Jessica Claire Biel (born March 3, 1982) is an American actress, model,
and occasional singer. Biel is known for her television role as Mary
Camden in the long-running family-drama series 7th Heaven. She has also
appeared in several Hollywood films, including Summer Catch, The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre, The Illusionist, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry,
and The A-Team.Jessica Claire Biel was born in Ely, Minnesota. Her
mother, Kimberly (née Conroe), is a homemaker and spiritual healer. Her
father, Jonathan Biel, worked for GE and was also an entrepreneur and
business consultant. She is of German, French, English, and Choctaw
ancestry and has a younger brother, Justin, born in 1985. Biel's family
moved frequently during her childhood, living in Texas, Connecticut, and
Woodstock, Illinois, before finally settling in Boulder, Colorado.
While growing up, Biel played soccer and also trained as a gymnast. She
is also an avid snowboarder. From 2000 to 2002, she attended Tufts
University in Medford, MA. Biel initially trained to be a vocalist, and
from age nine appeared in several musical productions in her hometown,
playing lead roles in productions such as Annie, The Sound of Music, and
Beauty and the Beast.

At
twelve, Biel attended The International Modeling and Talent
Association conference in Los Angeles where she was discovered and
signed by a talent agency. She began modeling for print advertisements,
and appeared in commercials for products such as Dulux Paint and
Pringles. Biel also played the character Regrettal, a lead role in a
low-budget musical short titled It's a Digital World, but the film was
never released. At fourteen, after auditioning for several television
pilots, Biel was cast as Mary Camden, the oldest daughter in the family
drama 7th Heaven. The show ran 11 seasons, making it the
longest-running family drama in U.S. television history. In 2000,
during the fourth season of 7th Heaven, Biel commented that she had
grown tired of playing the wholesome preacher's kid, and blamed the show
for giving her a squeaky-clean image, causing her to lose out on a role
in American Beauty (the part went to Thora Birch). In a last-ditch
attempt to be released from her contract, she posed semi-nude for the
cover of Gear magazine. The shoot sparked considerable controversy as
Biel was still under eighteen at the time. Fans and producers of 7th
Heaven were outraged, and the latter brought legal action against Gear
magazine. 7th Heaven producer Aaron Spelling made it clear that Biel
would be staying with the show for the remainder of her contract,
although Biel appeared in minimal episodes in season five, due to her
character attending college out of state. She has stated that she
regrets the Gear shoot but considers it a learning experience.

In 2001, Biel played the love interest of Freddie Prinze, Jr. in the
baseball-themed movie Summer Catch. The next year she starred as
promiscuous college student Lara in the ensemble movie The Rules of
Attraction, an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel. After leaving
7th Heaven at the end of its sixth season, Biel was cast in her first
top-billing role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The film met with mixed
reviews but her performance was praised and it was a commercial
success, scoring the number-one spot in its opening week and going on to
earn more than $80 million in the U.S. In 2003, Biel began work on the
third installment of the Blade film series, Blade: Trinity. Almost
immediately after finishing it in 2004, she headed to Australia to shoot
the action-thriller Stealth. Both movies were critical and box office
failures. Stealth had a budget of $130 million but grossed $76 million
worldwide. Biel also made a cameo appearance in the 2004 film Cellular.
Biel went on to audition for the role of Claire Colburn in the romantic
comedy Elizabethtown, but the role eventually went to Kirsten Dunst.
Biel was instead cast in a smaller role as Ellen Kishmore. She then
played the title character in the indie film London.

Biel played an Iraq War veteran in the 2006 film Home of the Brave, a
drama about soldiers struggling to adjust back into society after facing
the hardships of war. Her performance was well-received but the movie
was a commercial failure. After being pulled from theaters twice, it
eventually went to DVD in late 2007. Biel and Home of the Brave co-star
Samuel L. Jackson were nominated for Prism Awards for their
performances. Meanwhile, after a three-year absence from television,
Biel returned for what was to be the series finale of 7th Heaven (the
show was later unexpectedly renewed at the last minute by The CW
Television Network). The episode had already been initially shot, but
producer and creator Brenda Hampton was determined to have Biel featured
in the episode, so Biel agreed to shoot her scenes during a break from
filming her upcoming 2007 film Next. In Next, Biel played alongside
Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore. She then played in the summer comedy, I
Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, co-starring Adam Sandler and Kevin
James. Like her earlier film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Chuck and
Larry received mixed reviews, but opened its first week at number one at
the box office. Biel also produced and starred in a short film titled
Hole in the Paper Sky, which was released in 2008.

In late 2007, Biel signed on to play a stripper in Powder Blue,
alongside Forest Whitaker (who also produced the film), Ray Liotta and
Patrick Swayze.At the start of 2008, Biel shot Easy Virtue, an
adaptation of the play by Noël Coward. Like the play, the movie is set
in the 1920s and Biel plays young widow Larita, who impulsively marries
John Whittaker in France and must face her disapproving in-laws on
returning to England. The film premiered in September 2008 at the
Toronto International Film Festival. Critics praised Biel for her
performance, with Todd McCarthy of Variety saying Biel "more than kept
up" with veterans Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth and praising her
"sparkling" performance. The Hollywood Reporter described her
performance as "an irresistible force of nature — a kind, witty,
supremely intelligent and beautiful woman who ... is capable of
rejoinders that thoroughly undercut her opponent's withering
criticism."In April 2008, Biel began working on the political satire
Nailed, with Jake Gyllenhaal. The movie centers around a woman who
accidentally gets a nail lodged in her head, then travels to Washington
D.C. to fight for better health care. Filming wrapped up in late June
after several production shutdowns. She is also co-producing and
starring in Die a Little, a contemporary adaptation of the novel by
Megan Abbott. A filming start date has not been set. Biel also landed a
part in Lincoln Center Theater's two-week-long workshop of the musical
version of the Pedro Almodóvar classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown, along with Salma Hayek.

In early 2007, Jessica co-founded the Make the Difference Network[24]
with her father and another business partner, Kent McBride. Make the
Difference Network (MTDN) is a cause-oriented social network that
connects non-profit organizations with potential donors and increases
the awareness for small-to-medium non-profit organizations. MTDN's
mission is to democratize giving by increasing the visibility of
thousands of non-profit organizations and empowering potential donors to
search, select, and fund these organizations' specific "wishes" and
then to see the results of their giving. Make the Difference Network was
also featured at the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative, where they made a
commitment to democratize giving through the use of a social network. In
2010, Biel climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with members of
the United Nation Foundation to raise awareness of the global water
crisis. Also in 2010, Biel's humanitarian and charity work (as well as
her popularity with young people) earned her a nomination for a Do
Something Award. The awards show, produced by VH1, is dedicated to
honoring people who do good and is powered by Do Something, an
organization that aims to empower, celebrate, and inspire young people.

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