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Jessica Biel

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Her luminous look, her acting qualities and an enviable figure without being anorexic have made her one of the most successful actresses of the moment, especially for her roles in Seven in Paradise and The Illusionist . Everything indicates that Jessica Biel will still play a lot on the screen.

Born on March 3, 1982 in Ely (Minnesota), Jessica Claire Biel was going to be a singer. She started professionally as a child performing in musicals in her hometown, where she was featured in performances of well-known titles like “Annie” and “The Sound of Music.” She subsequently attended a modeling convention, where she was cast in commercials when she was 12 years old.

At 14 he appeared in castings for television series. In the end they ended up signing her to play a fixed character in Siete en el paraíso . She was Mary Camden, the sensible eldest daughter of the leading family. Success accompanied this long-running series, making Jessica a celebrity.

Jessica Biel made her feature film debut, as the gothic, rebellious granddaughter of Peter Fonda , in Ulysses’ Gold . She was also in Come Home for Christmas If You Can… and came close to playing the character that ultimately ended up as Thora Birch in American Beauty . The actress blames the loss of that role on the fact that at that time she was typecast in the role of the good girl in the series Seven in paradise , so she finally decided to leave it in its sixth season. Since then she has concentrated on film, with titles such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) , Blade: Trinity , Stealth: The Invisible Menaceand Elizabethtown . She also made a cameo in Cellular , which starred Chris Evans , her boyfriend at the time.

But Jessica Biel established herself definitively in the cinema with the period film The Illusionist , along with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti . She played Duchess Sophie von Teschen, fiancée of the Crown Prince of Austria, and former childhood love of a prestigious magician.

Since then, Jessica Biel has not stopped shooting films like Next , I Proclaim You Husband and Husband , A Classy Family , The A-Team , Nailed or Valentine’s Stories . She even had time to return in the Seven in Paradise series finale .

For a long time she was romantically linked to the actor and singer Justin Timberlake , stage in which it was rumored that she was planning to record an album, although this has not been the case at the moment.

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