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| Neve Campbell's Biography |
Acting and performing is present all through Neve's family, her Dutch-descended mother and Scottish father met on an acting job. Though her parents split up shortly after she was born, they were in full support of Campbell when she decided, after taking in a performance of The Nutcracker at the age of six, that she wanted to learn ballet. Three years of private lessons paid huge dividends when the prestigious National Ballet of Canada, which takes on only a handful of new students from among the thousands who apply each year, accepted the nine-year-old Campbell.
The young dancer studied with the company for five years before the intense demands on her time and her gifts became too much for her to bear. "I basically had a nervous breakdown," Campbell has since recalled of the extreme performance pressures that caused her to give up ballet and follow the generally less mentally and physically taxing pursuit of acting. Quite understandably, having the words "Spent five years with the National Ballet" on her résumé helped the aspiring thespian win a role in a Toronto production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera just months after she had hung up her toe-shoes.
Canadian television producers came knocking after Campbell bid Phantom a fond adieu, and the next couple of years witnessed her appearances in several commercials, a handful of television movies, and a Canadian feature film, Paint Cans. South of the border, audiences got their first good look at the beguiling ingenue in 1994, when MTV aired several episodes of the Canadian TV series Catwalk, a show Campbell had walked out on after a single season because she felt her character had become little more than a sex-fiend.
Within weeks of arriving in Los Angeles, Campbell beat out three hundred other hopefuls to secure a role in a Fox pilot about four siblings and their baby brother who must raise themselves after their parents die in a car crash. Thanks largely to Campbell's fetching, fresh-faced looks and the hunky appeal of co-stars Matthew Fox and Scott Wolf, Party of Five became a staple for the all-important youth demographic, and survived several threatened cancellations to become one of the most popular drama series on TV.
For her role in 1996's The Craft, she switched from playing an angst-ridden teen who must cope with such everyday problems as unwanted pregnancy and family alcoholism to playing an angst-ridden teen who must cope with such everyday problems as witchcraft and levitation.
Unfortunately, her personal life hasn't been quite as smooth-sailing:
in July 1997, Campbell separated from her husband of two years, actor
Jeff Colt, and the couple divorced the following May. From what we hear,
Scream 3 is coming out in the future. Many surprises lurk in the upcoming
film-will Sydney die? Or will we have a happy ending to the "trilogy"?
Check back here soon for more info concerning the upcoming smash.
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