, and The Cry of the Owl. She appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone’s April 2001 issue, and put her co-ed on its cover of its April 2002 issue.
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