Neve Adrianne Campbell
Biography
Neve was born in Guelph (located 100km west of Toronto),
Ontario, Canada on October 3 1973. Gerry Campbell (father) a drama
teacher, and Marnie Neve (mother) a psychologist who now runs a yoga
studio. Her parents divorced when she was 2 years old :( and she
moved to Toronto with her father where she grew up. She has an 18
month old brother Christian and two younger half brothers: Damian
McDonal and Alex McDonald (youngest). She was married to Jeff Colt on
April 3 1995 and finalized the divorce on November 6. Neve is 166cm
(5'5 1/2"), weighs 55kg (123 lbs.), her natural hair colour is brown
and so are her eyes.
She started dancing at age 6 following a visit with her
father to see "The Nutcracker" and at age 9 she began training with
the National Ballet School of Canada. She has been trained in 6
different varieties of dance, including jazz, flamenco, modern,
hiphop and calssical ballet. She has performed in "Sleeping Beauty"
and "The Nutcracker" with the National Ballet of Canada. She spent 2
months in the modelling business following a discovery by a talent
scout, but she found it shallow and quit.
She then turned to acting, her first being a commercial
for Eaton Center, a mall in Canada. Later came her debut in "The
Phantom of the Opera" at the Pantages Theater in Toronto, where she
performed in over 800 shows. She liked the theatre because she got an
automatic response from the audience. It was here tha she met Jeff
Colt, her future husband.
In the daytime she was a daycare teacher. They moved in
together in 1990 when she was 17, about a year after she met him.
After a long engagement they married on April 3rd, 1995 in England
Westminster Cathedral near Wimbledon. They then spent their honeymoon
in Paris, Venice and Zurich and settled down to live in her recently
aquired 3-bedroomhouse in Laurel Canyon in Hollywood Hills near Los
Angeles, California. Neve married Jeff Colt for 2 and a half years.
On July 30, 1997, they announced their separation, and Jeff moved
out. In October 1997 she officially requested a divorce from Jeff. On
November 6 he filed to finalize the divorce.
Neve moved to Los Angeles, California to quote "I wanted
to go out there and throw my name around and see what happens,"
Campbell says, and, of that, she landed her role on FOX's Party of
Five as Julia Salinger, a TV drama about five children who are
surviving on their own without their parents in which of whom were
killed in a car accident. Then, Neve got her big movie role as Bonnie
in The Craft, and later got roles in Scream and Scream 2. Both were
box office hit surprises that boosted Neve's career, and now she's
crowned as a "Scream Queen."
