| Biography 
Juliette Lewis was born on June 21, 1973 in Los Angeles as  daughter
  of  actor  Geoffrey  Lewis  -  appeared  in many of Clint Eastwood's
  films- and graphic designer Glenis Batley. She has 11  siblings  and
  half-siblings.  Even  at  the  age  of seven Juliette recognized she
  wanted to become an  actress.  She  began  her  professional  acting
  career  at  age  of  12.  As  a  precocious  teen she became legally
  emancipated at the age  of  14  in  order  to  gain  exemption  from
  child-labor  laws, which mandate that child actors work no more than
  five hours a day on school days and that they  be  supervised  by  a
  guardian.  Lewis  dropped  out of high school at 15 and subsequently
  passed the  equivalency  exam  with  the  help  of  a  tutor.  While
  adequate  in elementary school, she began failing her courses in the
  seventh grade because she did  not  like  the  'whole  format'.  "If
  you're  forced  to  study,  you're not going to learn." Though she's
  always lived responsibly she admitted to some wild  years,  she  was
  even  arrested of being underage - 15 - in an underground disco. The
  mugshot she got from the  policeman  now  hangs  posterized  in  her
  house.  After  leaving  school,  Lewis  moved to Hollywood where she
  lived with friend Karen Black for a few months  before  moving  into
  an  apartment  with  one  of  her friends. She had several roles, in
  1987 she appeared in 'Home Fires' as Mary and  as  Kate  Ferrel  the
  13-year  old  daughter  of widower/architect who marries his Central
  American housekeeper, an illegal alien, in the poorly  received  ABC
  sitcom  'I  Married  Dora'.  She  played  in  'Christmas  Vacation',
  however the first chance to demonstrate her talent  was  'Too  Young
  to  Die?', based on the true story of Amanda Sue Bradley, a sexually
  abused runaway teen  who  was  the  first  minor  to  receive  death
  penalty.  That  role  not only helped her land her co-star Brad Pitt
  (they broke up in 1993, after a nearly four year  relationship),  it
  also  led  to  the role as the narcoleptic sister in the quirky film
  "Crooked Hearts". But more importantly, it grabbed the attention  of
  director  Martin  Scorsese  and actor Robert De Niro, so she got the
  role of Danielle Bowden in 'Cape Fear'. For her fascinating play  at
  the  age  of  17  she  was  nominated for both the Academy Award and
  Golden Globe. Among  the  films  followed  'Cape  Fear'  were  Woddy
  Allen's  'Husbands and Wives', 'Romeo Is Bleeding', 'Kalifornia' and
  'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' co-starring Johnny Depp  and  Leonardo
  DiCaprio.  After playing Gracie in Nora Ephron's comedy 'Mixed Nuts'
  she made another hit  success  as  Mallory  Knox  in  'Natural  Born
  Killers'  in 1994. in 1996 she played Kate Fuller in 'From Dusk Till
  Dawn' co-starring Quentin Tarantino and George  Clooney.  Juliette's
  hobbies  are  collecting  antique clothing and walking around with a
  tape recorder documenting everyday moments in an effort  to  capture
  reality  for  future  use in her film career. She is a member of the
  Church of Scientology and listed as one  of  twelve  "Promising  New
  Actors  of  1991"  in  John  Willis'  Screen  World, Vol. 43. Fox N.
  Barnley
 Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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