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Neve Campbell got her start in theater as a teenage actress in her native Canada, singing and dancing in the chorus of the Toronto production of "The Phantom of the Opera" from 1988 to 1990. Born and raised in Canada by a Scottish father and Dutch mother, she became a household name when she starred in the hit drama television series "Party of Five" in 1994. 

After a brief modeling career, Neve started auditioning for any role she could get her hands on, and was quickly cast in guest appearances on "My Secret Identity" with Jerry O'Connell, "The Kids In The Hall", "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?", "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" with David Carradine and "Mad TV". She also appeared in several made for television movies including, "Cat Walk", "The Canterville Ghost" starring Patrick Stewart, "I Know My Son Is Alive" and "The Forget-Me-Not Murders". Campbell was not only gaining experience, but gaining the attention of producers and directors who wanted the actress in their projects.

Her first big movie break was in the role of Officer Jesse Donovan in the horror movie "The Dark" (1994), where something is alive beneath the surface of a graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. Even though the movie was a low-budget slasher flick, she was given praise for her role. She then co-starred in the short "Love Child" (1995), where nine year old Murray Murray is discovering his sexuality in the era of disco and leisure suits, and has a crush on sixteen year old Deidre. Another horror movie followed with "The Craft" (1996), in the co-starring role of Bonnie, where a newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.

The actress got her star making Hollywood break in the Wes Craven horror spoof "Scream" (1996), starring with David Arquette, Courteney Cox and Drew Barrymore, where a teenage girl becomes the target of a killer who has stalked and killed one of her classmates. A tabloid news reporter is determined to uncover the truth, insisting that the man who raped and killed her mother one year earlier is the same man who is terrorizing her now. Her boyfriend becomes the prime suspect. The rising star reprised her role as Sidney Prescott in the sequel "Scream 2", which included all the original cast and added Sarah Michelle Gellar, Laurie Metcalf, Jada Pinkett Smith and Portia de Rossi, and picks up two years after the tragic events at Woodsboro, and Sidney Prescott and Randy Meeks are trying to get on with their lives.

Capitalizing on the success of the first two "Scream" movies, she appeared in the third sequel "Scream 3", adding Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley, Jenny McCarthy and Patrick Warburton to the cast. This time, Sidney visits the set of "Stab 3," after pictures of her mother become the clue to a series of murders around Hollywood. She then took a starring role alongside Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon in the comedy crime thriller "Wild Things" (1998), where a high school guidance counselor is framed for raping two of his students. "Wild Things" earned a Blockbuster Entertainment Award and was nominated for a MTV  Movie Award. Neve was nominated in the category of Best Kiss.

That same year, she took a starring role in the historical drama "54" (1998), with Ryan Phillippe, Salma Hayek and Mike Myers, in the anthology film retelling the story of the famous Studio 54, a hot disco hangout for the social elite of New York. The movie follows several characters at once, some of whom are in desperate straits and on the verge of crashing. 

She wrapped her year lending her distinctive voice to the character of Kiara in Disney's smash hit animated movie "The Lion King: Simba's Pride" (1998), also starring Matthew Broderick, in the direct to video story of Simba's daughter, who is the key to a resolution of a bitter feud between Simba's pride and the outcast pride led by the mate of Scar. 

Neve was now a full-fledged Hollywood movie star and sexy celebrity. The actress was next hired and cast opposite Matthew Perry and Dylan McDermott in the romantic comedy "Three To Tango" (1999), where a rich businessman, mistakenly believes that Matthew Perry, who is bidding on a $90 million restoration contract is gay, and asks him to keep tabs on his mistress played by Campbell. Perry, who is not gay, falls for Neve in a big way even though she thinks he's gay. 

Another high profile role followed with the crime comedy "Drowning Mona" (2000), with Danny DeVito and Jamie Lee Curtis, about what happens when Mona Dearly, the most hated women in a small town, dies in a car crash and everybody in town becomes a suspect. She was starting to get out of her typecast image as a slasher horror film chick, and her role in "Mona" helped make her a legitimate movie star.

She then amused the world when she took the starring role of Julia Salinger in the soap opera style television drama "Party Of Five" (1994), the runaway smash hit that also starred Scott Wolf and Jennifer Love Hewitt. The series told the story of five brothers and sisters who are left to fend their own way in the world when their parents are killed by a drunk driver, and the struggles of raising each other while dealing with life in general. Her character of Julia Salinger, the headstrong older sister, experienced numerous trials and tribulations from an unwanted pregnancy to a broken marriage, all while coping with her family and their problems of alcoholism and cancer. 

After 143 episodes of "Party Of Five", she returned to the big-screen in the comedy "Investigating Sex" (2001), starring with Dermot Mulroney about a group of men and two female stenographers who decide to scientifically study sex. 

She then took her first leading and starring role as Missy Lofton in the dramatic thriller "Lost Junction" (2003), about a man Jimmy McGee, who is trying to fix his broken down car while on the road, and gets a lift from sweet Missy Lofton, who invites him to stay at her house in Lost Junction, a very small town in Mississippi, while his car is being repaired, and he falls in love with her. 

Another starring and high-profile role followed as Loretta 'Ry' Ryan in the musical drama "The Company" (2003), an ensemble cast drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer. She was also credited as a writer on the project. The actress returned to thrillers with her starring role as Chloe Richards, playing opposite Val Kilmer, in the movie "Blind Horizon" (2003), the story of  Frank, who loses his memory after being shot in small desert town in New Mexico. As he tries to retrace his steps and figure out his true identity he starts to believe he may be part of a plot to assassinate the president.

The following year, Campbell starred as Vera Barrie in the dramatic "When Will I Be Loved" (2004), portraying a young woman who is feeling undervalued by her boyfriend, and begins to explore her sexuality with other people. In 2005, Neve took the role of Miss Poppy in the musical comedy "Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical" (2005), an outrageous tongue-in-cheek musical comedy adaptation of the classic 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda film. She wrapped her year in the comedy "Relative Strangers" (2006), with Danny DeVito and Kathy Bates, where on a mission to locate his biological parents, a tightly wound professional is perplexed to find that the couple who conceived him aren't exactly upper-class. 

In 2007, Neve starred as Abi in the comedy "I Really Hate My Job" (2007),  the story about an evening in a café in London's Soho. As in so many jobs, nothing much happens - except laughter, song, rage, collapse, intrigue, cooking, lying, nudity, conversation, secrets, love, friendship, ageing, hatred, rat-infestation and the arrival of a movie star. 

She then returned to television for three episodes of the hit series "Medium", starring Patricia Arquette, before lending her voice to the animated family adventure film "Agent Crush" (2008), where to fight crime, a new hero is created - but there are a few small glitches to iron out first. Also that year, the actress worked with Tim Roth in the television mini-series "Sea Wolf" (2008), about a young man who is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen. An adaptation of Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea-Wolf".

The actress then starred with Malcolm McDowell, Joseph Fiennes, Gérard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bisset in the independent period film "Vivaldi" (2009), a biography of Antonio Vivaldi's early life when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice's courtesans. 

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