Katherine Heigl : Biography, Pictures, Photos, Trivia, Address, Filmography (Roswell, Grey's anatomy)
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Katherine Heigl Isabel Evans in Roswell, Isabel Stevens in Grey's anatomy
Biography for Katherine HeiglKatherine Marie Heigl was born in Washington, DC, on November 24, 1978, to Nancy and Paul Heigl. A short time afterward, the family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Katherine was to spend the majority of her childhood; the youngest member of her family, Katherine--or "Katie" as she is nicknamed--has two elder siblings, John and Meg. Tragically, her older brother Jason died in 1986 of brain injuries suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a pickup truck. When doctors determined he was brain-dead, the family made the difficult decision to donate his organs. Not only did this painful chapter give Katherine a greater perspective and appreciation for life, but it motivated her to use her celebrity to promote the importance of organ donation.
Katherine was first thrust into the limelight as a child model. An aunt, visiting the family in New Canaan, took a number of photographs of Katherine, then aged nine, in a series of poses to advertise a hair care product she had invented. Upon returning to New York, with permission from Katherine's parents, she sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies. Within a few weeks Katherine had been signed to Wilhelmina, a renowned international modeling agency. Almost immediately she made her debut in a magazine advertisement and soon followed this with an inaugural television appearance in a national commercial for Cheerios breakfast cereal.
Following a number of commercials and modeling assignments for Sears and Lord & Taylor, she made her big-screen debut in That Night (1992), which starred Juliette Lewis and C. Thomas Howell. It was then that she realized that acting rather than modeling was her passion. In 1993 Katherine appeared in Steven Soderbergh's critically acclaimed Depression-era drama King of the Hill (1993), before landing her first leading role as a rebellious teenager alongside GĂ©rard Depardieu in My Father the Hero (1994). During this time Katherine continued to attend New Canaan High School, balancing her academic studies with work on films and modeling, which she undertook during holidays, vacations and weekends.
In 1995, she played Sarah Ryback, the niece of Steven Seagal's character, in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995), which was her "debut" in the action film genre. Acting was now becoming a stronger focus for Katherine, although she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in magazines such as "Seventeen." Television appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992) and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) soon followed, before she took the lead role in Disney's Wish Upon a Star (1996) in 1996. It was also during that year that Katherine's parents divorced and, following her graduation from high school in 1997, she moved with her mother into a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Malibu Canyon area. This enabled her to focus upon acting with the guidance and support of her mother, who now managed her career.
In 1997, Katherine portrayed Taffy Entwhistle, Rita Hayworth's stand-in, in Stand-ins (1997), and was also cast as the beauteous Princess Ilene in the European production Prince Valiant (1997). She then made her made-for-TV movie debut, co-starring with Peter Fonda in a re-working of the classic Shakespearean play The Tempest (1998) (TV), updated with an American Civil War theme. In this film, she played Miranda Prosper, a young woman torn between her love for both her father and a Union soldier. Bug Buster (1998) and Bride of Chucky (1998) represented a venture into the horror genre for Katherine. While both films could be described as rather tongue-in-cheek despite their gory emphases, Bride of Chucky (1998) was the better received, both critically and commercially.
In 1999, Katherine decided to branch out into series television when she accepted the role of the haughty yet vulnerable Isabel Evans on "Roswell" (1999), a show that blended teen angst with sci-fi drama. Though she had never planned to embark on a career in television, the role of Isabel, a teenager with a secret life, was an offer she found impossible to refuse. In the series, Isabel, her brother Max (Jason Behr) and their friend Michael (Brendan Fehr) are aliens passing as humans in Roswell, New Mexico, as they desperately try to hide the truth from government agencies, the people of Roswell and even their own adopted families. To publicize her role on the show, Katherine graced the covers of magazines such as "TV Guide," "Maxim," and "Teen" and was interviewed on "Later with Greg Kinnear" (1994) and "The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn" (1999). Along with her mother Nancy, she also appeared in an episode of the Sci-Fi TV talk show "Crossing Over with John Edward" (1999), during which she spoke with John Edward, a psychic medium, about her late brother, Jason.
During the three years "Roswell" was in production, Katherine found time to work on several movies. 100 Girls (2000), an independent film released in 2001, is the story of a college freshman who meets the girl of his dreams in an elevator during a blackout, and spends the rest of the movie trying to find her again. Her cameo role is that of Arlene, the competitive tomboy. The second film, Valentine (2001), a horror film starring David Boreanaz and Denise Richards, appeared in U.S. theaters on February 2, 2001. In this movie, which is based upon the 1996 novel by Tom Savage, Katherine plays Shelley, a medical student who meets a sudden demise.
In the spring of 2001, Katherine accepted a role in NBC's Critical Assembly (2003) (TV), a two-hour original television thriller. Katherine and Kerr Smith ("Dawson's Creek" (1998)) co-starred as brilliant and politically concerned college students who build a nuclear device to illustrate the need for a change in national priorities, but are betrayed by a fellow student when the bomb ends up in the hands of a terrorist. Unfortunately, the telefilm, directed by Eric Laneuville, written by Tom Vaughan, and based on the best-seller "The Seventh Power" by James Mills, was shelved when its storyline was deemed too close for comfort to the events of September 11, 2001. It was eventually broadcast in 2003.
Since the cancellation of "Roswell" in the spring of 2002, Katherine has been busy with various projects, including an appearance on UPN's update of the classic television series, "The Twilight Zone" (2002). That episode, entitled "Cradle of Darkness", aired October 2, 2002, and featured Katherine in the role of a woman who goes back in time to stop one of the most notorious murders in history. In addition, she completed a movie, Descendant (2003), a psychological thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." She has also starred as Romy in ABC/Touchstone's two-hour telepic Romy and Michele: In the Beginning (2005) (TV), a prequel to the 1997 feature Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997).
During the summer of 2002, Katherine made a major decision in the direction of her career when she signed on for representation in all areas with the William Morris Agency, one of the biggest and most prestigious agencies in the entertainment industry. She is now being represented by Norman Aladjem at Paradigm Agency and being managed by Nancy Heigl and Stephanie Simon and Jason Newman at Untitled Entertainment.
Of Irish and German origin, Katherine Heigl is the youngest of the five children of Nancy and Paul Heigl (with Meg, Jason, Holt and John Heigl). In 1986, one of his brothers died in a car accident. This dramatic event will deeply upset the family balance and lead to the divorce of his parents a few years later. [1]
It grows according to the Mormons tradition [2] in Virginia, then in Denver before the family moved to New Canaan in Connecticut.
While she is nine years old, an aunt sends photos of her to various model agencies, and Katherine is quickly engaged as a model, especially for correspondence sales catalogs, then in a television advertisement for Cheerios cereals. His measurements were 1.75 m for 58 kilos.
She obtained a first role of actress in the cinema in the film That Night, in 1992 (especially alongside Eliza Dushku) then in King of the Hill by Steven Soderbergh the following year. In 1994, she obtained her first big role by taking over the role of Marie Gillain in My Father the Hero, the American remake of the film My Father, this hero, against Gérard Depardieu. While continuing her modeling career (she regularly appears in magazines for teens, like Seventeen) and her studies, she is playing with high speed trap, with Steven Seagal, in 1995 - who allows her to be invited In the shows of Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien - then of an "Disney Channel Original Movie", L'Étoile Filante, in 1996.
In 1997, following the divorce of her parents and her studies finished, she left to live with her mother in Los Angeles and she became her agent. She then filmed in independent films: Prince Valiant, Stand-Infish and Bug Buster. In 1998, she appeared in an episode of New York Judicial Police, then she played the role of Jade in the Fiancée of Chucky and continues with the TV movie the Storm, a transposition of the play by William Shakespeare during the Civil War, in which She plays alongside Peter Fonda.
In 1999, she was one of Roswell's main actresses, broadcast on WB, in which she embodied an alien. The series offers him greater visibility and allows him to play in two films intended for the adolescent public: 100 girls in 2000, then Mortelle Saint-Valentin (with David Boreanaz and Denise Richards) in 2001.
At the end of the series, at the end of three seasons, in 2002, Katherine Heigl continued her career on television, in various TV movies. Among these, she turns with Kerr Smith in the final threat (Ground Zero), the story of two students who make a nuclear weapon, a delayed project following the attacks of September 11, 2001, or an adaptation of the Hauts de Hurlevent with Mike VOGEL. In 2005, she took over the role of Mira Sorvino in the television prequisted by Romy and Michelle, 10 years later (Romy & Michelle, in The Beginning) and played the main role of an independent film (Side Effects) before seeing her career Really restart with the Gray's Anatomy series broadcast on ABC from March 2005 and whose success was immediate.
In this series, she interprets the role of Isabel "Izzie" Stevens, who earned her two nomination to the Golden Globe in the category of best female role in a television production in 2007 and 2008 (award that finally returned to Emily Blunt) and Samantha Morton, before winning Unemmy Award Best Second Women's Category in a dramatic series in September 2007. Shortly after the start of the shooting of Grey's Anatomy, Katherine Heigl decides to invest himself publicly for organ donation, with the 'Donate Life America association. It is all the more concerned that after the car accident which had caused the death of his brother Jason, when he was fifteen, in 1986, the Heigl family had chosen to bequeath its organs [3].
In addition to the shooting of the series, she returns to cinema, in minor films, like The Ringer, with Johnny Knoxville (in 2005), or Zyzzyx Road, considered one of the least profitable films in American cinema [4] (in 2006), before achieving success at the box office, in Cloque, instructions for use, in 2007 and in 27 dresses. She has also been regularly present since 2005 in the classification of the sexiest women in the world in FHM magazine.
In 2005, she turned in the Only You clip for singer Josh Kelley. They announce their engagement in June 2006 [5], and married on December 23, 2007.
Katherine Marie Heigl is an American actress and producer born November 24, 1978 in Washington D.C. She is best known for her roles in the films "Grey's Anatomy", "Jenny's Wedding" and "Killers".
Heigl began her acting career in 1994 by playing in the television series "A new chance". She then played in several movies and television series, including "Roswell", "Dawson", "27 dresses" and "Knocked Up". In 2005, she obtained a recurring role in the series "Grey's Anatomy", where she played the role of Isobel Stevens for three seasons. It was for this role that she won an Emmy Award in 2007.
In 2009, Heigl played in "The Ugly Truth", a comic film in which she played a demanding and stuck television producer. The film was a commercial success, and Heigl was nominated for a Golden Globe for its performance. She also played in "Life As We Know It" in 2010, and in "Killers" in 2011.
In addition to her acting career, Heigl is also an activist for animal rights. She founded the charitable organization "Heigl Foundation" in 2008, which aims to improve the lives of animals in distress. She was also the ambassador of the Best Friends Animal Society organization for several years.
Heigl has been married to the scriptwriter and producer Josh Kelley since 2007. They have two adopted daughters, Nancy Leigh and Adalaide Marie Hope. Together, they live in the County of Los Angeles in California. Photos     
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