Julia Stiles

MTV profiled her in its Diary series in 2003 and she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher in the spring of 2004. For Washington State symbols (like its state bird and state flower), see Washington State symbols. Bush's daughter Jenna. Washington also ranked second in the nation in grapes (all varieties taken together), apricots, asparagus (over a third of the country's production) and green peas for processing; third in the nation for wheat, prunes and plums, summer dry onions, trout and butter; fourth in barley and peaches; and fifth in cranberries and strawberries. She returned to Saturday Night Live on May 5 in a cameo as President George W. production), hops (74.4%), spearmint oil (also 74.4%), wrinkled seed peas (65.6%), apples (60.2%), Concord grapes (51.8%), sweet cherries (48%), pears (44.9%), lentils (41.9%), peppermint oil (35.2%), carrots for processing (34.5%), tart cherries (32.8%), Niagara grapes (32.4%) and sweet corn for processing (29.2%). On March 17, 2001, Stiles hosted Saturday Night Live and eight days later introduced a music nominee at the 73rd Academy Awards. In 2002 Washington ranked first in the nation in production of raspberries (87.8% of total U.S.

Stiles also played a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant and runs away from her unforgiving father (Bill Smitrovich) in NBC's miniseries The '60's (1999), a film Caryn James dismissed as "conspicuously idiotic." Stiles was the public face of the film, with NBC using her face, painted with a peace sign and the American flag, both in its advertising and on the cover of the soundtrack album. The total value of its crops was $3.2 billion, the 8th highest. Marcia Ross, the film's casting director, told Jeffrey Ressner "she projects an intelligent depth, she's not girlish, and she'll easily grow into adult roles.". For 2001, the total value of Washington's agricultural products was $5.4 billion, the 12th highest in the country. In Before Women Had Wings (1997) on CBS, she played opposite Ellen Burstyn and Oprah Winfrey in an adaptation of the novel by Connie May Fowler. (The following figures are from the Washington State Office of Financial Management (http://www.ofm.wa.gov/databook/pdf/nt14.pdf) and the Washington Agricultural Statistics Service (http://www.nass.usda.gov/wa/ssoinfo.htm).). She has been seen in two made-for-TV movies. Washington is a leading agricultural state.

After two appearances on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. Significant amounts of trade with Asia pass through the ports of the Puget Sound. Stiles' work on television has been more limited. The state has significant amounts of hydroelectric power generation. Stiles told Leslie Goober that she was very similar to the character, Paige Morgan, but critic Scott Foundas said while she was, as always, "irrepressibly engaging" the film was a "strange career choice for Stiles." This echoed criticism in reviews of A Guy Thing (2003), a romantic comedy with Jason Lee and Selma Blair; Dennis Harvey wrote that Stiles was "wasted," and Stephen Holden called her "a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally.". Significant business within the state include the design and manufacture of jet aircraft (Boeing), computer software development (Microsoft), electronics, biotechnology, aluminum production, lumber and wood products, mining, and tourism. Stiles played a Wisconsin co-ed, with dreams of becoming a doctor, who is swept off her feet by a Danish prince in The Prince and Me (2004), directed by Martha Coolidge. The per capita income was $33,332.

Stephen Holden referred to her as one of the cinema's "brightest young stars," but the film met with generally unfavorable reviews. The 2003 total gross state product for Washington was $244 billion, placing it 11th in the nation. Her next leading role was in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) as Joan, a student at Wellesley College in 1953, whose art professor (Julia Roberts) encourages her to pursue a career in law rather than becoming a wife and mother. See also List of cities in Washington State, List of towns in Washington State and Washington city government. Aimee Agresti quoted producer Lynda Obst as saying Stiles was turning into the next Meryl Streep. The three largest Protestant denominations in Washington: Lutheran (8% of the total state population), Baptist (7%), Methodist (6%). Stiles also had small roles as a CIA operative in The Bourne Identity (2002) and its sequel The Bourne Supremacy (2004). The religious affiliations of the citizens of Washington are:.

She has an effect on people," said Channing. Females made up approximately 50.2% of the population. Channing was impressed by her co-star: "In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost feral, something that can make people uneasy. 6.7% of Washington's population were reported as under 5, 25.7% under 18, and 11.2% were 65 or older. Stiles also played opposite Stockard Channing in the dark art house film The Business of Strangers (2001) as a conniving underling who exacts revenge on her cold boss. The five largest ancestry groups in Washington are German (18.7%), English (12%), Irish (11.4%), Norwegian (6.2%) and Mexican (5.6%). In David Mamet's State and Main (2000), about a film shooting on location in a small town in Vermont, she played a teenage girl who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a weakness for young girls. The racial makeup of the state is:.

She told Rolling Stone that despite rumors, she did all her own dancing in the film, though the way the film was shot and edited made it appear otherwise. Census Bureau, as of 2003, Washington's population was estimated at 6,131,445 people. Rolling Stone pronounced her "the coolest co-ed", putting her on the cover of its April 12, 2001 issue. According to the U.S. The role won her two more MTV awards for "Best Kiss" and "Best Female Performance", and a Teen Choice Award for best fight scene for her battle with Bianca Lawson. A fuller list of Washington state's islands appears here. At her new, nearly all-black school, she falls in love with Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip-hop dance steps that get her into The Juilliard School. See also Central Washington, Columbia River Plateau, Eastern Washington, Inland Empire, Kitsap Peninsula, Palouse, Western Washington..

Her next commercial success was in Save the Last Dance (2001), as an aspiring ballerina forced to leave her small town in downstate Illinois to live with her struggling musician father in Chicago after her mother is killed. Hadley Bridge over Lake Washington, and the Hood Canal Bridge connecting the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas. Neither was a great success; O had been subjected to many delays and a change of distributors and Hamlet was an art house film shot on a minimal budget. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Homer M. The second was playing Ophelia in Michael Almerayda's Hamlet (2000), with Ethan Hawke in the lead. Washington is also notable for being home to four of the five longest floating bridges in the world: the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Lacey V. The first was playing the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer in the title role, in Tim Blake Nelson's O (2001), Othello set in a high school. Mount Rainier, the highest mountain in the state, appears to "float" on the horizon southeast of Seattle and Tacoma on clear days. The eastern side of the state can be divided into two regions: the Okanogan Highlands and the Columbia River Basin.

She subsequently appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations. Snow-covered peaks tower above the foothills and lowlands around them. a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry. The deep forests of the Olympic Peninsula are among the rainiest places in the world and the only rainforests in the continental United States, but the flat semi-desert that lies east of the Cascade Range stretches for long distances without a single tree. Her next starring role was in Down to You, which was heavily panned by critics but was a financial success, and earned Stiles and her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. Washington is a land of contrasts. Adina Hoffman praised her as "a young, serious looking Diane Lane" and Martin Hoyle said Stiles played Kat "with bloody-minded independent charm from the beginning with hints of wistfulness beneath the determination.". Puget Sound's many islands are served by one of the largest state ferry fleet in the world.

Foreign critics applauded her work as well. Its coastal location and Puget Sound harbors give it a leading role in trade with Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Rim. She won an MTV Movie Award for "Breakthrough Female Performance" for the role, and the Chicago Film Critics voted her the most promising new actress of the year. High mountains rise above evergreen forests and sparkling coastal waters. The role that made her a star was Kat Stratford, opposite Heath Ledger, in Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in a Seattle high school. It is famous for scenery of breathtaking beauty and sharp contrasts. and went direct-to-video. Washington is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon to the south (the Columbia River forming most of this border), Idaho to the east and British Columbia, Canada to the north.

Joe Balthai wrote she was "the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival" and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the "discovery of the fest," but the film was not commercially released in the U.S. Rossi stated he wouldn't contest, and the controversy ended. Her first lead was in Wicked (1998), playing a teenage girl who murders her mother so she can have her father all to herself. The election was contested by the Washington State Republican Party. (http://www.wsrp.org), however on June 5th, 2005, Chelan County Judge John Bridges ruled against the Republicans. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake. Gregoire ended up winning this count by 129 votes and was inauguarated on January 12, 2005. Pakula's The Devil's Own (1997) and in M. However, the Democrats requested a final hand count of the votes.

She also had small roles as Harrison Ford's daughter in Alan J. Due to the small margin of victory, a machine recount (required by law) took place and, by a margin of only 42 votes out of more than 2.8 million cast, Rossi won again. Stiles' first film was a non-speaking part in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) with Claire Danes and Jude Law. In 2004 Washington's gubernatorial race was so close that the Secretary of State certified Republican candidate Dino Rossi as governor-elect almost a month after the polls had closed, beating out the Democratic candidate Christine Gregoire by just over two hundred votes. In the spring of 2004, she made her London stage debut opposite Aaron Eckhart in a revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre. This eruption flattened the forests for many kilometers, killed 57 people, flooded the Columbia River and its tributaries with ash and mud and blanketed large parts of Washington in ash, making day look like night. Reviewing the production, Ben Brantley of The New York Times saluted Stiles as "the thinking teenagers' movie goddess" who put him in mind of a "young Jane Fonda". Helens exploded outward, destroying a large part of the top of the volcano.

She graduated to adult roles by performing in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and, in the summer of 2002, appeared as Viola, the lead role in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night with Jimmy Smits. In 1980, following a period of heavy tremors and eruptions, the northeast face of Mount St. Stiles started acting at age eleven, performing with New York's La MaMa Theatre Company, securing work by submitting photographs of herself in costume to the company and asking that she be kept in mind for juvenile roles [6] (http://www.juliastiles.net/theater.html). In eastern Washington the Hanford Works atomic energy plant was opened in 1943 and played a major role in the construction of the nation's atomic bombs. The actress has described herself as a feminist and wrote on the subject in The Guardian [5] (http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1240843,00.html):. During World War II the Puget Sound area became a focus for war industries with the Boeing Company producing many of the nation's heavy bombers and ports in Seattle, Bremerton and Tacoma available for the manufacturing of ships for the war effort. Stiles has also worked for Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica [2] (http://www.habitat.org/newsroom/2000archive/1insitedoc004229.htm), and has worked with Amnesty International to try and raise awareness of the harsh conditions of immigration detention of unaccompanied juveniles; Marie Claire magazine, in January 2004, featured Stiles' trip to see conditions at the Berks County Youth Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania [3] (http://www.amnestyusa.org/artistsforamnesty/feb2004.html) [4] (http://www.amnestyusa.org/artistsforamnesty/july2004.html). This culminated in 1941 with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest in the United States.

Stiles is a Democrat who supported John Kerry's candidacy for President of the United States [1] (http://www.juliastiles.net/news.html#), and her official site, which her mother helps to maintain, provides a link to Moveon.org. During the depression era a series of hydroelectric dams were constructed along the Columbia river as part of a project to increase the production of electricity. She attended a Quaker school in Manhattan and is an English major at Columbia University in New York City, though she has several times interrupted her studies to pursue her film career (she is graduating in May 2005, five years after entering College). The region around eastern Puget Sound developed heavy industry during the period including World War I and World War II and the Boeing company became an established icon in the area. Julia Stiles was born the eldest of the three children (two daughters and a son) of John O'Hara, a teacher and businessman, and Judith Stiles, a potter. Seattle was the primary port for trade with Alaska and the rest of the country and for a time possessed a large ship-building industry. When Stiles isn't working, she actively supports a variety of progressive and liberal issues. For a long period Tacoma was noted for its large smelters where gold, silver, copper and lead ores were treated.

After beginning her theater career in small parts, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet; her film career has been both a commercial and critical success, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to dark art house pictures such as The Business of Strangers (2001). One city in particular, Aberdeen, had the distinction of being "the roughest town west of the Mississippi" due to excessive gambling, violence, extreme drug use and prostitution (the city itself changed very little over the years and remained off-limits to military personnel well into the early 1980's). Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981 in New York City) is an American stage and screen actress. By the turn of the 20th century the state of Washington was one of dangerous repute in the minds of many Americans. Undisputably as "wild" as the rest of the wild west, the public image of Washington merely replaced cowboys with lumberjacks, and desert with forestland. [7] (http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1240843,00.html) (Mona Lisa Smile, Oleanna and feminism). Other industries that developed in the state include fishing, salmon canning and mining. June 17, 2004. The heavy rainfall to the west of the Cascade Range produced dense forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shipping of lumber products, particularly the Douglas fir.

"Who's afraid of the 1950s?" The Guardian (London). In eastern Washington the Yakima Valley became known for its apple orchards while the growth of wheat using dry-farming techniques became particularly productive. Julia Stiles. Early prominent industries in the state included agriculture and lumber. (General material). Washington became the 42^nd state in the United States on November 11, 1889. 74-7. During that same year Washington Territory was formed from part of Oregon Territory.

February 2003. In 1853 the Northern Pacific railroad line reached Puget Sound, linking the region to the other states. 2. The first settlement was New Market (now known as Tumwater) in 1846. 51, n. Due to the migration along the Oregon Trail, many settlers wandered north to what is now Washington State and settled the Puget Sound area. v. that lasted until June 15, 1846 when Britain ceded their claims to this land with the Treaty of Oregon.

YM. This began a period of disputed joint-occupancy by Britain and the U.S. "No one can shut me up". In 1819 Spain ceded their original claims to this territory to the United States. Julia Stiles. In 1805 the Lewis and Clark expedition entered the state on October 10. (General material). Captain Robert Gray (for whom Grays Harbor county is named) then discovered the mouth of the Columbia river and, beginning in 1792, he established trade in Sea Otter pelts.

112-5. The Spanish Nootka Concession of 1790 opened the northwest territory to explorers and trappers from other nations, most notably Britain and then the United States. April 2004. Further explorations of the straits were performed by Spanish explorers Manuel Quimper in 1790 and Francisco Eliza in 1791, then by British Captain George Vancouver in 1792. 7, n. 3. Barkley. v. In 1778, British explorer Captain James Cook sighted Cape Flattery, at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, but the straits would not be explored until 1789 by Captain Charles W.

Teen People. They claimed all the coastal lands up to the Russian possessions in the north for Spain. "Julia Stiles gets real". The first European record of a landing on the Washington coast was by Spanish Captain Don Bruno de Heceta in 1775 on board the Santiago, part of a two-ship flotilla with the Sonora. Smith. In the east, nomadic tribes travelled the land and missionaries such as the Whitmans settled there. Jennifer L. Prominent among their industries were salmon fishing and whale hunting.

(General material, Sundance). Today, they are most notable for their totem poles and their ornately carved canoes and masks. April 12, 1999. Prior to the arrival of explorers from Europe, this region of the Pacific Coast had many established tribes of Native Americans, each with its own unique culture. 14. The battleship USS Washington was named originally for President Washington, but was later renamed in honor of the state. 153, n. Washington is the only state named after a president, which was George Washington.

v. To avoid confusion, the capital is often called simply D.C., and the state often called Washington State. Time. It should not be confused with Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. "10 Things About Her: Julia Stiles' career is a class in teen stardom". As of the 2000 census, the state population was approximately 5.9 million and the state work force numbered about 3.1 million. Residents are called "Washingtonians" (emphasis on the third syllable, which rhymes with bone). Jeffrey Ressner. The state capital is Olympia and the largest city in Washington is Seattle.

(10 Things). Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. 11. List of Music Artists from Washington State. July 9, 1999. Washington State Park System. The Independent (London). Music of Washington.

"Shakespeare goes to the prom". Bellingham. Charlotte O'Sullivan. Port Townsend. (General material). Bremerton. 415-7. Yakima.

Detroit, Michigan: Gale, 2002. Wenatchee. In Newsmakers 2002. Walla Walla. "Julia Stiles". Tri-Cities. Sarah Partin. Everett.

(General material). Vancouver. January 2003. 92-3, 155. Aberdeen. 11. Redmond. 100, n. Bellevue.

v. Tacoma. Glamour. Spokane. "Julia speaks her mind". Olympia. Gia Kourlas. Seattle.

(The 60's). Non-Religious – 15%. February 5, 1999. E30. Other Religions – 2%. The New York Times. Other Christian – 4%. "This Time, Man, The 60's Go, Like Faster". Roman Catholic – 19%.

Caryn James. Protestant – 55%. (Stockard Channing and The Business of Strangers). 3.6% mixed race. December 7, 2001. E8. 1.6% American Indian. The New York Times. 5.5% Asian.

"At the Movies: Understanding a Dragon Lady". 7.5% Hispanic. Dave Kehr. 3.2% Black. (10 Things). 78.9% White. 18. Mount Olympus.

July 8, 1999. Olympic Mountains