Neve Campbell

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Neve Campbell
Campbell at the 1997 Emmy Awards
Birth name	Neve Adrianne Campbell
Born	October 3, 1973 (age 33) Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s)	Jeff Colt (3 April 1995 - 8 May 1998) (divorced)
Official site	Official American Fansite Official Danish Fansite
Notable roles	Sidney Prescott in Scream trilogy. Julia Salinger in Party of Five Bonnie in The Craft

Neve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series Party of Five, and subsequently appeared in leading roles in several Hollywood films, including Scream and Wild Things. She has since appeared in smaller roles.

1 Biography
2 Selected filmography
3 Footnotes
4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Campbell was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her father, Gerry Campbell, an immigrant to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland, worked as a high school drama teacher at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario. Her mother, Marnie Neve, is a psychiatrist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 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, specifying that her "lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes".^[1]^[2] Her first name means "snow" in Italian and Portuguese; and "oasis" in Hebrew.^[3]

Campbell's parents divorced during her second year of life. She and brother Christian Campbell resided largely with their father, with regular periods at their mother's home, until Neve moved into residence at the National Ballet of Canada at age ten. She trained at the National Ballet School of Canada at the age of nine, and appeared in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Campbell moved from dancing into acting at the age of fifteen, 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.

Campbell attended Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario.

[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 successful Scream horror film trilogy, as well as Wild Things, 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 was directed by Robert Altman, with whom Campbell has previously worked with in The Company.^[5] 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.^[6]

[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.^[7] When Light proposed, he got down on one knee and recited Shakespeare to Campbell.^[8]

[edit] Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1996	Scream	Sidney Prescott
1996	The Craft	Bonnie
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
2000	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
2005	Reefer Madness	Miss Poppy
2006	Relative Strangers	Ellen Minola
2006	Partition	Margaret Stilwell