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Juliette Lewis endures as one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile actors. From the moment she first stunned audiences and critics alike with her Oscar®-nominated performance as Danielle Bowden in Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear, she has worked with some of the most revered and influential directors and filmmakers of all time, including Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, Kathryn Bigelow, Lasse Hallström, and Garry Marshall. Her powerful scenes alongside Robert De Niro in Cape Fear captured the quiet complexities of adolescence and earned Lewis nominations in the category of Best Supporting Actress at both the Academy® Awards and the Golden Globe® Awards. The auditorium sequence with De Niro remains one of cinema's classic scenes, securing a place in movie history for its tension and menace. Whether lending dramatic authenticity or a natural comedic flair to her roles, Lewis graces the screen with remarkable range as well as an original and captivating style.   Following her breakout in Cape Fear, Lewis has starred in a variety of blockbusters and critically acclaimed projects, Kalifornia, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Natural Born Killers —Stone's controversial media satire about two mass murderers who become legendary folk heroes. Her other credits include the Nora Ephron comedy Mixed Nutswith Steve Martin and Adam Sandler, Bigelow’s sci-fi action film Strange Days with Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett, the Gary Marshall-directed The Other Sister, Todd Phillips’s Old School with Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Will Ferrell, and the Robert Rodriguez-directed and Tarantino-penned vampire cult classic From Dusk Till Dawn with George Clooney and Harvey Keitel.  Lewis also made her stage debut in a West End revival of Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love. After a five-year hiatus from film to exclusively focus on her music career touring the world with her band Juliette & The Licks, Lewis announced her return to acting with a series of films. These included the comedy Whip It directed by Drew Barrymore, The Switch opposite Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, and Patrick Wilson, Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut Sympathy for Delicious costarring Orlando Bloom and Laura Linney, and the acclaimed indie-drama Conviction, which also starred Hilary Swank, Melissa Leo, and Sam Rockwell. Critics applauded Lewis’s performance in the latter with Time Magazine praising her “scene stealing moments” as a devious ex-girlfriend, while Entertainment Weekly raved, “Juliette Lewis reminds fans why we want her to run free forever.” The San Francisco Chronicle proclaimed, “her character work should be studied in schools. Just remarkable.” Juliette was also seen in August: Osage County, based on the Pulitzer Prize® and Tony®-Award winning play by Tracy Letts alongside an ensemble cast with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, and Ewan McGregor. In addition to her film career, Lewis has continued to add roles to her growing list of acclaimed television and series credits with Indiewire going as far as to christen 2022 “the year of Juliette Lewis.” She starred as Natalie in Showtime’s acclaimed hit drama Yellowjackets and was also seen in Peacock’s celebrated Queer As Folk reboot. Most recently, Juliette received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Or Anthology Series Or Movie for her work as Denise in Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales.  Lewis’s other television and series credits span her role in Mark Ruffalo’s Emmy Award-winning HBO limited series I Know This Much is True as well as co-starring with Jennifer Garner in HBO’s comedy Camping, as well as a starring role in the Mira Nair-directed HBO film Hysterical Blindness, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie. She secured a Daytime Emmy nomination for her role in Showtime’s My Louisiana Sky.   Lewis has also appeared as the face of several noteworthy brands such as Acne, BMW, Miu Miu, Rimowa, Warby Parker and more.