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Jessica Biel: Roles
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Jessica Biel wants her acting career to be taken seriously. Most people just want to be in movies, but Jessicais all but revolting againstfuture roles thatcater to her good looks. She wants more depth and more drama; and had this to say:
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Jessica Biel is gorgeous, and she did a pretty good job carrying the film. Horror movies are almost the only genre that commonly stars a woman in the lead role, and Ms. Biel performed as well as could be desired.
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Biel's first big break came when at 14 years old she landed the role of Mary Camden on the WB TV Series 7th Heaven. The family drama from Aaron Spelling and Brenda Hampton became the most popular series on the fledgling network. Jessica's film career ... began at age 15 when she played alongside Peter Fonda in his Golden Globe winning performance in Ulee's Gold (1997). Aside from acting, Jessica became a spokesmodel for L'Oréal cosmetics in 2002.
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Biel's first feature film Ulee's Gold puts her toe-to-toe with screen legend Peter Fonda. The film centers on a widowed, reclusive beekeeper (Fonda) taking care of his two young granddaughters, played by Biel and Vanessa Zima. Despite the strong start, Biel auditions, but is not called back, for the role of Jane in American Beauty (a role that went to Thora Birch). Biel later blames the slight on her squeaky-clean image as a preacher's daughter on 7th Heaven.
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Well, it was bound to happen and Jessica Biel has gone and done it! Yep, the natural brunette has died her hair blonde! Maybe since she wasn’t being cast in serious roles she figured she might as well just go blonde and get all the ditsy parts.
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Like many young actresses who grow up in front of the cameras, Biel had to fight to transition from wholesome teen to adult screen siren. This former model hit it big with her very first TV role as a minister's adolescent daughter on 7th Heaven, but she disliked the character's goody-goody image. After creating a stir by posing seminude for a men's magazine, the underage beauty started to win more mature film roles, although usually she was called on to show off more skin than acting chops. Off screen, Biel was romantically linked with two of her costars, Cellular's Chris Evans and 7th Heaven's Adam LaVorgna.
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