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 Katherine Marie Heigl (born November 24, 1978) is
an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actress and former fashion
model.
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Birth name Katherine Marie Heigl
Born November 24, 1978 (1978-11-24) (age 29)
Washington, D.C., USA
Spouse(s) Josh Kelley (2007-present)
[hide]Awards
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series
2007 Grey's Anatomy
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Ensemble - Drama Series
2006 Grey's Anatomy
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Biography
Early
life
Heigl was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of
Nancy, a personal manager, and Paul Heigl, a financial executive/accountant.[1]
She has German and Irish ancestry[2] and was raised a member of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[3][4] She had a strict upbringing.[5] She is
the youngest of four children (in addition to siblings Meg, Jason and John).
Heigl lived in Virginia and then Denver before her family settled in
Connecticut, where they moved into a large, old Victorian-style farmhouse in the
wealthy town of New Canaan, where she spent most of her childhood.[6]
In 1986, her 15-year-old older brother Jason died
of injuries suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a
pickup truck while out for lunch with some of his high school classmates.
Following his death the family decided to donate his organs.[7] Heigl is now a
strong proponent of organ donation.[8]
Career
When Heigl was nine, an aunt visiting the family
decided to take a number of photographs of her. After returning to her home in
New York, the aunt sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies, with the
permission of Heigl's parents. Within a few weeks, Heigl was signed as a child
model. Almost immediately, a client slated Heigl for use in a magazine
advertisement where she made her debut. She was soon earning $75 an hour posing
for Sears and Lord & Taylor catalogs. Television jobs soon followed, the first
in a national spot for Cheerios cereal. She made her acting debut in the 1992
movie That Night. Heigl appeared as Christina Sebastian in Steven Soderbergh's
Depression-era drama King of the Hill before being cast in her first leading
role in the 1994 comedy My Father the Hero. During this time, Heigl continued to
attend New Canaan High School, balancing her film and modeling work with her
academic studies. Heigl left New Canaan High School after her sophomore year to
pursue her career in Hollywood. It's unclear if she ever graduated from high
school.
She then appeared opposite Steven Seagal in the
1995 action thriller Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Despite an increased focus
on acting, she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in magazines such
as Seventeen. She took the lead role in Disney's made-for-television film Wish
Upon a Star in 1996. Also in 1996, Heigl's parents divorced and her mother was
diagnosed with cancer.[5] After her high school graduation in 1997, she moved
with her mother into a four-bedroom house in Malibu Canyon, Los Angeles, and her
mother became her manager.
In 1998, she co-starred with Peter Fonda in a
re-working of the classic Shakespearian play The Tempest, set during the
American Civil War. Later that year, she starred in the horror film Bride of
Chucky.
In 1999, Heigl turned her attention to television
when she accepted the role of Isabel Evans on the science fiction TV drama
Roswell, a role that was expanded in the show's second and third seasons. Heigl
had auditioned for all 3 female leads on Roswell before she was finally cast as
Isabel.[9]
Heigl was frequently featured in photo essays in
magazines such as Life, TV Guide, and Teen as well as FHM. She appeared in the
FHM and Maxim calendars, FHM's annual "100 Sexiest Women in the World", and was
featured in the Girls of Maxim Gallery.[10] In May 2006, Maxim awarded her #12
on their annual Hot 100[11] List as well as voted the 19th "Sexiest Woman in the
World" by readers of FHM magazine. While Roswell was in production, Heigl worked
on several films, including 100 Girls, an independent 2001 film, and Valentine,
a horror film starring David Boreanaz and Denise Richards.
Heigl accepted a role in Ground Zero, a television
thriller scheduled to be telecast that fall which was based on the bestselling
James Mills novel The Seventh Power, in the spring of 2001. She co-starred as a
brilliant and politically-concerned college student who helps to build a nuclear
device to illustrate the need for a change in national priorities; the device
ends up in the hands of a terrorist following betrayal by a fellow student.
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, however, the film was shelved
when its plot was considered inappropriate; it re-emerged in 2003 under the
title Critical Assembly. After the attacks, Heigl recorded a public service
announcement for the American Red Cross in an effort to help raise money for
victims.
In 2003, Heigl appeared in three television movies.
She returned to the horror genre with Evil Never Dies, a modern-day variation on
the Frankenstein story co-starring Thomas Gibson. Love Comes Softly, for
Hallmark Entertainment, found Heigl starring as Marty Claridge, a young,
pregnant newlywed traveling west. (She reprised the role of Marty in the sequel
Love's Enduring Promise the next year.) Heigl played Isabella Linton in MTV's
modern revamp of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. In October 2003, Heigl was
cast opposite Johnny Knoxville in The Ringer, a Farrelly brothers comedy that
was released in December 2005. Heigl starred as Romy in the 2005 television
movie Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, a prequel to the 1997 film Romy and
Michele's High School Reunion.
In 2005, Heigl was cast in what would become her
most high-profile role, as intern Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens on Grey's Anatomy,
an ABC medical drama. The show, originally introduced as a midseason
replacement, has become a huge ratings success. The same year, Heigl landed the
starring role in the independent film Side Effects,[12] about marketing and the
pharmaceutical industry. In late 2006, Heigl was nominated for a Golden Globe
award in the category, Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or
Motion Picture Made for Television for her work on Grey's Anatomy. Also in 2006,
she filmed Knocked Up, a comedy from writer/director Judd Apatow, starring
opposite Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Apatow's real life wife, Leslie Mann. Upon
its June 2007 theatrical release, the film received largely positive reviews
from critics, and proved to be a box office success. She has been on FHM's "100
Sexiest Women in the World" list twice as of 2007.
On September 16, 2007, Heigl won an Emmy for
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Izzie Stevens.
In her acceptance speech she acknowledged that even her mother did not believe
she would win, and when her name was called, she had to be censored vocally by
the telecast's producers, due to her saying "Shit!" when she reacted to the
win.[13] Earlier, she had corrected telecast announcer Rebecca Riedy, who had
been given an incorrect phonetic spelling of Heigl's name, when she
mispronounced her name as Hi-gell before the presentation of the award with Kyle
Chandler for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.
Feminism
In the wake of widespread media attention to
accusations of sexism (including articles in New York Magazine, The New Yorker,
Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Guardian, Vanity Fair and People)
against director and producer Judd Apatow and his film Knocked
Up,[14][15][16][17][18][19] Heigl has been tagged as a potentially important and
assertive modern proponent of women's rights.[20]
In a highly-publicized Vanity Fair interview, as
one of the lead actors in the hit film Knocked Up, Heigl admitted that though
she enjoyed working with Apatow and Rogen, she had a hard time enjoying the film
itself. She called the movie "a little sexist," claiming that the film "paints
the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable,
goofy, fun-loving guys."[21][22] Following Heigl's controversial comments, an
online survey of 927 individuals was performed by lifestyle publication
Buzzsugar (a media product of Sugar Publishing) in which the overwhelming
majority (59%) of movie-goers agreed that Knocked Up was sexist or could be
viewed as sexist (although 38% were not personally offended) while 37% of
viewers saw the film as devoid of sexist aspects.[23] In his review for The
Guardian, humorist Joe Queenan called Knocked Up "the latest in a new genre of
romantic comedies in which an unappealing hero gets together with a gorgeous,
successful woman." [24]
Heigl's comments spurred widespread reaction in the
media, primarily consisting of ad hominem attacks in which she was called "an
ungrateful traitor," "hypocrite," and "assertive, impatient go-getter who
quickly tired of waiting for her boyfriend to propose," in some cases debasing
her religious beliefs and criticizing her private relationships.[25][26] Heigl
clarified her remarks to People magazine, stating that, "My motive was to
encourage other women like myself to not take that element of the movie too
seriously and to remember that it's a broad comedy," adding that, "Although I
stand behind my opinion, I'm disheartened that it has become the focus of my
experience with the movie."[27]
Personal life
Heigl was once in a relationship with Roswell
costar Jason Behr.[28] In June 2006, she became engaged to singer Josh Kelley,
whom she met on the set of his music video for "Only You."[29] The couple was
married on December 23, 2007 in Park City, Utah.
At the end of 2007, Barbara Walters named Heigl one
of the "Ten Most Fascinating People of 2007" on an ABC program of that title.
Heigl later questioned her inclusion on the list, saying that in fact she is
"quite boring".[30]
Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1992 That Night Kathryn
1993 King of the Hill Christina Sebastian
1994 My Father the Hero Nicole
1995 Under Siege 2: Dark Territory Sarah Ryback
1996 Wish Upon a Star Alexia Wheaton
made-for-television
1997 Prince Valiant Princess Ilene
Stand-ins Taffy-Rita Hayworth's Stand-in
1998 Bug Buster Shannon Griffin
Bride of Chucky Jade
The Tempest Miranda Prosper made-for-television
1999 Roswell Isabel Evans 1999-2002
2000 100 Girls Arlene
2001 Valentine Shelley Fisher
2003 Love Comes Softly Marty Claridge
made-for-television
Wuthering Heights Isabel Linton made-for-television
Critical assembly Aizy Hayward
2004 Love's Enduring Promise Marty Claridge
made-for-television
2005 Romy and Michele: In the Beginning Romy White
made-for-television
Side Effects Karly Hert
The Ringer Lynn Sheridan
Grey's Anatomy Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens
2005-present
2006 Zyzzyx Road Marissa
Caffeine Laura
2007 Knocked Up Alison Scott
2008 27 Dresses Jane
2009 The Ugly Truth
Awards
Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
Preceded by
Blythe Danner
for Huff Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama
Series
for Grey's Anatomy
2007 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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^ Deborah Starr Seibel (2006-10-08).
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‘Knocked Up’ Brings the Gender Wars Back!
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^ Joe Queenan (2007-09-04). Dumb and
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“Slam” Knocked Up. The Movie Blog. Retrieved on 2007-12-30.
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^ Katherine Heigl Clarifies Knocked Up
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^ Grey's Anatomy Star Katherine Heigl
Engaged. People (2006-06-16). Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
30.
^ http://www.slate.com/id/2180955/
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