Juliette Lake Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her portrayals of offbeat characters, often in films with dark themes. Lewis became an "it girl" of American cinema in the early 1990s, appearing in various independent and arthouse films. Her accolades include a Pasinetti Award, one Academy Award nomination, one Golden Globe nomination, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
The daughter of character actor Geoffrey Lewis, Lewis began her career in television at age 14 before being cast in her first major film role as Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989). She garnered international notice for her role in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear (1991), which saw Lewis nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the Golden Globe in the same category.
Following the success of Cape Fear, Lewis had a supporting role in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992), followed by the thriller Kalifornia (1993) in which she portrayed a childlike woman whose boyfriend is a serial killer. She appeared in the drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape (also 1993), playing a young drifter. Lewis gained further notice for her lead role as Mallory Knox in Oliver Stone's controversial satirical crime film Natural Born Killers (1994), which earned her the Pasinetti Award for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. She subsequently starred in Kathryn Bigelow's science fiction film Strange Days (1995), and Robert Rodriguez's vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). In 1999, Lewis had a leading role in the drama The Other Sister as a woman with mental disabilities.
The 2000s saw Lewis appearing in a series of supporting roles in independent features and studio films, and in 2003 she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role in Hysterical Blindness (2002). She went on to appear in supporting parts in such comedies as Old School (2003) and Starsky & Hutch (2004), and embarked on a musical career in 2003, forming the rock band Juliette and the Licks; in 2009, Lewis began releasing material as a solo artist. Subsequent film roles include the sports comedy Whip It (2009), the biographical crime film Conviction (2010), an American romantic comedy The Switch (2010) and the drama August: Osage County (2013). Starting in the later 2010s, Lewis worked more frequently in television, appearing in lead roles on the series The Firm (2012), Wayward Pines (2015), Secrets and Lies (2015–2016), The Act (2019), and Yellowjackets (2021).
Gender
Female
Birthday
1973-06-21
Place of birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Natural Born Killers
1994
7.06
Strange Days
1995
7.00
Romeo Is Bleeding
1993
6.29
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
7.66
Cape Fear
1991
7.26
The Way of the Gun
2000
6.34
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996
7.03
Renegade
2004
4.80
Enough
2002
6.66
The Basketball Diaries
1995
7.40
Kalifornia
1993
6.60
Too Young to Die
1990
5.40
The Evening Star
1996
5.90
Daltry Calhoun
2005
5.10
Whip It
2009
6.70
Grilled
2006
5.00
Mixed Nuts
1994
5.40
Old School
2003
6.59
My Stepmother Is an Alien
1988
5.69
Cold Creek Manor
2003
5.40
The Thicket
2024
6.42
Starsky & Hutch
2004
5.81
That Night
1992
6.40
Catch and Release
2006
5.90
Picture Claire
2001
5.50
Aurora Borealis
2005
6.52
Husbands and Wives
1992
7.02
Assembling Armitage
2002
0.00
The Switch
2010
6.22
Due Date
2010
6.38
Full Tilt Boogie
1998
6.48
Metropia
2009
6.07
Hysterical Blindness
2002
6.00
Conviction
2010
7.10
The Other Sister
1999
6.40
The Darwin Awards
2006
5.60
Meet the Hollowheads
1989
6.00
The 4th Floor
1999
5.70
Crooked Hearts
1991
5.80
My Louisiana Sky
2001
6.50
Hick
2012
5.70
Sympathy for Delicious
2010
5.80
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001
7.30
Bronco Billy
1980
6.30
August: Osage County
2013
6.85
Some Girl
1998
5.10
Open Road
2013
5.10
Kelly & Cal
2014
6.30
Hellion
2014
5.80
Music
2021
5.40
Gaudi Afternoon
2001
5.00
Jem and the Holograms
2015
5.50
The Runnin' Kind
1989
0.00
Opus
2025
5.31
Chasing Freedom
2004
8.00
Lips Like Sugar
0.00
Nerve
2016
7.02
Future Relic 03
2015
10.00
Room to Rent
2001
6.40
DreamQuil
0.00
Hard Lovin' Woman
2016
7.30
The Second Sound Barrier
2016
0.00
Anthem of a Teenage Prophet
2019
6.50
Back Roads
2019
6.00
Ma
2019
5.82
Dreamland
2019
5.20
A Million Little Pieces
2019
6.19
Foreverland
2011
6.50
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
5.80
Mayday
2021
5.00
Home Fires
1987
10.00
By Design
2025
0.00
The Trip
0.00
Scorsese's Women
2014
0.00