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3	Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981 in New York City, New York) is an American stage and film actress.
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5	Her film career has included both commercial and critical successes, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' (1999) to dark art house pictures such as ''The Business of Strangers'' (2001). She is also well known as playing the supporting character Nicky Parsons in ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' and her turn on ''Series/{{Dexter}}''.
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7	!!Filmography
8	* ''Series/{{Ghostwriter}}'' (1993-94) as Erica Dansby
9	* ''Series/ChicagoHope'' (1997) as Corey Sawicki
10	* ''Film/TheDevilsOwn'' (1997) as Bridget O'Meara
11	* ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' (1999) as Kat Stratford
12	* ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' (2000) as Ophelia
13	* ''Film/StateAndMain'' (2000) as Carla
14	* ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'' (2001) as Sara
15	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (2001) as Jenna Bush (uncredited)
16	* ''Film/{{O}}'' (2001) as Desi Brable
17	* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' as Nicole "Nicky" Parsons
18	** ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' (2002)
19	** ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' (2004)
20	** ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum'' (2007)
21	** ''Film/JasonBourne'' (2016)
22	** ''The Bourne Stuntacular'' (2020)
23	* ''Film/AGuyThing'' (2003) as Becky
24	* ''Film/MonaLisaSmile'' (2003) as Joan Brandwyn
25	* ''Film/ThePrinceAndMe'' (2004) as Paige Morgan
26	* ''Film/{{The Omen\|2006}}'' (2006) as Katherine Torno
27	* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' (2010) as Lumen Ann Pierce
28	* ''Film/ItsADisaster'' (2012) as Tracy
29	* ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' (2012) as Veronica
30	* ''Series/TheMindyProject'' (2014-15) as Jessica Lieberstein
31	* ''Film/{{Hustlers}}'' (2019) as Elizabeth
32	* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsTheNineRealms'' (2021-present) as Olivia Kullersen (voice)
33	* ''Film/OrphanFirstKill'' (2022) as Tricia Albright
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35	!!Tropes associated with her:
36	* CareerResurrection: As noted below, she vanished from the limelight for ages. But she gradually won critics back with her Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated role on ''{{Series/Dexter}}'', being a OneSceneWonder in the smash hit ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' and reprising her role as Nicky Parsons in ''Film/JasonBourne''.
37	* CastingGag: She's dated a Danish prince in both ''Hamlet'' and ''Film/ThePrinceAndMe''.
38	* CreatorBreakdown: Confessed that this happened while filming ''{{Series/Dexter}}'', where some of the things her character did made it difficult for her to sleep.
39	* DawsonCasting:
40	** Averted with Kat Stratford of ''Ten Things I Hate About You'', as Julia was only eighteen. It was the same with ''O'' as she was eighteen when the scenes were filmed, but twenty when the movie was finally released.
41	** She did however play a teenager in ''State and Main'' when she was twenty.
42	* DyeingForYourArt: Dyed her hair a lighter shade of blonde for ''Film/MonaLisaSmile''.
43	* HollywoodHypeMachine: Julia was poised to become a superstar in the 2000s after the successes of ''Ten Things I Hate About You'' and ''Film/SaveTheLastDance'', as well as her association with ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' and its sequels. But a series of questionable projects - ''The Prince & Me'', ''A Guy Thing'' and the remake of ''Film/TheOmen'' - caused critics to sour towards her and she found herself disappearing from the spotlight.
44	* RomanceOnTheSet: She and her ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' co-star Creator/HeathLedger were briefly involved.
45	* StarMakingRole: ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'''s success turned her into a star.
46	* TypeCasting: She's done three movies where she plays a modernized Shakespearian heroine:
47	** ''Film/TenThingsIHateAboutYou'' from ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew''.
48	** ''Film/{{O}}'' from ''{{Theatre/Othello}}''.
49	** ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'' set in modern New York City.
50	** She also got to play Viola in ''Theatre/TwelfthNight''.
51	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: She held the rights to adapt ''Literature/TheBellJar'' for years but couldn't get the script right, and eventually gave up on the project.

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