Juliette L. Lewis was born on the 21st June 1973, in Los Angeles, California USA, and is an actress and singer best known for her role in Martin Scorsese’s “Cape fear” (1991), which then cleared her path for other serious roles that followed, as well as for her TV appearances through the years. Apart from being an actress, she also has a music career that she launched with her band “Juliette And The Licks”, then as of 2009 gave space to Juliette’s solo career.
Have you ever wondered how rich Juliette Lewis is? According to sources, it is estimated that Juliette Lewis` overall net worth is $20 million, wealth that comes from her numerous appearances in TV shows and movies that have been going on since 1987. In adding to her net worth, as a singer, she released four albums with her rock band, meanwhile touring and performing around the world. Since she had started her solo career, Juliette had quite a few performances herself, which all contributed to her overall net worth.
Juliette Lewis Net Worth $20 Million
Born as a child of an actor and a graphic designer, Juliette Lewis comes from an artistic family. Although her parents divorced when she was only two, she and her four siblings continued intermittently living with both their mother and father who have ever since encouraged her talents. As a result, at the age of seven she started acting, and a few years later her musical talent and interests also came through, so Lewis had her first gig when she was 12.
Although talented, Juliette turned out to be a bit of a rebel as well, so first problems showed at the beginning of puberty. When she was 13 she was caught smoking marijuana, and two years later she dropped out of high school. Driving without a license was just another one of her derelictions, until she was pulled over at age 21.
Back to her professional career; it is worth mentioning that after garnering international attention in Martin Scorsese’s “Cape fear”, Juliette had been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Further on, she appeared in the Woody Allen film “Husband And Wives” (1992), in 1993 she starred in the film “What`s Eating Gilbert Grape” alongside Johnny Depp, a year later she was cast in the film directed by Oliver Stone “Natural Born Killers”, and in 1996 she was featured as Kate Fuller in the film “From Dusk Till Dawn”, all of which considerably benefited her net worth. For her performance in the TV movie “Hysterical Blindness” (2002) she received an Emmy nomination.
Other than her career on the big screen, Lewis has also been featured in a number of TV series, such as “Dharma and Greg”(2002), “Wayward Pines” (2015), and “Secrets And Lies” (2015) among others. Overall, Juliette has been involved in over 70 productions, indicating that her talent is not imagined, and her net worth has been consistently earned over more than 30 years.
Today, Lewis is a defender of Scientology; she stands as a support of the church’s attitude against psychiatric drugs, and advocates Eastern philosophies and alternative medicine. She describes herself as politically independent. Lewis is a supporter of Little Kids Rock and works to keep music in low-income schools.
As well as her talents, Lewis is well known for her relationship with Brad Pitt. The couple dated in the early nineties, starting when Juliette was only 16 years old but split up four years later, which eventually led to the actress dealing with drug problems, spending her twenties in rehabilitation. She was then married to Steve Berra, a professional skateboarder and director from 1999 to 2003. Although divorced, the couple have stayed friends to date. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo, Primetime Emmy Award for...
Movies
Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear, Kalifornia, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, From Dusk till Dawn, Strange Days, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Whip It, The Other Sister, Old School, August: Osage County, Too Young to Die?, The Switch, Kelly & Cal, Jem and the Holograms, Starsky & Hutch, Husband...
TV Shows
The Firm, Free for All, A Family for Joe, I Married Dora, Secrets and Lies, Wayward Pines
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Deep husky voice
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Just to buck the system in California, I bought a Mazda for $6,000 when I was 15 without even bothering to get a license.
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Just 'cause I'm in the same age bracket as Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't mean we all screw together.
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Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude."
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London, England, in rehearsal to star as "May" (alongside Martin Henderson as "Eddie") in the upcoming revival of Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love", which opens at the Apollo Theatre on 13th June. [May 2006]
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She was in Buenos Aires, Argentina only for one day (October 26), where she acted with her band The Licks in a private event. [October 2007]
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Performed in Finnish rock music festival Ruisrock. [July 2007]
Although she is now divorced, she remains good friends with her ex-husband, Stephen Berra.
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Posed for a portrait in US Magazine, by Peggy Sirota, which featured nothing but an extreme close-up of the soles of her bare feet.
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Fronts a rock band called "Juliette and the Licks" which is touring on Van's Warped Tour in 2004.
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Auditioned for the role of Lydia Deetz which was played by Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice (1988).
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Her song from Natural Born Killers (1994) was used in another song, "Bad Brother" by The Infidels.
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Played a suicidal mental patient in the music video for the Melissa Etheridge song "Come to My Window". Lewis' erratic behavior frightened the director to the point where he yelled "Cut!" several unnecessary times for fear that Lewis had truly suffered a mental/emotional breakdown.
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Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#75). [1995]
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Daughter of Geoffrey Lewis and Glenys Batley, a graphic designer.
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Father almost named her Snow Lake.
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Drove without driver's license until she was 21. She owned a car bought under a friend's name and had been driving illegally since age 15. Eventually got a license after she got caught not stopping at a stop sign.
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Arrested for being underage in an underground dance club at age 16. The arresting officer, who recognized her dad when he picked her up at the station, gave Juliette her mug shot (the charges were dropped), which now hangs, poster-size, in her home (this picture can be seen at Fan Page)
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Dropped out of high school just three weeks after starting.
