Leelee Sobieski Biography

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NAME: Leelee Sobieski
OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress
BIRTH DATE: June 10, 1982 (Age: 29)
EDUCATION: Brown University
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York

Originally: Liliane Sobieski
ZODIAC SIGN: Gemini

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Actress Leelee Sobieski’s debut film was the Disney comedy Jungle to Jungle. Shortly after, she landed her breakthrough role in Deep Impact.

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Synopsis

Leelee Sobieski was born June 10, 1982 in New York City. Her debut film was Jungle to Jungle. Shortly after,

she landed her breakthrough role in Deep Impact and was also cast in A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries. She was then offered the leading role in a TV miniseries. She next appeared in Never Been Kissed and Eyes Wide Shut. In 2000, she starred in Here On Earth, and three other films after.

Profile

Actress. Born Liliane Sobieski, on June 10, 1982, in New York City. Sobieski and her brother Roby were raised by their father Jean, a painter, and their mother, Elizabeth, a writer who later assumed the role of her daughter's manager. While attending a private high school in New York City, Sobieski garnered the attention of a casting director who coaxed her to audition for the TV movie Reunion (1994). Sobieski was awarded the role and starred opposite Marlo Thomas.

Sobieski's debut film was Disney's comedy Jungle to Jungle(1997). Shortly after, she landed her breakthrough role in Deep Impact (1998) and was also cast in A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries(1998). Sobieski earned praise for both performances and was offered the leading role in 1999's TV miniseries , for which she received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress.

In 1999, Sobieski accepted more unconventional projects. She portrayed a geeky high school student opposite Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed(1999) and played the flirtatious daughter of a shop owner in Stanley Kubrick??s Eyes Wide Shut(1999), which starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

Sobieski currently lives in New York City, where she still attends the same private school where she was first discovered. In 2000, she starred opposite Chris Klein in the sentimental teenage romance Here On Earth. The following year, she released three very different features, the spooky thriller The Glass House, the independent feature My First Mister, costarring Albert Brooks, and the suspenseful Joy Ride.