Neve Campbell

Neve Adrianne Campbell (/ˈnɛv ˈkæmbəl/; born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress and producer. Following a series of guest appearances, Campbell first received recognition for appearing as Daisy in the Canadian series Catwalk (1992–1994) and as Ginny in the family television film The Canterville Ghost (1996). She then had her breakthrough starring as Julia Salinger in the Fox teen drama series Party of Five (1994–2000). After making her feature film debut with the supernatural film The Craft (1996), she rose to fame starring as Sidney Prescott in the slasher film franchise Scream (1996–present), which established her as a scream queen and earned her several accolades, including two Saturn Award nominations of which she won one.

Neve Campbell
Campbell at the 2015 Fan Expo Canada
Born	Neve Adrianne Campbell October 3, 1973 Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress producer
Years active	1991–present
Spouse(s)	Jeff Colt ​ ​ (m. 1995; div. 1998)​ John Light ​ ​ (m. 2007; div. 2011)​
Partner(s)	JJ Feild (2011–present)
Children	2
Relatives	Christian Campbell (brother)

Campbell has since had starring roles in films such as the neo-noir film Wild Things (1998), the crime films Drowning Mona and Panic (both 2000), the drama films The Company (2003) and When Will I Be Loved (2004), the comedy films Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) and Relative Strangers (2006), the romantic-drama film Closing the Ring (2007), the comedy-drama film Walter (2015), the action film Skyscraper (2018), and the biographical film Clouds (2020). She also appeared in the action drama series The Philanthropist (2009) and starred as LeAnn Harvey in the Netflix political thriller series House of Cards (2016–2017).

Early life

Campbell was born as Neve Adrianne Campbell on October 3, 1973 in Guelph, Ontario. Her Dutch mother, Marnie (née Neve), is a yoga instructor and psychologist from Amsterdam.[1] Her Scottish father, Gerry Campbell, immigrated to Canada from his native Glasgow, Scotland,[2] and taught high school drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theater company in the Netherlands, and her paternal grandparents were also performers. On her mother's side, Campbell is descended from Sephardic Jews who emigrated to the Netherlands and converted to Catholicism. She has stated, "I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes."[3][4]

Campbell has three brothers: Christian, Alex, and Damian. Her parents broke up when she was two years old. At age six, she saw a performance of The Nutcracker and decided she wanted to take ballet, enrolling at the Erinvale School of Dance. She later moved into residence at the National Ballet School of Canada, training there and appearing in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.[2] After accumulating numerous dance-related injuries, Campbell moved into acting at the age of 15, performing in The Phantom of the Opera at the Canon Theatre in Toronto while attending John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute in Guelph.[5]

Career

Campbell at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1997

Campbell appeared in a 1991 Coca-Cola commercial and promoted its sponsorship on Bryan Adams' Waking Up the Nation Tour (1991–1992). Her first starring role was as Daisy in the Canadian drama series Catwalk (1992–1994). She made several guest appearances on shows, such as The Kids in the Hall, Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.

In early 1994 Campbell went to Los Angeles to find a talent manager to represent her, and ended up going on several auditions while she was looking.[6] One of these auditions was for Party of Five, which cast her in the role of orphaned teenager Julia Salinger, whereupon Campbell packed up her belongings in Canada and moved to the United States. Described as "television's most believable teenager", Campbell rose to fame in the United States through Party of Five, which ran for six seasons from 1994 to 2000.[7] The show garnered critical acclaim and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama in 1996. The show was cancelled after Campbell decided not to renew her contract for a seventh season, in order to have the freedom to pursue film work.[8]

Campbell's first widely released film was The Craft (1996), which she starred in alongside Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk and Rachel True. The movie was a surprise summer hit, earning $55 million against a budget of $15 million.[9][10]

Campbell's major rise to fame occurred when she starred as Sidney Prescott in the horror film Scream (1996), a major hit which earned over $173 million at the worldwide box office and won critical acclaim. Her role has received significant critical praise throughout the Scream series, earning her the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her role in Scream. The film was followed by three sequels, all of which were also successful, with Scream 2 (1997) earning over $170 million, Scream 3 (2000) over $160 million, and Scream 4 (2011) over $97 million. Campbell won the MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance for Scream 2. In his review of Scream 3, Roger Ebert wrote: "The camera loves her. She could become a really big star and then giggle at clips from this film at her AFI tribute."[11]

Campbell appeared in the 1998 films, Hairshirt and 54 and voiced Kiara in the Disney animated musical film The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. She followed this with a role in the erotic thriller film Wild Things (1998) alongside Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon and Denise Richards. In 2016, Glamour praised the film's female characters by describing Richards and Campbell as "two of the most well-rounded, fascinating, and exciting characters to ever grace the screen."[12]

Campbell at the 2006 BAFTA Awards

Following the third film in the Scream series, Campbell appeared in several films that received a limited theatrical release but were well reviewed by critics, including the 2000 film Panic, in which she starred with William H. Macy and Donald Sutherland. In 2002, she starred in Last Call with Sissy Spacek and Jeremy Irons, for which she won a Prism Award for Performance in TV Movie or Miniseries. Campbell co-wrote, produced and starred in the 2003 film The Company, about Chicago's Joffrey Ballet, and the independent film When Will I Be Loved (2004), which was praised by critic Roger Ebert,[13] but received only a brief and limited theatrical release. In Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (2009 edition), the film critic describes it as an "Unlikable film ... crammed with coldhearted characters who are obsessed with big bucks, sleazy sex, and endless hustling."

In March 2006, Campbell made her West End theatre debut, in a version of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues at the Old Vic theatre. Matthew Modine and Maximilian Schell also appeared in the play, which received mixed reviews. Resurrection Blues was directed by Robert Altman, with whom Campbell had previously worked in The Company.[14] Later in 2006, Campbell performed again in the West End in Love Song, alongside Cillian Murphy, Michael McKean and Kristen Johnston, to mixed reviews.[15] On June 24, 2009, Campbell returned to television in a starring role on NBC's short-lived drama series The Philanthropist.

In 2011, Campbell starred in The Glass Man, which received a limited release. She starred in the drama film Singularity, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in May 2012. She also appeared in the 2012 miniseries Titanic: Blood and Steel, and starred in the 2013 Lifetime crime film An Amish Murder. Campbell guest-starred in several television series, including the NBC supernatural drama Medium, the Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons, the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy, the AMC period drama Mad Men, and the NBC sitcom Welcome to Sweden.

It would have to be something really special and really different. They'd have to be really convincing about who they decided to bring on as director, and I'd still have to do a bit of soul-searching on that one.

— Campbell on the possibility of returning to the Scream series[16]

In 2015, she guest starred in the WGN period drama series Manhattan. On June 30, 2015, it was announced that Campbell would star in the Netflix television drama House of Cards, beginning in the fourth season. She portrayed Texas based political consultant LeAnn Harvey.[17] On June 22, 2017, it was reported that Campbell would star in Rawson Marshall Thurber's action film Skyscraper. She played Sarah Sawyer, the wife of Will (Dwayne Johnson). The film was released on July 13, 2018 to box office success.[18][19] Campbell also co-starred as Valerie Gannon in the 2018 independent drama film Hot Air.[20]

In 2019, Campbell starred as Rebecca Fine, a single mother struggling with a serious illness, in the Canadian drama film Castle in the Ground, which had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. That same year, it was announced that she would star as author Laura Sobiech in the biographical musical drama film Clouds, which was released on Disney+ in October 2020.[21]

In September 2020, it was confirmed that Campbell would be reprising her role as Sidney Prescott for the fifth Scream film, which was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.[22][23] The film will be released on January 14, 2022.[24][25] In February 2021, Campbell was cast as Mickey Haller's ex-wife Margaret "Maggie" McPherson in a television adaptation of The Lincoln Lawyer for Netflix.[26]

In the media

Campbell has been included in magazine lists of the world's most beautiful women. She was selected as one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1998 and 2000. In 1998, she was ranked third in Empire's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars list. She was included in FHM's "Sexiest Women in the World" list in 1998 (at #31), 1999 (at #20), 2000 (at #31), and 2001 (at #42).

She has graced the cover of numerous magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Empire, Rolling Stone, Health, FHM, Entertainment Weekly, Lucky, Veronica and Jane.[27] She has appeared in television commercials for Coca-Cola, Tampax, McDonald's and Crunchie.

Personal life

Campbell married Jeff Colt on April 3, 1995. The couple met when he was a bartender at Toronto's Pantages Theatre, where she was performing. They divorced in May 1998.

In 2005, Campbell began dating John Light, whom she met while filming Investigating Sex. They became engaged in December 2005 and married in Malibu, California, on May 5, 2007.[28] The couple lived together in Islington, London for five years,[29] until Campbell filed for divorce on June 30, 2010, in Los Angeles.[30]

In March 2012, Campbell and her partner, actor JJ Feild, confirmed that they were expecting their first child together.[31] Their first son, Caspian, was born in August 2012.[32] On June 29, 2018, Campbell announced on Instagram the adoption of their second son.[33]

Filmography

Campbell in 2009

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The Dark	Officer Jesse Donovan
1994	Paint Cans	Tristesse
1994	The Passion of John Ruskin	Effie Gray	Short film
1996	Love Child	Deidre
1996	The Craft	Bonnie Harper
1996	Scream	Sidney Prescott
1997	Scream 2	Sidney Prescott
1998	Wild Things	Suzie Marie Toller
1998	54	Julie Black
1998	Hairshirt	Renée Weber	Also producer
1998	The Lion King II: Simba's Pride	Adult Kiara (voice)	Direct-to-video
1999	Three to Tango	Amy Post
2000	Drowning Mona	Ellen Rash
2000	Panic	Sarah Cassidy
2000	Scream 3	Sidney Prescott
2002	Investigating Sex	Alice
2003	Lost Junction	Missy Lofton
2003	The Company	Loretta "Ry" Ryan	Also story writer and producer
2003	Blind Horizon	Chloe Richards
2004	When Will I Be Loved	Vera Barrie
2004	Churchill: The Hollywood Years	Princess Elizabeth
2006	Relative Strangers	Ellen Minola
2007	Partition	Margaret Stilwell
2007	I Really Hate My Job	Abi
2007	Closing the Ring	Marie
2008	Agent Crush	Cassie (voice)
2011	Scream 4	Sidney Prescott
2011	The Glass Man	Julie Pyrite
2015	Walter	Allie
2018	Skyscraper	Sarah Sawyer
2018	Hot Air	Valerie Gannon
2019	Castle in the Ground	Rebecca
2020	Clouds	Laura Sobiech
2022	Scream	Sidney Prescott	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	My Secret Identity	Student	Uncredited; Episode: "Pirate Radio"
1992	The Kids in the Hall	Laura Capelli	Episode: #3.13
1992	Catwalk	Daisy McKenzie	4 episodes
1994	I Know My Son is Alive	Beth	Television film
1994	The Forget-Me-Not Murders	Jess Foy	Television film
1994	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Nonnie Walker	Episode: "Tale of the Dangerous Soup"
1994	Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	Trish Collins	Episode: "Kundela"
1994	Aventures dans le Grand Nord	Nepeese	Episode: "Bari"
1994–2000	Party of Five	Julia Salinger	142 episodes
1995	MADtv	Julia Salinger	Episode: #1.6
1996	The Canterville Ghost	Virginia "Ginny" Otis	Television film
1997	Saturday Night Live	Host	Episode: "Neve Campbell/David Bowie"
2002	Last Call	Frances Kroll	Television film
2005	Reefer Madness	Miss Poppy	Television film
2007	Medium	Debra	3 episodes
2008	Burn Up	Holly	2 episodes
2009	The Philanthropist	Olivia Maidstone	8 episodes
2009	Sea Wolf	Maud Brewster	Miniseries
2009	The Simpsons	Cassandra (voice)	Episode: "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
2012	Titanic: Blood and Steel	Joanna	6 episodes
2012	Grey's Anatomy	Dr. Lizzie Shepherd	2 episodes
2013	An Amish Murder	Kate Burkholder	Television film; also executive producer[34]
2014	Mad Men	Lee Cabot	Episode: "Time Zones"
2015	Welcome to Sweden	Diane	4 episodes
2015	Manhattan	Kitty Oppenheimer	2 episodes
2016–2017	House of Cards	LeAnn Harvey	26 episodes
TBA	The Lincoln Lawyer	Margaret "Maggie" McPherson	Main role

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
1996	Family Film Award	Best Actress – TV	The Canterville Ghost	Won
1997	Online Film & Television Association	Best Actress in a Drama Series	Party of Five	Nominated
		Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Actress	Scream	Nominated
	MTV Movie Award	Best Female Performance		Nominated
	Fangoria Chainsaw Award	Best Actress		Won
	Saturn Award	Best Actress		Won
1998	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Favourite Actress – Horror	Scream 2	Won
	MTV Movie Award	Best Female Performance		Won
	Online Film & Television Association	Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Actress		Nominated
	Fangoria Chainsaw Award	Best Actress		Nominated
	Saturn Award	Best Actress		Nominated
1999	Teen Choice Award	Choice TV Actress	Party of Five	Nominated
	MTV Movie Award	Best Kiss (shared with Matt Dillon and Denise Richards)	Wild Things	Nominated
2000	MTV Movie Award	Best Female Performance	Scream 3	Nominated
2001	Blockbuster Entertainment Award	Favourite Actress – Horror		Won
2003	Prism Award	Performance in TV Movie or Miniseries	Last Call	Won
2011	Scream Award	Best Horror Actress	Scream 4	Nominated
2012	Golden Nymph Award	Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series	Titanic: Blood and Steel	Nominated

See also

• List of Canadian actors

References

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2. Findlay, Jane; Lorna Hughes (February 20, 2000). "SCREEN STAR'S SCOTS DREAM; NEVE CAMPBELL JUST CAN'T WAIT TO VISIT THE LAND OF HER FATHER". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved December 10, 2007.
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12. Nast, Condé. "Hear Me Out: Wild Things Is Surprisingly Feminist". Glamour. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
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14. "Print Edition". Globeandmail.com. Archived from the original on January 16, 2009. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
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34. An Amish Murder. Lifetime. 2013.

External links

• Neve Campbell at IMDb
• CNN interview (January 13, 2004)
• IGN Films interview (January 5, 2004)
• E Online! interview (December 1997)