Biography of Neve CampbellNeve Adrianne Campbell (born October 3, 1973) is a Canadian actress. Beginning her career on stage, she came to fame on the 1990s television series Party of Five, and subsequently appeared in leading roles in several Hollywood films, including Scream, The Craft and Wild Things.She has since appeared in smaller roles.
Campbell was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Her father, Gerry Campbell, emigrated to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland. After studying theatre in university, he taught high school drama classes in Mississauga, Ontario—first at Westwood Secondary School (Now Lincoln Alexander Secondary School) and later at Lorne Park Secondary School.
Campbell's mother, Marnie Neve, is a psychiatrist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Campbell's maternal grandparents ran a theatre company in the Netherlands and her paternal grandparents were also performers.
Campbell is Catholic, but also identifies as Jewish because of her mother's Sephardic Jewish ancestry, specifying that her "lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes".
Her first name means "snow" in Italian and Portuguese; and "oasis" in Hebrew.
Campbell's parents divorced when she was two years old. She and brother Christian Campbell resided largely with their father, with regular periods at their mother's home, until Neve moved into residence at the National Ballet of Canada at age nine. She trained at the National Ballet School of Canada at the age of nine, and appeared in performances of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Campbell moved from dancing into acting at the age of fifteen, performing The Phantom of the Opera at the Pantages Theatre in Toronto. Her original goal was to make it professionally as a ballerina, but accumulating injuries (shin splints, fallen arches, cracked ribs, a bunion removed from her big toe, snapping hip syndrome, tendonitis, bursitis, etc. and the final straw was her hair began falling out due to advanced stress, leading to acupuncture to rectify the problem), she finally left dance in favor of a full-time acting career.
Her first starring role was on the short-lived Canadian television series Catwalk.
Campbell attended Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario.
Campbell married Canadian actor Jeffrey Colt on April 3, 1995; they divorced on May 8, 1998. She has also dated actors John Cusack, Matthew Lillard, and Pat Mastroianni. Campbell appears in campaign literature and videos for the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada and the Tourette Syndrome Association, (a similar organisation in the United States). Her younger half-brother, Damian McDonald, has Tourette syndrome. She also has an elder brother, Christian Campbell, and another brother, Alex, both of whom are actors.
In 2005, Campbell began dating John Light, an English actor who she met while filming the movie Investigating Sex. The couple became engaged in December 2005 and live in London, England. When Light proposed, he got down on one knee and recited Shakespeare to Campbell. They married in Malibu on May 5, 2007 Her father, Gerry Campbell "gave away" the bride.
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