Jessica Biel
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Ely, Minnesota
Jessica Biel rose to fame as the wholesome preacher's daughter on the WB television show 7th Heaven, then gained greater notoriety for trying to get herself kicked off the show via a risqué photo spread in the men's magazine Gear. Making such statements as, "Mary Camden is dead," the 17-year-old Biel indeed got out of her contract to pursue a movie career; when that floundered, she - amusingly - found herself reconsidering her haste and returned for guest spots on the program.Biel was born on March 3, 1982, in Ely, MN, then raised in Boulder, CO. She was first discovered at the 1994 IMTA Los Angeles Convention, which earned her a scholarship to Diane Hardin's Young Actors Space in Los Angeles. Teen print modeling followed, and in 1996, Biel began her run as Mary Camden on the Aaron Spelling-produced 7th Heaven. Shortly thereafter, she was cast as Peter Fonda's granddaughter in Victor Nunez's rich character study, Ulee's Gold (1997), and as Jonathan Taylor Thomas' love interest in I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998).But Biel grew tired of playing a good girl on television and tried to force the producers to fire her from 7th Heaven, claiming her pristine image was a factor that kept her from landing the role that went to Thora Birch in American Beauty (1999). When the producers would not release her from her contract, she posed on the cover of the March 2000 Gear under the headline "Fallen Angel." The images inside featured her sprawled topless on a bed and against a bathroom mirror, her hands providing insufficient cover in a manner that pushed even Gear's lax standards for showing skin. The issue become one of Gear's most popular ever, with terrific resale value on Ebay, and got Biel canned from the show.However, the controversy and exposure did not immediately improve her film career. Biel's first post-Gear role was as a bikini-wearing babe in the Freddie Prinze Jr. baseball movie Summer Catch (2001), but the film barely made a flicker at the box office after being bumped from its initial release date. Biel has since been making guest appearances in her initial Mary Camden role and has been cast in director Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction (2002). An ill-advised shortcut down the backroads of Texas found Biel and friends pursued by one of the silver screen's most notorious maniacs in the 2003 remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with supporting roles in David R. Ellis's intense pot-boiler Cellular and the vampire-slaying Wesley Snipes action fantasy Blade: Trinity serving well to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. While a blast into the clouds with Stealth provided innoffensive thrills for more forgiving movie-goers, few would stand up to defend Almost Famous director Cameron Crowe's saccharine Elizabethtown as even throwaway fun. In 2006, Biel traveled back in time to become the source of a decidedly supernatural mystery as the ill-fated love of a turn-of-the-centry Vienna magician portrayed by Edward Norton in director Neil Burger's The Illusionist. Biel began 2007 at a low ebb, as the romantic lead in the apocalyptic sci-fi thriller NEXT. As directed by journeyman Hollywood action stalwart Lee Tamahori (XXX: State of the Union), and adapted (loosely) from the Philip K. Dick story "The Golden Man," the picture stars Nicolas Cage as Cris, an issue-ridden psychic who foresees the nuclear destruction of Los Angeles. Biel plays the seer's tender-hearted lover, who spends her free time every week at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, teaching the children of the Havasupai Indian reservation. The film bombed unequivocally at the box office, reeling in only around $14 million worldwide in its first week.The actress next switched genres, unveiling her comic flair to audiences in the hotly-anticipated buddy comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007). The Universal farce (released in the States in July 2007) stars Adam Sandler and Hitch's Kevin James as, respectively, Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine, the bachelors of th
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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30% | Shock and Awe |
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— | 2018 |
13% | Spark: A Space Tail |
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$0.2M | 2017 |
8% | The Book Of Love |
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— | 2017 |
35% | A Kind of Murder |
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— | 2016 |
27% | Crazy About Tiffany's |
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— | 2016 |
43% | Bleeding Heart |
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— | 2015 |
9% | Accidental Love |
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— | 2015 |
37% | The Truth About Emanuel |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | JT: Reflections |
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— | 2013 |
4% | Playing for Keeps |
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$13.1M | 2012 |
60% | Hitchcock |
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$6.1M | 2012 |
41% | The Tall Man |
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— | 2012 |
31% | Total Recall |
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$58.9M | 2012 |
7% | New Year's Eve |
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$54.6M | 2011 |
49% | The A-Team |
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$77.3M | 2010 |
18% | Valentine's Day |
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$110.5M | 2010 |
23% | Planet 51 |
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$42.2M | 2009 |
52% | Easy Virtue |
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$2.6M | 2009 |
25% | Powder Blue |
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— | 2009 |
91% | Your Mommy Kills Animals |
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— | 2007 |
15% | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry |
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$119.8M | 2007 |
28% | Next |
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$18M | 2007 |
22% | Home of the Brave |
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— | 2006 |
73% | The Illusionist |
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$39.7M | 2006 |
14% | London |
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— | 2006 |
28% | Elizabethtown |
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$26.9M | 2005 |
12% | Stealth |
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$31.8M | 2005 |
25% | Blade: Trinity |
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$52.5M | 2004 |
55% | Cellular |
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$32.1M | 2004 |
37% | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
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$80.2M | 2003 |
43% | The Rules of Attraction |
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$6.5M | 2002 |
8% | Summer Catch |
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$19.1M | 2001 |
23% | I'll Be Home for Christmas |
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— | 1998 |
94% | Ulee's Gold |
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— | 1997 |
TV
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86% |
Cruel Summer
2021
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90% |
The Sinner
2017-2020
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71% |
Limetown
2019
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden
2015
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Pete the Cat
2018-2020
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No Score Yet |
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2015-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
2015
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41% |
Chelsea
2016-2017
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No Score Yet |
Today
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010-2018
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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95% |
New Girl
2011
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show
2007
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No Score Yet |
Late Show With David Letterman
1993-2015
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
7th Heaven
1996-2007
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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No Score Yet |
Trading Spaces
2000-2019
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Quotes from Jessica Biel's Characters
Lt. Kara Wade: | Just tell me you love me you pussy!. |
Lt. Kara Wade: | Just tell me you love me you pussy! |
May: | If you don't want to go back don't. |
May: | I heard from a private investigator...I think I want to meet her. |
Cris Johnson: | Did you hear the one about the Zen master who ordered a hot dog. |
Liz Cooper: | No. |
Cris Johnson: | He said he'd have one with everything. |
Melina: | That's your wife!? |
Douglas Quaid/Hauser: | I think we're separated. |
Douglas Quaid/Hauser: | It's safe to say we're separated. |
Melina: | I've been looking for you everywhere. |
John Whittaker: | Mother,this is my wife,Larita. |
Larita Huntington: | Mrs Whittaker, the pleasure is all mine! |
Veronica Whittaker: | Oh,you're American... |
Colonel Jim Whittaker: | And very welcome! |
Crown Prince Leopold: | I know you have been with him! |
Duchess Sophie von Teschen: | It has nothing to do with you. |
Crown Prince Leopold: | It has EVERYTHING to do with me! |
Eisenheim: | I always meant to return... I just... I kept thinking I'll find around the next corner... |
Duchess Sophie von Teschen: | What? |
Eisenheim: | A real mystery. I saw remarkable things but the only mystery I never solved was... why my heart couldn't let go of you. |
Julia Denning: | So you believe it too? |
Melina: | That was your wife? What a bitch! |
Larita Huntington: | You have no idea what it means to love someone so much that you will do anything for them. Even inject them with poison when they were too feeble to do it for themselves. |
Erin Hardesty: | I didn't go to Mexico to watch you get s**t-faced for four days. |
Kemper Hardesty: | That's what you do in Mexico! |
Callie Ferris: | You have CTV camera here inside? |
Diner Manager: | Here? um. No. |
Callie Ferris: | So, inside? |
Liz Cooper: | Uh. No. |
Lara: | No one knows anyone else, ever. |
Gammons: | Are they trying to shoot down that other drone? |
Carissa Sosa: | No....they're trying to fly that tank. |
Carissa Sosa: | No... they're trying to fly that tank. |
Erin Hardesty: | What's wrong with you fu**ing people? |
Sheriff Hoyt: | (smiles) - Nothing wrong with us. |
Sheriff Hoyt: | (smiles) Nothing wrong with us. |
Erin Hardesty: | (yells) - THAT'S NOT YOUR BABY!! |
Erin Hardesty: | (yells) THAT'S NOT YOUR BABY! |
Erin Hardesty: | Baby, will you please tell me that we did not go to Mexico to buy pot? |
Kemper Hardesty: | We did not go to Mexico to buy pot. |
Kara Monahan: | My closest relationship is with my Blackberry, Thank God it vibrates ! |
Carissa Sosa: | They are the best, and they specialize in the ridiculous. |