Neve Campbell

Neve Campbell
Birth name	Neve Adrianne Campbell
Born	October 3, 1973 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Notable Roles	Julia Salinger in Party of Five, Sidney Prescott in Scream
Notable Episodes
Awards

Biography

Neve Campbell was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, to Marnie (Neve), a Dutch-born psychologist and yoga instructor, and Gerry Campbell, a Scottish-born teacher. Campbell first came to our TV screens in the hit Drama series Party of Five. Described as TV's most believable teenager, her first major film role came in the form of innocent victim "Sidney Prescott" in Scream (1996), the film which re-defined the slasher genre.

Roles

Starring Roles

Series	Role	Year(s)	Season(s)
Catwalk	Daisy McKenzie	1992–1994	1	2
Party of Five	Julia Salinger	1994–2000	1	2	3	4	5	6
Sea-Wolf	Maude Brewster	2008	miniseries
Burn Up	Holly	2008	miniseries
The Philanthropist	Olivia Rist	2009	1
The Lincoln Lawyer	Maggie McPherson	2022–present	1

Recurring Roles

• House of Cards: Leann Harvey

Guest Starring Roles

Series	Role	Episode	Airdate
My Secret Identity	Student	3x15 - Pirate Radio	February 11, 1991
The Kids in the Hall	Laura Capelli	3x13 - Episode 313	March 10, 1992
Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Nonnie Walker	3x13 - The Tale of the Dangerous Soup	April 16, 1994
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	Trish Collins	2x16 - Kundela	October 17, 1994
Aventures dans le Grand Nord	Nepeese	1x02 - Bari	December 30, 1994
MADtv	Julia Salinger	1x06 - Episode 106	November 18, 1995
MADtv	Herself	2x05 - Episode 205	November 2, 1996
Saturday Night Live	Herself	22x12 - Neve Campbell/David Bowie	February 8, 1997
Medium	Debra McCall	3x20 - Head Games	May 2, 2007
Medium	Debra McCall	3x21 - Heads Will Roll	May 9, 2007
Medium	Debra McCall	3x22 - Everything Comes to a Head	May 16, 2007
The Simpsons	Cassandra	21x07 - Rednecks and Broomsticks	November 29, 2009
The Simpsons	Cassandra	21x08 - O Brother, Where Bart Thou?	December 13, 2009
Titanic: Blood and Steel	Joanna Yaegar	1x01 - A City Divided	April 15, 2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel	Joanna Yaegar	1x07 - The Truth Shall Set You Free	May 13, 2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel	Joanna Yaegar	1x08 - High Stakes	May 13, 2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel	Joanna Yaegar	1x09 - Burden of Proof	May 21, 2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel	Joanna Yaegar	1x11 - The Tipping Point	May 30, 2012
Titanic: Blood and Steel	Joanna Yaegar	1x12 - The 'Unsinkable' Sets Sail	May 30, 2012
Grey's Anatomy	Lizzie Shepherd	9x08 - Love Turns You Upside Down	December 6, 2012
Grey's Anatomy	Lizzie Shepherd	9x09 - Run, Baby, Run	December 13, 2012
Mad Men	Lee Cabot	7x01 - Time Zones	April 13, 2014

Specials and Made-for-TV Movies

Title	Role	Airdate	Series/Banner
I Know My Son Is Alive	Beth	February 20, 1994	NBC Sunday Night Movie
The Forget-Me-Not Murders	Jess Foy	March 29, 1994	CBS Tuesday Movie
The Canterville Ghost	Virginia 'Ginny' Otis	January 27, 1996	ABC Saturday Night Movie
Last Call	Frances Kroll	May 25, 2002	Showtime Original
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical	Miss Poppy	April 16, 2005	Showtime Original
An Amish Murder	Kate Burkholder	January 6, 2013	Lifetime Original

Talk, News and Game Show Appearances

Series	Episode	Airdate
The Rosie O'Donnell Show		December 6, 1996
Maury		October 8, 1997
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		December 5, 1997
The Rosie O'Donnell Show		February 18, 1998
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		March 13, 1998
Maury		April 30, 1998
Celebrity Profile	Jennifer Love Hewitt	December 2, 1998
The Directors	The Films of Wes Craven	January 1, 1999
The Rosie O'Donnell Show		February 10, 1999
Access Hollywood		June 23, 1999
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		October 13, 1999
The Rosie O'Donnell Show		January 19, 2000
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		March 1, 2000
Rotten TV	Episode #1.2	July 31, 2000
Access Hollywood		September 21, 2000
The Rosie O'Donnell Show		January 22, 2001
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		April 19, 2001
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		May 25, 2002
E! True Hollywood Story	Scream	October 31, 2001
The Early Show		February 28, 2003
Tussen de sterren	Episode #1.3	November 17, 2003
The Charlie Rose Show		January 16, 2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Show 86	January 21, 2004
The Charlie Rose Show		January 29, 2004
Last Call with Carson Daly	Show 312	February 11, 2004
Tinseltown TV		February 21, 2004
The Early Show		March 11, 2004
Late Show with David Letterman	Show 2231	September 6, 2004
Live! With Regis and Kelly		August 13, 2004
Today		August 18, 2004
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Show 1946	September 7, 2004
The View		September 8, 2004
E! True Hollywood Story	Scream Queens	October 31, 2004
Open Access	Charities	November 7, 2004
This Morning (UK)		November 11, 2004
Biography (1987)	Val Kilmer	November 17, 2004
Dinner for Five	Episode #4.2	January 7, 2005
The Bigger Picture	Episode #2.2	January 16, 2006
Richard & Judy		February 17, 2006
GMTV		November 29, 2006
ADHDtv: With Lew Marklin	Obama Ball 90210	January 1, 2008
Xposé	Episode #3.217	July 24, 2009
The Republic of Telly	Episode #2.11	January 1, 2011
The Marilyn Denis Show	Episode #1.59	March 31, 2011
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		April 4, 2011
The Hour	Episode #7.129	April 6, 2011
In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber	Zachary Gordon/Neve Campell/Peter Adee	April 7, 2011
Up Close with Carrie Keagan		April 11, 2011
The 7PM Project	Episode #1.433	April 14, 2011
Made in Hollywood	Episode #6.23	April 16, 2011

Awards and Accolades

MTV Movie Awards

(1 Win in 4 Nominations)

Trivia

• She wanted to take ballet and become a Professional Prima Ballerina at age six after her father took her to see a production of "The Nutcracker." She received ballet lessons that Christmas. At age nine, she joined The National Ballet of Canada.
• Is a former smoker.
• Despite making herself especially known as a "Scream Queen," despite that he personally hated horror movies. Though her personal favorite is Kubrick's 1980 "The Shining."
• While training for a career in ballet, she developed accumulating injuries (she had a bunion removed from her big toe and her joints were practically worn away), so she finally gave up dance. She still works out at the bar regularly and made the movie 2003 "The Company" because of her love for the art.
• She appeared in the Toronto production of the Broadway Musical "Phantom of the Opera" as a ballerina (early 90's).
• She was in People (USA) magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list.
• She turned to acting after quitting dance and was soon cast as the Degas Ballerina Girl in "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Colm Wilkinson at Toronto's Pantages Theater. At 16, she was at the time the youngest person ever to be cast in this production. In total, she performed in over 800 shows. It was there that she met actor Jeff Colt, a bartender at the theater. They married in 1995 in England's Westminster Cathedral, but divorced three years later.
• After the production of her film "The Company" wrapped, the Joffrey company offered her a spot. She turned them down.

Quotes

• (If she could change one feature about her, what would it be?): "I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!"

• ("What was the most difficult time of her life?"): Probably when I was at the National Ballet School of Canada, from the ages of nine to fourteen. It's the best dance school in the world, but an extremely competitive one, and there was a lot of pressure for a child. It had an extremely back-stabbing mentality, and there was a lot of favoritism. I wanted to be there because I wanted to be a dancer. I love to dance, and that was my dream. When you're in that school, it means you've beaten out two thousand people to get there, so you're not exactly gonna quit. But I did, at fourteen, because I basically had a nervous break-down--I wouldn't have been able to function had I stayed there. It was a huge decision. But I'd just about given up on my dream of being a dancer and realized that I'd completely lost myself and had no friends and was very unhappy in my life and couldn't have continued if I'd stayed there.

• (Asked "Was she injured during the filming of The Company (2003)): "I broke my rib three days before going to Chicago. I did the training for four and a half months getting ready to go and three days before I went, when I was really nervous to join the company and see where I stood, I broke my rib. We were learning "Funny Valentine" and because we were learning from the tape, we were doing one of the lifts wrong. He lifted me from under my ribs. So then I had to go and do it with a broken rib".

• (On her dance injuries): "I have got arthritis in my neck and my hips. I have had surgery on my feet. I have had snapping hip syndrome, tendonitis, shin splints, bursitis... I have had almost every injury imaginable."

• "TS has really taught me a lesson about judging people who are different. Now when I see somebody do or say something I don't understand, I try to look beyound appearances and ask myself what makes that person tick - no pun intended. Think about it: When you keep an open mind about things that seem unusual or strange, all sorts of new understanding come to you. The world gets bigger, and so do you. ["Celebrity Diary", Teen People Magazine, April 2000]

• "When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive."

• "I'm always sad I left dance. I'm just in my element when I'm in the dance world. I'm so much more content in my heart when I'm sitting on a dance floor in a studio. It sounds so cheesy but it's just my home, it's where I grew up, I've been doing it since I was 6. It makes so much more sense to me than anything else I do."

• (On Pointe-work in ballet): "You'd better love it, or there's absolutely no point. Unless, of course, you're a complete masochist."

• "Classical ballet is physically challenging. You don't have any control over your career. You have to take instruction. You can't talk back. You can't have an opinion. You have to have great discipline and endurance. You have to tolerate pain. If you don't make it within a five-year period after training, you won't get into a company. You can't do it after you turn 35, because your body hurts so much. If you do ballet, you have to do it all day, every day.

• [on her favorite death scenes from the "Scream" series]: It's really chilling that people think it's fun that she's dying [on Jada Pinkett Smith in Scream 2 (1997)]. And just for gross fun, Tatum [Rose McGowan] in the garage [in the first "Scream"]."

• [on Hollywood favoring sequels and remakes/reboots instead of new material]: "We're going back to versions of movies that were only out a short while ago. There are sequels and all theses prequels to all the sequels. It's a terrible situation, it truly is. It makes me sad because there are so many great stories out there waiting to be told."

• "Every single comic, every single book is made into a film. Do you know an author pitching a book nowadays is asked to consider whether there's a possibility of making a film from it? So films are even limiting the kinds of books we'll be able to read.

• [on Scream 4 (2011)]: I was definitely apprehensive because we'd decided ten years ago that maybe we should stop there. But ten years later, it suddenly seemed like something that might be worth revisiting. For me, it was a matter of heading Kevin's ideas. I thought his pitch and his concept were really good. As usual, he's really smart, and that made my decision. I felt we'd done such a good trilogy we shouldn't push our luck. Then Kevin pitched me his idea and I thought, 'This could actually be really great'. I knew it would be fun to see everyone again."

• [on returning to the "Scream" series after so 11 years and how much of a challenge it was]: "As an actor, I think the worst you can do is practice faces in the mirror. It's not that challenging, to be honest. I've been doing this character for 15 years and they're great films and, if I can imagine what she's going through, it's not a challenge to figure out how to play it."

• [on Scream 4 (2011)]: "What I loved about the movie was the fact that we brought it to a new generation. You know, 11 years later, things have changed a great deal with social networking, multimedia, reality television and how people relate to fame and fortune now and YouTube and all of that ... it adds something to these films that hadn't been in there before and keeps it fresh and up to date."

• [on being compared to or included with other 'Final Girl' characters in the horror genre like Laurie Strode in "Halloween" and Nancy Thompson in "A Nightmare on Elm Street"]: "She was used as a tool within the first film in that she's the eyes of the audience and people are constantly following Sidney's character throughout these films and experience the films through her eyes in some way. Also, I think, the fact that she's always been less of a victim. She's much less the victim in this film. But even in the first one, although she was young and terrified with what she was going through, she became somewhat of a fighter.

• [on if she would return for a "Scream" film if her character was to be killed off]: Sure I would! If it's a really good film and good fun and great for the story, why not?"