She temporarily interrupted her career after deciding to enroll at Columbia University in 2000, where she earned a degree in English. In addition, Julia later portrayed Viola off-Broadway in a Shakespeare-in-the-Park production of "Twelfth Night" in 2002. The violent-edged film, made in 1998, was not released until three years later due to the Colorado shootings at Columbine High School. Her wish to play Shakespeare was granted threefold with her participation in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), which was based on the Bard's "The Taming of The Shrew" and earned her the Chicago Film Critics Award as volatile teen Kat an updated version of Hamlet (2000) which paired her Ophelia with Ethan Hawke and another updated version of "Othello" entitled O (2001), which involved her high school character of Desi (Desdemona) in a mixed romantic relationship with African-American Mekhi Phifer.
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Julia was next featured as the daughter of Harrison Ford in The Devil's Own (1997), with her breakout role occurring on TV with the hard-hitting mini-movie Before Women Had Wings (1997), which was produced by Oprah Winfrey and dealt with child abuse.
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She continued training at New York's Professional Children's School and, at 15, made her cinematic bow with I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) with Claire Danes. A bright, precocious student, she was seriously considered for the child vampire role of Claudia in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) but lost out in the end to Kirsten Dunst. Her passion grew and by the next year was performing professionally and working in commercials.
When she was 11, she made her stage debut as a child actress with the experimental off-Broadway La MaMa Theatre. Encouraged to take modern dance lessons, she was introduced to Shakespeare and theater at an early age. Lovely, slim-eyed blonde Julia (O'Hara) Stiles, of Irish, English and German heritage, was born on Main New York City, the outgoing daughter and eldest of three children of a Greenwich Village artist mother, Judith Newcomb Stiles, and an elementary school teacher father, John O'Hara.
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