Happy Birthday: Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles

Born: March 28, 1981 in New York City, New York, USA

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one. […] There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it’s exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

[on the most challenging aspect of playing Lumen in Dexter (2006)] – I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them, but I was surprised, especially toward the end of the season — around episode 10 — when some of the details of what Lumen had experienced became really harrowing, and I started to realize that it was affecting me outside of work. One scene in particular, in episode 10, when the detectives have found DVDs showing…