She attends a school there with a population of nearly all African American students, and she feels left out. In 2001, Stiles starred in Save the Last Dance, as an aspiring ballerina who was forced out of her small hometown in Illinois after her mother died to live with her struggling musician of a father. She starred in two more Shakespeare adaptations, but neither was very successful. She then starred in Down to You, and while the movie was not a success, critically or commercially, she still received a Teen Choice Award nomination for her on screen chemistry with the other leading actor, Freddie Prinze Jr. Critics raved over her acting performance, with Chicago Film Critics voting her the most promising new actress of the year, and with her winning an MTV award for Breakthrough Female Performance for her role in the movie. This is the movie that blasted her into stardom. The following year, she starred in another movie alongside Health ledger, where she played Kat Stratford in Gil Junger’s 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern retelling of the Shakespeare classic play, The Taming of the Shrew. She received critical acclaim for her performance in the movie, as critic Joe Balthai wrote that she was “the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.” It wasn’t until 1998 when Julia Stiles landed her first leading role, in the film Wicked, where she played a teenage girl who was accused of murdering her own mother so that she could keep her father all to herself. Her first film roles were in I Love You, I Love You Not, where she acted alongside Jude Law and Claire Danes, and The Devils Own, where she had a small role as Harrison Ford’s character’s daughter in the Alan J.
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