Camilla Belle (born October 2, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for her lead role in the 2006 remake of When a Stranger Calls and the 2000 Disney Channel film Rip Girls.

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 Early life
  • 1.2 Career
  • 1.3 Personal life
• 2 Filmography
• 3 Footnotes
• 4 External links

Born Camilla Belle Routh in Los Angeles, California, she attended the Marlborough School, an independent all-girls school in L.A. She is of Brazilian descent.

Belle began appearing in print ads at the age of nine months. She progressed into commercials and began working in movies for network and cable television. Throughout the 1990s, she appeared in several made for television and direct to video movies, including Trapped Beneath the Earth, Annie: A Royal Adventure!, Poison Ivy II: Lily and Marshal Law. She had minor roles in several widely-released films, including A Little Princess, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Practical Magic, as well as the lead role as Lizzie in Back to the Secret Garden. She was also in a commercial for America's Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) during the late 1990s.

In 2005, Belle starred in the film The Ballad of Jack and Rose, playing the daughter of Daniel Day-Lewis' character. The film only received a limited theatrical release, but Belle was labeled an "impressive newcomer" by film critic James Berardinelli.[1] The film was her first in nearly four years. The same year, Belle also had a major role in The Chumscrubber, which received only a brief and limited theatrical release.

Belle was subsequently cast in the lead role in Screen Gems' horror film remake, When a Stranger Calls. The film was released on February 3, 2006 and was considered successful at the United States box office, grossing over $45 million after an opening of over $21 million.[2] Later in 2006, she acted opposite Elisha Cuthbert and Edie Falco in The Quiet, a psychological thriller in which she played a deaf-mute teenage orphan. Shortly after the release of When a Stranger Calls, Belle was cast opposite Steven Strait in the Warner Bros. film, 10,000 BC, a prehistoric epic to be directed by Roland Emmerich. The film is scheduled for a March 2008 release and began filming in the spring of 2006 in South Africa and Namibia.[3]

As of 2006, Belle is the face of Vera Wang's new fragrance, Princess, by Coty Prestige.

Belle, an aspiring classical pianist, speaks several languages fluently, including Spanish and Portuguese (her mother's native language). She has been actively involved in various charities and is an international spokesperson for Kids With A Cause, created to provide a helping hand to children suffering from poverty, hunger, lack of education, neglect or abuse.

Belle is friends with actors Justin Chatwin and Jamie Bell, whom she met on the set of The Chumscrubber.[4] She was named after actress Renata Sorrah's character, Camila, in the Brazilian soap opera Cavalo de Aço. She likes to watch Brazilian soap operas with her mother and used to visit her mother's family in São Paulo. Maria Sharapova has called Belle her best friend. [citation needed]

She is currently a freshman at Columbia University. [citation needed]

• Camilla Belle at the Internet Movie Database
• Camilla Belle Fan - Fansite
• Collection of interviews at Camilla Belle Online

Steven Strait (born March 23, 1986(1986-03-23)) is an American actor, fashion model, and rock singer.

• 1 Early Life and Modeling
• 2 Acting
• 3 Current Projects
• 4 Filmography
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Steven Strait was born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York. He attended Xavier High School (New York City) and took classes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. During his teen years, Strait modeled for L'uomo Vogue, Spoon magazine, Details, Surface, and Pop magazine, and worked with photographers Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, and Ellen von Unwerth;[1] Weber featured Strait in his 2001 book, All-American: Short Stories.

Strait began taking acting lessons at the age of eleven. In the sixth grade, he began to take performing classes at the Village Community School. Although forced into it at first, he found a passion for acting after he performed live for the first time. He has worked at the Stella Adler Acting Studio and the Black Nexus Acting Studio in NYC.

In 2004, after graduating from Xavier High School (New York City) he moved to California to pursue a career in acting. After his first audition he received an acting job, and in 2005, he debuted in his first movie, Sky High where he played a teenage superhero named Warren Peace. He covered The Fixx song "One Thing Leads to Another" for the film's soundtrack.

His next movie appearance was alongside Ashlee Simpson (in her movie debut) and Pell James in Undiscovered, a movie about young actors in the entertainment industry who want to become stars. Steven plays the role of Luke Falcon.

In 2006 he starred as Caleb Danvers in The Covenant, a horror/thriller film which opened on September 8, 2006 to mixed reviews.

Strait is in line to appear opposite Camilla Belle in 10,000 BC, a film about pre-historic Earth scheduled for a March 2008 release.

• Steven Strait official site
• The Next Big Thing- a Steven Strait Fansite
• Steven Strait at the Internet Movie Database
• covenant-web.com | Fansite