Katherine Heigl

Katherine Marie Heigl is a American Actrice born the November 24th 1978 with Washington, cd.. She currently interprets the role of Izzie Stevens in the medical series Grey' S Anatomy , which was worth to him to receive a Emmy Award in September 2007.

Biography

Of Irish origin and German, Katherine Heigl is the junior by the five children by Nancy and Paul Heigl (with Meg, Jason, Holt and John Heigl). It grows according to the tradition of the Mormons in Virginia, then with Denver before the family moves in with New Canaan in the Connecticut. Whereas it is nine years old, an aunt sends photographs of it to various agencies of models, and Katherine is quickly committed as a mannequin, in particular for catalogs of Mail-order selling, then in a publicity televised for the Céréale S Cheerios.

It obtains a first role of actress to the cinema in the film That Night , in 1992 (in particular at the sides of Eliza Dushku) then in King off the Hill of Steven Soderbergh the following year. In 1994, it obtains its first great role by taking again to the role of Marie Gillain in My father this hero , the American Remake of the film My father, this hero , vis-a-vis Gerard Depardieu. While continuing its career of mannequin (it appears regularly in magazines for banked-up bed, like Seventeen ) and its studies, it is with the poster of Piège at high speed , with Steven Seagal, in 1995 - which enables him to be invited in the shows of Jay Leno and Conan O' Brien -, then of a “Disney Channel Original Movie”, the shooting star , in 1996.

In 1997, following the divorce of her parents and its finished studies, it leaves food with her mother to Los Angeles and this one becomes its agent. It turns then in independent films: Prince Valiant , Stand-ins and Bug Buster . In 1998, it appears in an episode of New York judicial police , then it plays the part of Jade in Been engaged of Chucky and connects with the telefilm the Storm , a transposition of the part of William Shakespeare during the American Civil War, in which it plays sides of Peter Fonda.

In 1999, it one of the main actors of Roswell , is diffused on the WB, in which it incarnates extraterrestrial. The series offers a greater visibility to him and allows him to play in two films intended for the adolescent public: 100 Girls in 2000, then Mortal St. Valentine's day (with David Boreanaz and Denise Richards) in 2001.

At the oddment, at the end three seasons, in 2002, Katherine Heigl continues its career on television, in various telefilms. Among those, it turns with Kerr Smith in Ultime threat ( Ground Zero ), the history of two students who manufacture a nuclear weapon, a project delayed following the Attentats of September 11th, 2001, or an adaptation of the High of Hurlevent with Mike Vogel. In 2005, it takes again the role of Mira Sorvino in the Prequel televised Romy and Michelle, 10 years after ( Romy & Michelle, In The Beginning ) and holds the main role of an independent film ( Side effects ) before seeing its career really starting again with the series Grey' S Anatomy diffused on ABC as from March 2005 and whose success is immediate.

In this series, she interprets the role of Isobel “Izzie” Stevens, which is worth him nomination with Golden Globe in category of best supporting role female in production televised in 2007 (a price which returns finally to Emily Blunt), then a Emmy Award in a similar category, in September 2007. Shortly after the beginning of turnings of Grey' S Anatomy , Katherine Heigl decides to be invested publicly for the Donation of organs, near association Donate Life America. It is all the more concerned as after the car accident which had caused the death of his/her Jason brother, whereas he had fifteen years, in 1986, the Heigl family had chosen to bequeath its bodies.

Parallel to the turning of the series, it joins again with the cinema, in minor films, like The Ringer , with Johnny Knoxville (in 2005), or Zyzzyx Road , regarded as one of the least profitable films of the American cinema (in 2006), before obtaining a success with the Box-office, in In blister, directions for use , in 2007. It is also regularly present in the classifications of the sexiest women of the world in FHM .

In 2005, it turns in the clip Only You of the singer Josh Kelley. Those announce their Fiançailles in June 2006, for a marriage envisaged in October 2007.

Catalog of films

Rewards

  • Emmy Awards 2007 : Female best supporting role in drama series ( Grey' S Anatomy )

References

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