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Campbell was born in Guelph,
Ontario, Canada. Campbell's mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga
instructor and psychologist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her father,
Gerry Campbell, an immigrant to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland, taught high
school drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario—first at Westwood Secondary
School (Now Lincoln Alexander Secondary School) and later at Lorne Park
Secondary School. 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". Her first name
means "snow" in Italian and Portuguese; and "oasis" in Hebrew.
Campbell's parents divorced when she was two years old. 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 nine. 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 original goal was to make it professionally as a ballerina,
but accumulating injuries (shin splints, fallen arches, cracked ribs, a
bunion removed from her big toe, snapping hip syndrome, tendonitis,
bursitis, etc. and the final straw was her hair began falling out due to
advanced stress, leading to acupuncture to rectify the problem), she
finally left dance in favor of a full-time acting career. She attended
Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario.
Her first starring role was playing Daisy on the Canadian youth TV series
Catwalk from 1992 to 1994. She rose to wider fame outside of Canada after
being cast as Julia Salinger in the drama series Party of Five, in which
she starred from 1994 to 2000.
Although Campbell's first widely released film was 1996's The Craft, she
reached the height of her success to date when she appeared in the
successful Scream horror film trilogy, followed by 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, 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. 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.
On July 7, 2007, Campbell presented at the UK leg of Live Earth at Wembley
Stadium, London.
Campbell married Canadian actor Jeffrey Colt on April 3, 1995; they
divorced on May 8, 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. When Light proposed, he got
down on one knee and recited Shakespeare to Campbell. They married in
Malibu on May 5, 2007 Her father, Gerry Campbell "gave away" the bride. |
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Neve Campbell - Personal Quotes |
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(If she could change one feature about her, what would it be?): "I
have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they
would still be ugly. My toes are too big!"
("What was the most diificult time of her life?"): Probably when I
was at the National Ballet School of Canada, from the ages of nine
to fourteen. It's the best dance school in the world, but an
extremely competitive one, and there was a lot of pressure for a
child. It had an extremely back-stabbing mentality, and there was a
lot of favoritism. I wanted to be there because I wanted to be a
dancer. I love to dance, and that was my dream. When you're in that
school, it means you've beaten out two thousand people to get there,
so you're not exactly gonna quit. But I did, at fourteen, because I
basically had a nervous breakdown--I wouldn't have been able to
function had I stayed there. It was a huge decision. But I'd just
about given up on my dream of being a dancer and realized that I'd
completely lost myself and had no friends and was very unhappy in my
life and couldn't have continued if I'd stayed there.
(Asked "Was she injured during the filming of The Company (2003)):
"I broke my rib three days before going to Chicago. I did the
training for four and a half months getting ready to go and three
days before I went, when I was really nervous to join the company
and see where I stood, I broke my rib. We were learning "Funny
Valentine" and because we were learning from the tape, we were doing
one of the lifts wrong. He lifted me from under my ribs. So then I
had to go and do it with a broken rib".
(On her dance injuries): "I have got arthritis in my neck and my
hips. I have had surgery on my feet. I have had snapping hip
syndrome, tendonitis, shin splints, bursitis... I have had almost
every injury imaginable."
"TS has really taught me a lesson about judging people who are
different. Now when I see somebody do or say something I don't
understand, I try to look beyound appearances and ask myself what
makes that person tick - no pun intended. Think about it: When you
keep an open mind about things that seem unusual or strange, all
sorts of new understanding come to you. The world gets bigger, and
so do you." ["Celebrity Diary", Teen People Magazine, April 2000]
"When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I
had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning
experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as
a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive."
"I'm always sad I left dance. I'm just in my element when I'm in the
dance world. I'm so much more content in my heart when I'm sitting
on a dance floor in a studio. It sounds so cheesy but it's just my
home, it's where I grew up, I've been doing it since I was 6. It
makes so much more sense to me than anything else I do."
(On pointe work in ballet): "You'd better love it, or there's
absolutely no point. Unless, of course, you're a complete
masochist."
"Classical ballet is physically challenging. You don't have any
control over your career. You have to take instruction. You can't
talk back. You can't have an opinion. You have to have great
discipline and endurance. You have to tolerate pain. If you don't
make it within a five-year period after training, you won't get into
a company. You can't do it after you turn 35, because your body
hurts so much. If you do ballet, you have to do it all day, every
day."
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Neve Campbell - Filmography |
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The Death of Harry Tobin
(2008)
"Burn Up" (2008) (mini) TV Series
Agent Crush (2008) (voice) .... Cassie
Closing the Ring (2007) .... Marie
"Medium" .... Debra / ... (3 episodes, 2007)
- Everything Comes to a Head (2007) TV Episode .... P.D. McCall
- Heads Will Roll (2007) TV Episode .... Debra
- Head Games (2007) TV Episode .... Debra
I Really Hate My Job (2007) .... Abbie
Partition (2007) .... Margaret Stilwell
Relative Strangers (2006) .... Ellen Minola
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005) .... Miss Poppy
... aka Kifferwahn (Germany)
Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) .... Princess Elizabeth
When Will I Be Loved (2004) .... Vera Barrie
Blind Horizon (2003) .... Chloe Richards
The Company (2003) .... Ry
... aka The Company - Das Ensemble (Germany)
Lost Junction (2003) .... Missy Lofton
Last Call (2002) (TV) .... Frances Kroll
... aka Fitzgerald (USA)
Investigating Sex (2001) .... Alice
... aka Intimate Affairs (USA: new title)
... aka Investigating Sex - Auf der Suche nach dem perfekten
Orgasmus (Germany: DVD title)
"Party of Five" .... Julia Salinger (143 episodes, 1994-2000)
- All's Well... (2000) TV Episode .... Julia Salinger
- ...That Ends Well (2000) TV Episode .... Julia Salinger
- Falling Forward (2000) TV Episode .... Julia Salinger
- Taboo or Not Taboo (2000) TV Episode .... Julia Salinger
- Great Expectations (2000) TV Episode .... Julia Salinger
(138 more)
Scream 3 (2000) .... Sidney Prescott
Panic (2000) .... Sarah Cassidy
Drowning Mona (2000) .... Ellen Rash
Three to Tango (1999) .... Amy Post
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) (V) (voice) .... Adult Kiara
Hairshirt (1998) .... Renée Weber
... aka Too Smooth (USA: reissue title)
54 (1998) .... Julie Black
... aka Fifty-Four
Wild Things (1998) .... Suzie Marie Toller
... aka wildthings (USA: video box title)
Scream 2 (1997) .... Sidney Prescott
"Saturday Night Live" .... Host (1 episode, 1997)
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
- Neve Campbell/David Bowie (1997) TV Episode .... Host
Scream (1996/I) .... Sidney Prescott
The Craft (1996) .... Bonnie
The Canterville Ghost (1996) (TV) .... Virginia 'Ginny' Otis
"Mad TV" .... Julia Salinger (1 episode, 1995)
- Episode #1.6 (1995) TV Episode .... Julia Salinger
Love Child (1995) .... Deidre
"Aventures dans le Grand Nord" .... Nepeese (1 episode, 1994)
- Bari (1994) TV Episode .... Nepeese
"Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" .... Trish Collins (1 episode, 1994)
- Kundela (1994) TV Episode .... Trish Collins
"Are You Afraid of the Dark?" .... Nonnie Walker (1 episode, 1994)
- The Tale of the Dangerous Soup (1994) TV Episode .... Nonnie
Walker
The Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994) (TV) .... Jess Foy
... aka Janek: Forget-Me-Not Murders
I Know My Son Is Alive (1994) (TV) .... Beth
... aka Web of Deceit
Paint Cans (1994) .... Tristesse
The Passion of John Ruskin (1994) .... Ephemera/Effie
... aka Ruskin (Canada: English title)
The Dark (1994) .... Officer Jesse Donovan
"Catwalk" (1992) TV Series .... Daisy McKenzie (unknown episodes,
1992-1993)
"The Kids in the Hall" .... Laura Capelli (1 episode, 1992)
- Episode #3.13 (1992) TV Episode .... Laura Capelli
"My Secret Identity" .... Student (1 episode, 1991)
- Pirate Radio (1991) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Student |
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