Leelee Sobieski
Born in New York on June 10, 1983 Leelee Sobieski was discovered by casting director who suggested she try acting after spotting her in a high school cafeteria. The following of this advice resulted in her landing starring roles in the 1994 television movie ‘reunion', staring Marlo Thomas and Peter Straus, and as the lead in ‘A Horse For Danny', playing Robert Urich's niece. She followed this up with a role in the series ‘Charlie Grace', portraying Mark Harmon's daughter.
Sobieski's feature film debut was as Martin Short's daughter in the Tim Allen comedy ‘Jungle 2 Jungle'. Shortly after she landed the role of Sarah Hotchner, opposite Elijiah Wood in Mimi Leder's international blockbuster ‘Deep impact'.
Her fluency in French helped cast her in James Ivory's ‘A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries'. Soon after she starred as the title character in Christian Duguau's CBS mini-series ‘Joan of Arc', in a performance that saw her garner both an Emmy and Golden Globe best actress nominations. She also received a Golden Globe nomination for best performance by an actress in a mini series or a motion picture made for Television, for the NBC mini-series ‘Uprising', directed by Jon Avnet.
Other significant roles for television include the French miniseries ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuse', which was filmed in both French and English.
A breakout actress of her generation, Sobieski acted for legendary director Stanley Kubrick in his final, playing a young nymphet in ‘Eyes Wide Shut'.
Since then Sobieski has treated audiences to a variety of performances, including an orphaned teenager in Daniel Sackheim's thriller, ‘The Glass House', as a misunderstood Goth chick in director Christine Lahti's ‘My First Mister' and as a terrorized teenager in john Dahl's ‘Joy Ride'.
Sobieski has spent much of the last few years studying fine arts and literature at Brown University.
She most recently appeared with Nicolas Cage in Neil LaBute's remake of ‘The Wicker Man'. Additionally, she has filmed the Sony thriller ‘88 minutes', opposite Al Pacino and has also wrapped the big budget feature adaptation of the sword and sorcery video game ‘In the Name of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale."
Also on the horizon is the independent feature ‘Heaven's Fall', with Timothy Hutton and David Strathairn, ‘Lying' with Chloe Sevigny, ‘In a Dark Place, a modern adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of The Screw and the romantic comedy ‘The Optimist'.