Clea Duvall

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BIRTHDAY

September 25, 1977

RECENT CREDITS

Passengers (FILM) Oct. 24, 2008

Anamorph (FILM) Apr. 16, 2008

Two Weeks (FILM) Mar. 2, 2007

Zodiac (FILM) Mar. 2, 2007

The Grudge (FILM) Oct. 22, 2004

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BIOGRAPHY

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First making an impression on the collective filmgoing consciousness as the resident bad-ass of the teen horror flick The Faculty (1998), Clea Duvall has managed to stand out among the crowd of young actors who gained seemingly overnight fame during the late '90s. Strong-jawed and sharp-eyed, Duvall developed an interest in acting at an early age. Born in Los Angeles on September 25, 1977, she attended the Los Angeles High School of the Arts and got her professional start on television, making occasional appearances on a variety of shows including E.R. and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After minor work in a couple of independent films, Duvall nabbed her role in The Faculty, starring as a moody goth girl alongside such up-and-comers as Elijah Wood, Shawn Hatosy, and Josh Hartnett. The film was a fairly substantial box-office success, and in 1999 Duvall could be seen in no less than three more films. In The Astronaut's Wife she played Charlize Theron's sister, while Girl, Interrupted cast her as a resident of a mental hospital occupied by the likes of Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Duvall also starred as an unwilling patient of another kind of rehab in But I'm a Cheerleader: a comedy-satire about Megan (Natasha Lyonne), a high school cheerleader who is sent to a sort of straight rehab camp for gay teens, Duvall played a tattooed young lesbian who teaches Megan how to cheer for the other team.

~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

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'Girl, Interrupted's' treatment is only partially successful

Dec. 22, 1999

Based on Susanna Kaysen's account of being trapped in a mental institution in the late '60s, director James Mangold's "Girl, Interrupted" is a semi-involving tale of identity and belonging featuring a solid performance from Winona Ryder and a spirited, star-making turn from Angelina Jolie. Ryder stars as Susanna herself, an unhappy, upper-middle-class high school graduate uncer...

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TV Roundup: Ringwald, Tucci Return

Posted: Mar. 20, 2001

ROLE CALL: Pfeiffer, Penn and 'Sam I Am'

Posted: Dec. 6, 2000

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