Julia O'Hara Stiles was born on March 28, 1981 in New York City, USA. She is an American stage and screen actress.

After two appearances as the computer punk Erica Dansby on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. She has been seen in two made-for-TV movies: in Before Women Had Wings (1997) on CBS.

Stiles' first film was a non-speaking part in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996), with Claire Danes and Jude Law. She also had small roles as Harrison Ford's daughter in Alan J. Pakula's The Devil's Own (1997) and in M. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake (1998). Her first lead was in Wicked (1998).

She also appeared in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Down to You (2000), in Michael Almerayda's Hamlet (2000), with Ethan Hawke and opposite Mekhi Phifer in Tim Blake Nelson's O (2001), a version of Othello.

She has an effect on people as operative Nicolette Parsons in The Bourne Identity (2002) and its sequels The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007).

In 2005, Stiles was cast opposite her Hamlet co-star Liev Schreiber in The Omen, a remake of the 1976 horror film.

Stiles has dated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt (in 1999) and Joshua Jackson (in 2000).

Filmography

• The Bell Jar (2008)
• Cry of the Owl (2009)
• Gospel Hill (2008)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
• The Omen (2006)
• A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)
• Edmond (2005)
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
• The Prince & Me (2004)
• Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
• Carolina (2003)
• A Guy Thing (2003)
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• O (2001)
• "Saturday Night Live" (1 episode, 2001)
• The Business of Strangers (2001)
• Save the Last Dance (2001)
• State and Main (2000)
• Hamlet (2000)
• Down to You (2000)
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
• The '60s (1999) (TV)
• Wide Awake (1998)
• Wicked (1998)
• Before Women Had Wings (1997) (TV)
• The Devil's Own (1997)
• "Chicago Hope" (1 episode, 1997)
• "Promised Land" (1 episode, 1996)
• I Love You, I Love You Not (1996)
• "Ghostwriter" (2 episodes, 1993-1994)

Awards

• MTV Movie Award Best Kiss "Save the Last Dance" 2001
• Florida Film Critics Circle Award Best Ensemble "State and Main" 2000
• MTV Movie Award Breakthrough Female Performance "10 Things I Hate About You" 2000
• Online Film Critics Society Award Best Ensemble "State and Main" 2000
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Actress Award "Wicked" 1998