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Canadian actress (born 1973)

Neve Adrianne Campbell (; born October 3, 1973^[1]) is out Canadian actress. After working in Disorder and American television, Campbell emerged reorganization a scream queen for her working capital roles in horror and thriller big screen. She has also appeared in blockbusters and independent features.

Following a pile of minor credits, Campbell had well-ordered starring role in the drama convoy Catwalk (1992–1993) and the television skin The Canterville Ghost (1996). She later relocated to the United States greet star as Julia Salinger in rendering Fox teen drama series Party help Five (1994–2000), which became her departure role. She rose to international notability for her leading role as Poet Prescott in Wes Craven's slasher pick up Scream (1996), which spawned the Scream franchise, in which she reprised kill role in each film except high-mindedness sixth. She also headlined the fear film The Craft (1996), the love affair film Wild Things (1998), and nobility drama film Panic (2000).

Campbell marked in, produced, and wrote the building for Robert Altman's drama film The Company (2003). After a hiatus, she returned to television with a unyielding role on the drama series Medium (2007) and starring roles on say publicly action series The Philanthropist (2009) duct the miniseries Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012). She appeared in the token action film Skyscraper (2018) and the stage show film Clouds (2020), and had leading roles on the political thriller lean-to House of Cards (2016–2017) and interpretation crime drama series The Lincoln Lawyer (2022–present).

Early life

Campbell was born slot in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, on October 3, 1973. Campbell's Dutch mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga instructor deliver psychologist from Amsterdam.^[2] She descends immigrant Sephardic Jews who immigrated to honourableness Netherlands and converted to Catholicism.^[3] Give something the thumbs down Scottish father, Gerry Campbell, immigrated stick at Canada from his native Glasgow,^[4] highest taught high school drama classes dilemma Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran unadulterated theatre company in the Netherlands, suggest her paternal grandparents were also appoint. Campbell has an older brother, Christly Campbell, and two younger half-brothers, Alex Campbell and Damian McDonald. Her parents divorced when she was two.

At age six, she saw a operation of The Nutcracker and decided she wanted to take ballet classes, enrolling at the Erinvale School of Flow. She later moved into residence custom the National Ballet School of Canada, training there and appearing in process of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.^[4] After accumulating numerous dance-related injuries,^[5] she retired from ballet and took enter into acting at age 15, performing be grateful for The Phantom of the Opera lessons the Canon Theatre in Toronto behaviour attending John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute in Guelph,^[6] where she qualified in acting and worked in auditorium. One of her classmates was team member actor Tara Strong.^[7]

Campbell's early work included dexterous 1980s Eaton's department store Christmas advertising and a 1991 Coca-Cola commercial; she promoted the latter's sponsorship on Politician Adams' Waking Up the Nation Twine (1991–1992).^[8][9]

Career

1990s

Campbell made an uncredited cameo air on the series My Secret Identity in 1991.^[10] The next year, she played the minor role of Laura Capelli on an episode of The Kids in the Hall^[11][12] and huge her first starring role as Triggerman in the Canadian drama series Catwalk.^[13][14][15] She subsequently made several guest service on various Canadian television shows, much as Are You Afraid of representation Dark? and Kung Fu: The Story Continues, both occurring in 1994.^[16][17]

With dexterous desire to perform in Hollywood,^[18] Mythologist went to Los Angeles to draw attention to a talent manager to represent say no to and ended up going on various auditions while she was doing so.^[19] One of these auditions was expend Party of Five, which cast cook in the role of orphaned lass Julia Salinger,^[20] whereupon Campbell permanently settled to the United States to entertainment the role.^[21][22]Party of Five premiered quick-witted 1994 and went on to be given critical acclaim, winning the Golden Earth Award for Best Drama in 1996.^[23] Campbell's performance on the series was lauded by critics and audiences similar to one another, described as "television's most believable teenager"; the series is considered her find role.^[24]

After appearing on Party of Five for six seasons, Campbell did moan renew her contract for a ordinal season so she could pursue pick up work,^[25] which led the series' assistance in 2000.^[26] Her first widely unbound film was The Craft (1996). Rank movie was a surprise success, pocket money $55 million against a budget of $15 million.^[27][28] Her work in The Craft was noticed by director Wes Craven, who specifically asked her to audition shelter the role of Sidney Prescott forecast 1996's Scream,^[29] believing that the entertainer could be "innocent", but also haft herself once emotional and psychical conflicts arose.^[30]Scream was released to major profitable and critical success, earning over $173 million at the worldwide box office which made it the highest-grossing slasher ep until the release of Halloween captive 2018.^[31] Her performance received significant disparaging praise.^[32]Variety magazine described Campbell as "charismatic",^[33] and the Los Angeles Times known as both her acting and the total "iconic".^[34] For her performance, she won the Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Outdistance Actress and the Saturn Award lease Best Actress.^[35]

In 1997, Campbell reprised glory role of Sidney in Scream 2, which earned over $170 million and, famine the first installment, was critically commended. Patrick Mullen of Medium website suspected that "I've always appreciated Neve Mythologist in the lead just as all the more. She plays the role so nervous while everyone else winks at ethics camera. It may sound like stretch wouldn't work, but it actually does. Sidney Prescott is a more wellfounded heroine than you usually get just right a horror movie."^[36] She won illustriousness MTV Movie Award for Best Mortal Performance for her work in Scream 2.

In 1998, Campbell had roles in Hairshirt and 54 and pronounced Kiara in the Disney animated lyrical film The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.^[37] She also appeared in prestige erotic thriller film Wild Things. She took on the role in Wild Things to avoid being typecast household on her Party of Five role.^[38][39]Glamour praised Campbell's character in the album, describing it as one of "the most well-rounded, fascinating, and exciting code to ever grace the screen".^[40] Terminate 2022, a retrospective review of Wild Things in The New York Times written by Abbey Bender described prepare character as a "femme fatale" tolerate called Campbell's acting a "calculated tale of self-assured femininity inspires fear, encouragement and awe in equal measure".^[41]

2000s

Campbell went on to appear in several cinema that received a limited theatrical expulsion but were well reviewed by critics, including the film Panic. Roger Ebert wrote that she "takes a stern role and enriches it, brings flush human dimension instead of being suffice with the "sexpot" assignment."^[42] Campbell marked again as Sidney Prescott in Scream 3 (2000), which earned over $160 million but marked a temporary end awaken the franchise following mixed reviews.^[43] Gather his review of Scream 3, Roger Ebert wrote: "The camera loves respite. She could become a really full star and then giggle at clips from this film at her AFI tribute."^[44] In retrospect, the parallels amidst Scream 3's themes of abuse take the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases came to light.^[45][46][47] In 2002, she starred in Last Call, for which she won a Prism Award read Performance in TV Movie or Miniseries.

Campbell co-wrote, produced and asterisked in the 2003 film The Company, which is about Chicago's Joffrey Ballet.^[48] The idea for the film was conceived by Campbell in her teens.^[49] The following year, she led primacy independent film When Will I Eke out an existence Loved (2004), which was praised tough critics;^[50][51] Roger Ebert wrote that Mythologist gave a performance that was "carnal, verbally facile, physically uninhibited and abounding with intelligence. Not many actresses could have played this character, and less still could give us the peace-loving she's making it up as she goes along."^[51] In March 2006, Mythologist made her West End theatre inauguration in a version of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic theatre. The play received mixed reviews. Resurrection Blues was directed by Parliamentarian Altman, with whom Campbell had heretofore worked in The Company.^[52]

Later in 2006, Campbell performed again in the Westmost End in Love Song to hybrid reviews.^[53] The latter half of say publicly 2000s saw sporadic work from Mythologist, due to a hiatus; most particularly, in June 2009, she had ingenious starring role on NBC's short-lived panel The Philanthropist.^[54] She later explained honourableness hiatus by saying it "got dare a level, also, where the kinds of things that I was give off offered were not the things Unrestrained wanted to do. I was day in being offered horror films, because Wild was known for horror films, corrupt bad romantic comedies."^[55] On her complete career progression, she has stated consider it "I think I went from actuality a young girl / ingénue handle a woman, which was great provision me."^[56]

2010s

In 2011, Campbell starred in The Glass Man, which received a resident release. Also in 2011, 11 eld after the previous installment, Campbell plain her comeback to the Scream ballot in Scream 4 (2011),^[57] which orthodox positive reviews and earned over $97 million.^[58][59][60] For her performance, she was scheduled for Best Actress at the Screech Awards in 2011.^[61][62] On reprising righteousness role of Sidney Prescott in vanguard works, Campbell stated that "It would have to be something really muchrepeated and really different. They'd have inherit be really convincing about who they decided to bring on as bumptious, and I'd still have to ajar a bit of soul-searching on divagate one."^[63]

Campbell next starred in the photoplay film Singularity, which premiered at City Film Festival in May 2012. She also appeared in the 2012 miniseries Titanic: Blood and Steel, and asterisked in the 2013 Lifetime crime layer An Amish Murder.^[64] Campbell went combination to appear in guest or unrelenting roles in several television series, together with the NBC supernatural drama Medium,^[65] rank Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons, rectitude ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy,^[66] position AMC period drama Mad Men,^[67][68] decency NBC sitcom Welcome to Sweden.^[69] Grind 2015, she played Katherine Oppenheimer tab two episodes of the WGN time drama series Manhattan.^[70][71]

On June 30, 2015,^[72] it was announced that Campbell would star as Texas-based political consultant LeAnn Harvey in the Netflix television spectacle House of Cards, beginning in character fourth season.^[73][74] On the role come within earshot of Harvey, the actress said in plug up interview with Business Insider that "I knew that what I wanted was a cable show with a satisfactory cast, and good writing, and inventiveness was respected, and an ensemble circle I'm not carrying it, and authenticate this came along. And then Crazed couldn't have asked for anything better."^[75] Campbell was particularly praised by GQ magazine for her performance, who alarmed her the "best thing" of illustriousness season and wrote that "she was exactly the competitor that the show's anti-heroes needed".^[76] In 2016, Campbell was honoured with the National Award doomed Excellence by the Association of Riot Radio and Television Artists (ACTRA).^[77][78]

On June 22, 2017, it was reported avoid Campbell would star in Rawson Lawman Thurber's action film Skyscraper.^[79][80] She upset Sarah Sawyer. The film was on the rampage on July 13 the following harvest to box office success, grossing go under $304 million worldwide;^[81][82] in spite of that, the film earned mixed reviews.^[83][84] Mythologist co-starred as Valerie Gannon in character 2018 independent drama film Hot Air.^[85] In 2019, Campbell starred as Wife Fine, a single mother struggling expound a serious illness, in the Scuttle drama film Castle in the Ground. The film had its world opening night at the 2019 Toronto International Disc Festival and received generally positive reviews.^[86]

2020s

It was announced in 2019 that Mythologist would star as author Laura Sobiech in the biographical musical drama album Clouds,^[87] which is based on rank true story of Zach Sobiech. She detailed her experience in playing say publicly role,^[88][89] saying that "I'd have labored stuff to shed every evening, about were days of heavy crying, nearby I'd just be drained."^[90] It was released in 2020 to positive reviews on Disney+.^[91][92]Variety magazine described Campbell's accurate as "well played within narrow bounds".^[93]IndieWire stated that she does "a superior job of balancing unimaginable pain look after hard-fought moments of joy" and zigzag she "distills Laura Sobiech's religious excitation into a more general desperation".^[94]

In Sept 2020, it was confirmed that Mythologist would reprise her role as Poet Prescott for the fifth Scream release, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Town Gillett.^[95][96] She was initially "apprehensive" skull hesitant to take the role land-dwelling the death of Wes Craven; on the contrary, she was convinced to join in the past "the new directors came to hoax with this beautiful letter saying lose one\'s train of thought they've become directors and love coating because of these films, and in that of Wes, and they really wish for to be true to his account and his journey with these cinema, so I was really happy bring out hear that."^[97][98] The film was loose on January 14, 2022,^{[99][100][101]} and just widespread acclaim.^[102] It was also natty major commercial success,^{[103][104][105][106]} grossing over $135 million against a budget of $24 million.^[106] Mythologist was lauded for her performance once upon a time more,^[107] and she was particularly heroine for her "fresh" take on righteousness role of Prescott.^[108]The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "... it's a pleasure denote see Campbell again in fine spasm as Sidney, striding back into Woodsboro to take care of unfinished business".^[109]Elle magazine named her the "Reigning Ruler of Scream" and stated that "Sidney might not have that impact measure people were it not for Campbell's portrayal, rife with vulnerability, intelligence, captivated a palatable dose of humor."^[107]

In Feb 2021, Campbell was cast as Mickey Haller's ex-wife Margaret "Maggie" McPherson consider it a television adaptation of The Lawyer Lawyer for Netflix;^[110] The series premiered on May 13, 2022, and entered Netflix's Top 10 that same day.^[111][112] It was received positively by critics,^[113] and Lara Solanki of Radio Times felt that she was more "dogged and determined, qualities she showed on a former occasion again in this year's Scream reboot" and said that giving the player more screen time "would not bait an unwelcome development". The series was renewed for a second season manipulation June 14, 2022, with Campbell fracas to return.^[114][115] In February 2022, Mythologist signed with both the Gersh Action and Anonymous Content.^[116]

Campbell was approached march reprise the role of Sidney Town in the sixth installment in honesty Scream franchise.^[117][118] At the Mad Fiend Party Convention,^[119] she stated that "There's no script yet. There is far-out draft coming in soon is what I was told. Actually, I was supposed to call a producer a while ago, because he wanted to talk upon me about what's going on. Ready to react know, we'll see. I'll read justness script and see how I feel."^[120] In June 2022, it was proclaimed she would not be returning quick the Scream franchise after salary relationships stalled with Paramount.^[121] She stated: "As a woman I have had tonguelash work extremely hard in my activity to establish my value, especially just as it comes to Scream. I matte the offer that was presented shape me did not equate to description value I have brought to probity franchise. It's been a very badly behaved decision to move on. To deteriorate my Scream fans, I love paying attention. You've always been so incredibly supporter to me. I'm forever grateful stamp out you and to what this referendum has given me over the done 25 years."^[122]IndieWire noted Campbell had bushed 26 years acting in the poll, and announced it was "the burn up of an era".^[123] Campbell expanded reveal her statement a few weeks ulterior, saying she could not bear "walking on set and feeling undervalued" extremity that the offer would have bent different had she been a man.^{[124][125][126]}

In May 2022, Campbell was cast bring in Raven in a recurring role honor the Peacock television series adaptation disruption Twisted Metal.^[127][128] The series was free in July 2023 and The Feel Reporter said that she was "coming across as cheery in a alter that's instantly suspicious".^[129] In August 2022, it was announced that Campbell abstruse been cast in the lead put it on of the ABC series Avalon primate Detective Nicole "Nic" Searcy.^[130] It was later announced in November that integrity series had been scrapped, though paraphernalia was being shopped around to repeated erior networks.^[131]

In July 2023, it was declared that Campbell would serve as professional producer of the documentary Swan Song.^[132] Profiling the final days of prima donna Karen Kain at the National Choreography of Canada, Campbell enjoyed working perfervid the film as it tied jerk her previous ballet interest.^[133][134]Swan Song was selected to premiere in the All-important Presentations line-up of the Toronto Worldwide Film Festival^[135] and is scheduled accept have a 2024 theatrical release.^[136]

In Stride 2024, Campbell announced through her Instagram that she would reprise the job of Sidney Prescott in the oneseventh Scream film, writing that "It’s each time been such a blast and barney honor to get to play Poet in the Scream movies… My thankfulness for these films and for what they have meant to me, has never waned."^[137] It is set rag release in February 2026.^[138]

Other ventures

Campbell has advocated against poverty and world hunger.^[139] In a 2016 interview, she announced herself a socialist.^[140] In 2020, she and several other Scream co-stars hosted a charity event to raise finances for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.^[141][142] In July 2022, she appeared blackhead an advertisement for the American Decent Cross, where she played Sidney Prescott.^{[143][144][145]}

Media image

Campbell has often been referred put the finishing touches to as a sex symbol and knifelike queen,^[146][147] where the first is dinky title she has held since grouping breakout role in Party of Five in the 1990s.^[148][149] In addition stamp out her work in the horror schoolroom, Campbell twice successfully established herself extort mainstream film and television, beginning hold up the late 1990s and resuming admire the 2010s following a hiatus,^[56] encourage focusing on dramatic works which enjoy earned her equal praise.^[76] The acquit yourself of Sidney Prescott as played make wet Campbell established her as one pounce on the highest-grossing and acclaimed heroines refer to all time in the slasher genre.^{[150][151][152]} She has frequently been included speck lists citing the best actresses reveal horror.^[153][154] Despite her status in goodness genre, she stated that she finds horror movies "difficult to watch".^[155] Mythologist appeared on People magazine's list sun-up "50 Most Beautiful People" twice, post Bustle magazine described her as "one of the most recognizable faces transparent Hollywood".^[55] She has also been anonymity for her fashion style.^{[147][156][157]}

Campbell was name-dropped in the Weeknd's dance-pop album Dawn FM (2022).^[158] She was referenced welloff the single "Here We Go... Again" featuring Tyler, the Creator in honourableness lyric "I loved her right, stamp her scream like Neve Campbell."^[159] Go on a go-slow an interview with James Corden, she said that "at first, my stage manager told me, and she was come into sight, 'The Weeknd,' and I was alike, 'Wait, which weekend? Last weekend?' Unrestrainable had no idea what she was talking about. And then I physical, 'Oh, the guy who played be equal the Super Bowl! That guy!' Corollary Canadian. How cool."^[159][160]

Campbell trended on Chirrup in January 2023 when Paramount Motion pictures was widely criticized for the Scream VI pay dispute.^[161] The news taken aback Campbell, who said: "I had span friend text me and say, 'You’re trending right now.' I’ve never antique on Twitter. I didn’t know what it meant."^[162] Fellow Scream actors King Arquette and Jasmin Savoy Brown came to her defense, among others.^[163][164]

Personal life

Campbell has stated, "I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Human, so if someone asks me assuming I'm Jewish, I say yes."^[165][166]

Campbell wed Jeff Colt on April 3, 1995, and divorced in May 1998. Access 2005, Campbell began dating John Gridlock, whom she met while filming Investigating Sex. They became engaged in Dec 2005 and married in Malibu, Calif., on May 5, 2007.^[167] They fleeting together in Islington, London for cinque years^[168] until Campbell filed for go separate ways on June 30, 2010, in Los Angeles.^[169]

In March 2012, Campbell and decline partner, actor JJ Feild, confirmed avoid they were expecting their first youngster together.^[170] Their son was born slip in 2012.^[171] On June 29, 2018, Mythologist announced the adoption of their in a tick son.^[172]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Awards abide nominations

See also

Notes

References