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Neve Campbell
at the 2006 BAFTAs.
Born	Neve Adrianne Campbell October 3, 1973 (1973-10-03) (age 35) Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991-present
Spouse(s)	John Light (2007 - present) Jeff Colt (1995 - 1998; divorced)

Neve Adrianne Campbell (pronounced /ˈnɛv ˈkæmbəl/ "nev camble"; 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, playing the role of the teenager Julia Salinger. She subsequently appeared in leading roles in several Hollywood films, including Scream, The Craft, and Wild Things, and has since appeared in smaller parts and returned to stage roles.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Campbell was born in Guelph, Ontario. Campbell's mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga instructor and psychologist¹ from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her father, Gerry Campbell, an immigrant to Canada from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland,² taught high school drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario — first at Westwood Secondary School (now Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School) and later at Lorne Park Secondary School and now at Erindale Secondary School. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in the Netherlands and her paternal grandparents were also performers. Campbell is Roman Catholic, but also identifies as Jewish because of her mother's Sephardic Jewish ancestry, about which she has said: "I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes".³⁴

Campbell's parents divorced when she was two years old. She and brother Christian resided largely with their father (who received custody of the two),² with regular periods at their mother's home, until Neve was nine years old. At that time she moved into residence at the National Ballet School of Canada, training there and appearing in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.² Campbell moved from dancing into acting at the age of 15, when she performed in The Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto.²

Career

Neve's first starring role was Daisy in the Canadian youth TV series Catwalk, which she held from 1992 to 1994. She rose to fame outside Canada after being cast as Julia Salinger in the drama series Party of Five, in which she performed from 1994 to 2000.

Campbell's first widely released film was 1996's The Craft. She then had a starring role in the Scream horror film trilogy. Roger Ebert, in his review of Scream 3, wrote of Campbell, "The camera loves her. She could become a really big star and then giggle at clips from this film at her AFI tribute."^{citation needed}

Campbell also appeared in Wild Things and Three to Tango. In 1998, she was on People's "50 Most Beautiful People" list.

Following the last of the Scream series, Campbell appeared in several films that received a limited theatrical release but were well reviewed by critics, including the 2000 film Panic, in which she appeared 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 that film.

The independent film When Will I Be Loved, released in 2004, was praised by critic Roger Ebert⁵ but received only a brief and limited theatrical release. In Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2009 edition), the film critic describes it as an "Unlikable film ... crammed with coldhearted characters who are obsessed with big bucks, sleazy sex, and endless hustling."

In March 2006, Campbell made her West End theatre debut, in a version of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic theatre. Matthew Modine and Maximilian Schell also appeared in the play, which received mixed reviews. Resurrection Blues was directed by Robert Altman, with whom Campbell has previously worked in The Company.⁶ Later in 2006 Neve performed again in the West End in Love Song, alongside Cillian Murphy, Michael McKean, and Kristen Johnston, to mixed reviews.⁷

On July 7, 2007, Campbell presented at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley Stadium, London.

Personal life

Campbell married Canadian actor Jeff Colt on April 3, 1995. The couple, who met when he was a bartender at Toronto's Pantages Theatre, divorced on May 8, 1998. In 2005, Campbell began dating John Light, an English actor whom she met while filming the movie Investigating Sex. The couple became engaged in December 2005.⁸ They married in Malibu in May 2007.⁹

Campbell has appeared in campaign literature and videos for the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada and the Tourette Syndrome Association, a similar organization in the United States.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Nonnie	TV Series
1994	The Dark	Jesse Donovan
1996	The Craft	Bonnie
	Scream	Sidney Prescott	won Saturn Award
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	Voice Only
1999	Three to Tango	Amy Post
2000	Drowning Mona	Ellen Rash
	Panic	Sarah Cassidy
	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
	Churchill: The Hollywood Years	Princess Elizabeth
2005	Reefer Madness	Miss Poppy
2006	Relative Strangers	Ellen Minola
	Partition	Margaret Stilwell
2007	Closing the Ring	Marie
	Love Bites	Mina
	I Really Hate My Job	Waitress
2008	Agent Crush	Cassie (voice)
	Burn Up	Holly	Mini Series
2009	90210	Casey Kindley	TV Series; Announced, 5 Episodes
	Vivaldi	Norina
	The Philanthropist	Olivia Maidstone	TV Series, Series Regular

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Neve Campbell

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Neve Campbell

• Tracy, Kathleen. Neve Campbell. E C W Pr. ISBN 1-55022-401-8.  (Unauthorised biography)
• A page at the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada featuring Neve
• Neve Campbell at the Internet Movie Database
• Neve Campbell at TV.com
• CNN interview (January 13, 2004)
• IGN Films interview (January 5, 2004)
• E Online! interview (December, 1997)