CAMILLA BELLE

'Camilla Belle' (born October 2, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for her lead role in the 2006 remake of ''When a Stranger Calls'' and the 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie ''Rip Girls''.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

Filmography

Footnotes

External links

Biography

Early life

Born 'Camilla Belle Routh' in Los Angeles, California, she attended the Marlborough School, an independent all-girls school in L.A.
She is of Brazilian descent.

Career

Belle began appearing in print ads at the age of nine months. She progressed into commercials and began working in movies for network and cable television. Throughout the 1990s, she appeared in several made for television and direct to video movies, including ''Trapped Beneath the Earth'', ''Annie: A Royal Adventure!'', '' and ''Marshal Law''. She had minor roles in several widely-released films, including ''A Little Princess'', '' and ''Practical Magic'', as well as the lead role as Lizzie in ''Back to the Secret Garden''. She was also in a commercial for America's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) during the late 1990s.
In 2005, Belle starred in the film ''The Ballad of Jack and Rose'', playing the daughter of Daniel Day-Lewis' character. The film only received a limited theatrical release, but Belle was labeled an "impressive newcomer" by film critic James Berardinelli.^[1] The film was her first in nearly four years. The same year, Belle also had a major role in ''The Chumscrubber'', which received only a brief and limited theatrical release.
Belle was subsequently cast in the lead role in Screen Gems' horror film remake, ''When a Stranger Calls''. The film was released on February 3, 2006 and was considered successful at the United States box office, grossing over $45 million after an opening of over $21 million.^[2] Later in 2006, she acted opposite Elisha Cuthbert and Edie Falco in ''The Quiet'', a psychological thriller in which she played a deaf-mute teenage orphan. Shortly after the release of ''When a Stranger Calls'', Belle was cast opposite Steven Strait in the Warner Bros. film, ''10,000 BC'', a prehistoric epic to be directed by Roland Emmerich. The film is scheduled for a March 2008 release and began filming in the spring of 2006 in South Africa and Namibia.^[3]
As of 2006, Belle is the face of Vera Wang's new fragrance, Princess, by Coty Prestige.

Personal life

Belle, an aspiring classical pianist, speaks several languages fluently, including Spanish and Portuguese (her mother's native language). She has been actively involved in various charities and is an international spokesperson for ''Kids With A Cause'', created to provide a helping hand to children suffering from poverty, hunger, lack of education, neglect or abuse.
Belle is friends with actors Justin Chatwin and Jamie Bell, whom she met on the set of ''The Chumscrubber''.^[4] She was named after actress Renata Sorrah's character, Camila, in the Brazilian soap opera Cavalo de Aço. She likes to watch Brazilian soap operas with her mother and used to visit her mother's family in São Paulo. Maria Sharapova has called Belle her best friend.
She is currently a freshman at Columbia University.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	''A Little Princess''	Jane
1996	''Poison Ivy II''	Daphne Falk
	''Marshal Law''	Boots
1997	''	Cathy Bowman
1998	''The Patriot''	Holly McClaren
	''Practical Magic''	Young Sally Owens
1999	''Secret of the Andes''	Diana Willings
2000	''Rip Girls''	Sydney Miller
2001	''The Invisible Circus''	Phoebe, age 10-12
	''Back to the Secret Garden''	Lizzy Buscana	direct-to-video
2005	''The Ballad of Jack and Rose''	Rose Slavin	limited release
	''The Chumscrubber''	Crystal Falls	limited release
	''The Quiet''	Dot	limited release
2006	''When a Stranger Calls''	Jill Johnson
2008	''10,000 BC''	Evolet

Footnotes

1. http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/b/ballad_jack.html
2. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=whenastrangercalls06.htm
3. http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002075170
4. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/fashion/sundaystyles/12NITE.html?ex=1141189200&en=b98eb6a11989e45f&ei=5070

External links

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★ Camilla Belle Fan - Fansite

★ Collection of interviews at Camilla Belle Online