Juliette Lewis

About Juliette Lewis

Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress and musician, as well as public spokesperson for Scientology.

Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father is actor Geoffrey Lewis and her mother, Glenis Batley (née Duggan), is a graphic designer. They divorced when she was two years old. She has two brothers, Lightfield and Peter, and two sisters, Dierdre and Brandy. Her uncle is composer Peter Tod Lewis. She wanted to act since she was six years old and got her start in TV at the age of 12.

Juliette Lewis has appeared in over 40 films and made-for-TV movies. Lewis first garnered international attention and acclaim in 1991 with her turn as Danielle Bowden in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992. Juliette was often known for her quirky behavior, and in 1996, she posed for a picture in Us Weekly which showed just a close-up of the filthy soles of her bare feet. Over the next few years, she won further critical support in Peter Medak's Romeo is Bleeding, opposite Brad Pitt in Kalifornia, and, in perhaps her best known role as Mallory Knox opposite Woody Harrelson in Natural Born Killers. In 1995 she starred in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days; in the movie she sings PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me" from the eponymous album, anticipating her later work as a singer. 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.