What was jessica biel in

Her performance earned her a Young Artist Award. In spring , during a break from filming 7th Heaven , she starred in I'll Be Home for Christmas , playing the love interest of Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

When she posed topless in the March issue of Gear magazine, Biel sparked considerable controversy, as she was still under 18 at the time of the shoot. Producers of 7th Heaven were outraged, and brought legal action against Gear. In , Biel played the love interest of Freddie Prinze, Jr. The next year, she starred as promiscuous college student Lara in the ensemble film The Rules of Attraction , an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel. Biel was cast in her first top-billing role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

In , Biel began work on the third installment of the Blade film series, Blade: Trinity. Almost immediately after finishing it in , she headed to Australia to shoot the action-thriller Stealth. Biel was cast in the role of Ellen Kishmore in the romantic comedy Elizabethtown. She then played the title character in the indie film London. Biel's film career blossomed when she played a turn-of-the-century duchess in the period piece The Illusionist , co-starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti.

Biel played an Iraq War veteran in the film Home of the Brave , a drama about soldiers struggling to readjust to society after facing the hardships of war. Like the play, the film is set in the s and Biel plays young widow Larita, who impulsively marries John Whittaker in France and must face her disapproving in-laws on returning to England.

The Hollywood Reporter described her performance as "an irresistible force of nature — a kind, witty, supremely intelligent and beautiful woman who The film centers around a woman who accidentally gets a nail lodged in her head, then travels to Washington D. Biel performed the role of "Sarah Brown" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a fully staged concert production of Guys and Dolls during the season at the Hollywood Bowl.

On the last night, she received a rousing standing ovation from 17, people. She said that producing was a way of regaining control over her acting career: "I think I just looked back and I thought I really went one direction for a while. And I didn't do that on purpose; I genuinely was trying to make the best decisions.

But I had this moment where I thought, I need so much more, and I have so much inside of me that I'm dying to work with and dying to explore, and I'd better take this into my own hands or my career is going to go [to] a place that I'm not going to be happy with.

Of course, furthering her acting career isn't the only reason Biel moved into producing. She told Variety at The Sinner 's premiere that the opportunity to be part of the casting process, work with writers and creators, and be hands-on with character arcs was key.

Biel starred in the first season of The Sinner and continued as executive producer until She has also produced 's Limetown on Facebook Watch, which she also starred in , and her latest producing project is Cruel Summer , an upcoming Freeform TV series which debuts on April 20, These days, Jessica Biel is a wife and a mother of two. She met pop star Justin Timberlake in , and they married in , Insider reports.

In , they had their first child, Silas Randall. Then, in January , the pair announced the birth of a second son, Phineas, on The Ellen DeGeneres Show , although it's unclear exactly when he was born.

Couldn't be happier, very grateful. So, on top of all the hustling she's doing on behalf of her work projects, she's been plenty busy with her growing family — and, like many moms of newborns as insinuated by her partner , probably trying to multitask without a full night's sleep.

Motherhood has provided its own lessons for Biel. In a interview with Marie Claire , she said, "You think you're a selfless person, and then you realize you're not. These little people come around, and they require so much, and your schedule is really not your own, nor is it important anymore, and it's very clear that it's your life now revolving around this dude.

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