Clea DuVall

Biography

Her parents divorced when DuVall was twelve years old. When her mother remarried, the sixteen year old DuVall moved out with her, took an apartment and left first and the school. Finally, she decided to become an actress and made her degree in 1995 at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, while she earned her living as a waitress in a restaurant. Her breakthrough as an actress she had in 1998 in Robert Rodriguez's horror film The Faculty, for which she was nominated both for a Teen Choice Award as well as Blockbuster Entertainment Award. This was followed by larger supporting roles in the movies Because I 'm a girl and Girl, Interrupted (both 1999).

Since then DuVall played numerous leading roles in independent films and supporting roles in the mainstream and went frequently for television in front of the camera. For her role in the TV movie Helter Skelter, it was in 2004 nominated for a Golden Satellite Award in the category Best Actress. From 2003 to 2005, she starred in 23 episodes of the award-winning HBO series Carnivàle. In the first season of the series Heroes, she had a recurring role as FBI agent in 2006. In 2008, she starred in the movie Passengers with Anne Hathaway. In January 2009 thriller The Killing Room premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Jonathan Love Mans, where a DuVall played by four first unsuspecting subjects on which the government conducts secret experiments. Other roles in the film playing Timothy Hutton, Chloë Sevigny and Peter Stormare. In the same year she counted in the pilot episode as provided for a planned science fiction series Virtuality film with Nikolaj Coster -Waldau and Sienna Guillory to the crew of a spaceship.

Filmography ( excerpt)

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