Jessica Claire Biel was born on March 3, 1982, in Ely, Minnesota, to Kimberly, a homemaker and spiritual healer, and Jonathan Biel, a business consultant, and General Electric worker. From 2000 to 2002, Jessica Biel attended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
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At age nine, Jessica Biel appeared in several musical productions in her hometown, playing lead roles in productions such as The Sound of Music and Beauty and the Beast. Jessica Biel landed her first feature film role as Peter Fonda’s granddaughter in the critically acclaimed drama Ulee’s Gold, released in 1997. In 2001, Jessica Biel played the love interest of Freddie Prinze, Jr. in the baseball-themed film Summer Catch.
JessicaBiel was cast in her first top-billing role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Jessica Biel also appeared in the 2004 film Cellular; played a supporting role, Ellen, in the romantic comedy Elizabethtown (2005); and starred in the indie film London. In 2006, Jessica Biel played a turn-of-the-century duchess in the period piece The Illusionist, co-starring Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti.
At the start of 2008, Jessica Biel shot Easy Virtue, an adaptation of the play by Noandeuml;l Coward. The Hollywood Reporter described her performance as “an irresistible force of nature a kind, witty, supremely intelligent and beautiful woman who is capable of rejoinders that thoroughly undercut her opponent’s withering criticism.”
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Jessica Biel performed the role of Sarah Brown with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a fully staged concert production of Guys and Dolls during the 2009 season at the Hollywood Bowl. Jessica Biel portrayed actress Vera Miles in the biographical film Hitchcock, based on Stephen Rebello’s book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho. In 2015, Jessica Biel starred in the independent drama Bleeding Heart, in which she plays a yoga instructor named May who meets her biological sister Shiva (Zosia Mamet), a sex worker, for the first time. On August 2, 2017, Jessica Biel’s eight-episode limited series murder mystery, The Sinner, debuted on USA Network.