Juliette Lewis

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Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress and singer.


Golden Globe
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She gained fame for her role in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of the thriller Cape Fear for which she was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. This followed with major roles in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, Strange Days, The Evening Star, Kalifornia, From Dusk till Dawn, and The Other Sister. Her work in television has resulted in two Emmy nominations.

Lewis launched a career as a singer and musician, leading the American rock band, Juliette and the Licks, until 2009 when she launched a solo career.
Lewis appeared in The Wonder Years as Wayne’s girlfriend in Episodes 24, 34 and 36. She also played Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. 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 1991. Over the next few years, she appeared in Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives, Peter Medak’s Romeo Is Bleeding, and opposite Brad Pitt in Kalifornia. In 1993, she acted alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp in the drama film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. She played Mallory Knox in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers. She played a rock singer in the film Strange Days, doing her own singing on covers of two songs written by PJ Harvey, revealing her musical ability.


Emmy nomination

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.

She starred in the 2004 film Starsky & Hutch, playing the role of Kitty, Reese Feldman’s girlfriend.


Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV

Lewis appeared in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV, providing the voice of “Juliette”, the host of fictional radio station “Radio Broker” (on which appears the Juliette and the Licks song ‘Inside the Cage)’. She appeared in a GAP commercial in which she was dancing with Daft Punk to the tune of the song “Digital Love”. She also appeared in the movie Renegade with Vincent Cassel, a Jan Kounen film. In 2012 she starred in the short-lived series The Firm, on NBC as Tammy, assistant to lead character Mitch McDeere (Josh Lucas).

She reprised her role as Audrey Griswold in 2012 in a series of Old Navy holiday commercials featuring the Griswold family. In 2015, she had a small role in the television series Wayward Pines, a psychological thriller by M. Night Shyamalan.
Lewis launched a career as a solo singer and musician, leading American rock band Juliette and the Licks until 2009 when she went solo and released the album entitled Terra Incognita.


hottest women of rock music list

Lewis features on the track “Bad Brother” by the band The Infidels, from The Crow: Salvation Soundtrack album, which was released on April 2000. Lewis has also appeared on three tracks by Electronic Music group The Prodigy’s 2004 CD Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (“Spitfire”, “Get Up Get Off”, and “Hot Ride”). In 2006, Blender magazine included her in their hottest women of rock music list.

In 2009, Lewis performed at the Przystanek Woodstock in Poland. In 2010, she played at the Rock for People festival in the Czech Republic. In December 2010, Lewis hosted the game television show Never Mind the Buzzcocks and repeated in January 2012.

In 2013, Lewis contributed backing vocals to the track, “Saint of Impossible Causes”, on Joseph Arthur’s tenth studio album, The Ballad of Boogie Christ. She then appeared in the music video for “City of Angels” by Thirty Seconds to Mars.

In 2015, Lewis contributed vocals to the song “Stickup” by Karma Fields & Morten, which was released on Monstercat.

Lewis has supported Little Kids Rock, a US nonprofit organization that works to restore and revitalize music education in disadvantaged U.S. public schools, by painting a Fender Strat guitar and donating it to an auction to raise money for the organization.

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