
Juliette Lewis
Juliette Lake Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her portrayals of offbeat characters, often in films with dark themes. Lewis became an "it girl" of American cinema in the early 1990s, appearing in various independent and arthouse films. Her accolades include a Pasinetti Award, one Academy Award nomination, one Golden Globe nomination, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. The daughter of character actor Geoffrey Lewis, Lewis began her career in television at age 14 before being cast in her first major film role as Audrey Griswold in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989). She garnered international notice for her role in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear (1991), which saw Lewis nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the Golden Globe in the same category. Following the success of Cape Fear, Lewis had a supporting role in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1992), followed by the thriller Kalifornia (1993) in which she portrayed a childlike woman whose boyfriend is a serial killer. She appeared in the drama What's Eating Gilbert Grape (also 1993), playing a young drifter. Lewis gained further notice for her lead role as Mallory Knox in Oliver Stone's controversial satirical crime film Natural Born Killers (1994), which earned her the Pasinetti Award for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. She subsequently starred in Kathryn Bigelow's science fiction film Strange Days (1995), and Robert Rodriguez's vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). In 1999, Lewis had a leading role in the drama The Other Sister as a woman with mental disabilities. The 2000s saw Lewis appearing in a series of supporting roles in independent features and studio films, and in 2003 she earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her role in Hysterical Blindness (2002). She went on to appear in supporting parts in such comedies as Old School (2003) and Starsky & Hutch (2004), and embarked on a musical career in 2003, forming the rock band Juliette and the Licks; in 2009, Lewis began releasing material as a solo artist. Subsequent film roles include the sports comedy Whip It (2009), the biographical crime film Conviction (2010), an American romantic comedy The Switch (2010) and the drama August: Osage County (2013). Starting in the later 2010s, Lewis worked more frequently in television, appearing in lead roles on the series The Firm (2012), Wayward Pines (2015), Secrets and Lies (2015–2016), The Act (2019), and Yellowjackets (2021).
123 acting credits
Acting · 123

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Over Your Dead Body
2026

RuPaul's Drag Race
2009

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003

LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988

The Wonder Years
1988

My Name Is Earl
2005

The Facts of Life
1979

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Yellowjackets
2021

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996

The Conners
2018

Wayward Pines
2015

Portlandia
2011

Dharma & Greg
1997

GMTV
1993

The Firm
2012

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
Sarah Kuttner – Die Show
2004

The Basketball Diaries
1995

Secrets and Lies
2015

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999

From Dusk Till Dawn
1996

Old School
2003

The Act
2019

Graves
2016

Through the Night with...
2002

It's Florida, Man.
2024

I Know This Much Is True
2020

Natural Born Killers
1994

Due Date
2010

Cape Fear
1991

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989

Sacred Lies
2018

Queer as Folk
2022

Welcome to Chippendales
2022

Ma
2019

I'm a Virgo
2023

Camping
2018

Kalifornia
1993

Filthy Rich
2020

Opus
2025

Enough
2002

Nerve
2016

My Stepmother Is an Alien
1988

Strange Days
1995

Starsky & Hutch
2004

The Thicket
2024

The Switch
2010
My Coolest Years
2004
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021

Romeo Is Bleeding
1993

Mixed Nuts
1994

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996

Whip It
2009

Cold Creek Manor
2003

Catch and Release
2006

Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
I Married Dora
1987

Renegade
2004

Bronco Billy
1980
A Family for Joe
1990

The Way of the Gun
2000

Conviction
2010

August: Osage County
2013

Free for All
2003

The Other Sister
1999

A Million Little Pieces
2019

By Design
2026

Jem and the Holograms
2015

That Night
1992

The Darwin Awards
2007

Mayday
2021

Back Roads
2019

DreamQuil
2026

Music
2021

Hellion
2014

Hick
2012

Husbands and Wives
1992

Metropia
2009

TV total
1999

The 4th Floor
1999

Anthem of a Teenage Prophet
2019

Some Girl
1998

Grilled
2006

The Evening Star
1996

Live from Studio Five
2009

Too Young to Die
1990

Sympathy for Delicious
2010

Crooked Hearts
1991

Open Road
2013

Picture Claire
2001

Hysterical Blindness
2002

Foreverland
2011

Daltry Calhoun
2005

Meet the Hollowheads
1989
Lips Like Sugar
—

Full Tilt Boogie
1998

The Runnin' Kind
1989

Gaudi Afternoon
2001
The Second Sound Barrier
2016

Aurora Borealis
2005

Dreamland
2019
Weezer: Security Threat
—

My Louisiana Sky
2001

The Making of 'Cape Fear'
2001

Home Fires
1987

Kelly & Cal
2014

Room to Rent
2001

Chasing Freedom
2004

Jesus Land
—

Mando Diao: MTV Unplugged - Above and Beyond
2010

Scorsese's Women
2014
Derby Baby: A Story of Love, Addiction and Rink Rash
2012

Future Relic 03
2015
Hard Lovin' Woman
2016

Assembling Armitage
2002
Juliette And The Licks - Four On The Floor
2006

HIM vs BAM
2005