Clea DuVall

Clea DuVall Biography

Clea Helen D'Etienne DuVall (born September 25, 1977) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Sofie on the television series Carnivàle as well as for films such as The Faculty (1998), Girl, Interrupted (1999), The Grudge (2004), and Heroes (season 1, 2006). She is also known for her role as Cora Lijek in the Oscar-winning film Argo.

Early life

DuVall was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Rosemary (née Hatch) and Stephen DuVall. Her father is also an actor, mostly remembered as Connor from the Steven Seagal film The Keeper. Her parents divorced when she was 12. She sought entertainment in movies and television programs, memorizing entire scenes. She is not related to actors Robert Duvall or Shelley Duvall.

Career

Prior to making her debut in Little Witches, she worked in a coffee shop. She appeared in various films and episodes of TV shows such as ER and Buffy the Vampire Slayer before her breakthrough role as a protagonist goth student in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty. She then portrayed an institutionalized pathological liar in the acclaimed Girl, Interrupted, as well as a lesbian enrolled in 'therapy camp' in the indie hit But I'm a Cheerleader. Major roles in The Astronaut's Wife, Ghosts of Mars and Thirteen Conversations About One Thing followed.

After appearing in The Laramie Project, Identity and 21 Grams, DuVall starred in HBO's Emmy Award-winning Carnivàle, which ran from 2003"2005. During that time, she also starred in Helter Skelter (which earned her a Satellite Award nomination) and The Grudge.

Other projects include Itty Bitty Titty Committee, David Fincher's Zodiac and a recurring role on NBC's hit series Heroes. In 2008 she starred with Anne Hathaway in Passengers.

More recent projects include roles in the 2012 Ben Affleck film Argo, in which she portrayed Cora Lijek, a Japanese American and one of six American diplomats rescued from Iran in 1980, for which she, along with the cast, received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She also appeared in the second season of the TV series American Horror Story.

DuVall has directed a short film called It's Not Easy Being Green, starring Leisha Hailey, Carnivàle co-star Carla Gallo and herself. She also took promotional pictures for Uh Huh Her.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Little Witches	Kelsey
1997	On the Edge of Innocence	Ann
1997	'	Suzy
1997	Niagara, Niagara	Convenience Store Clerk
1998	How to Make the Cruelest Month	Bell Bryant
1998	Girl	Gillian
1998	Can't Hardly Wait	Jana
1998	'	Stokely "Stokes" Mitchell
1999	'	Nurse
1999	She's All That	Misty
1999	Wildflowers	Cally
1999	Sleeping Beauties	Clea
1999	'	Nan
1999	But I'm a Cheerleader	Graham Eaton
1999	Girl, Interrupted	Georgina Tuskin
2000	Committed	Mimi
2000	Bear to the Right	Waitress
2001	See Jane Run	Jane Whittaker
2001	Ghosts of Mars	Bashira Kincaid
2001	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing	Beatrice "Bea"
2001	How to Make a Monster	Laura
2002	'	Amanda Gronich
2002	'	Skyla
2003	Identity	Ginny
2003	21 Grams	Claudia
2004	Helter Skelter	Linda Kasabian	TV Film
2004	'	Jennifer Williams
2005	Two Weeks	Katrina
2005	Fathers and Sons	Laura	Uncredited role
2006	Champions	Billy
2007	Zodiac	Linda del Buono
2007	Ten Inch Hero	Jen
2007	Itty Bitty Titty Committee	Singer
2007	Anamorph	Sandy
2008	Passengers	Shannon
2008	'	Cassie
2009	'	Kerry Isalano
2010	Conviction	Brenda
2011	And Baby Will Fall	Melinda White	Lifetime TV Movie
2012	Argo	Cora Lijek

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Dangerous Minds	Nina	1 episode
1997	ER	Katie Reed	2 episodes
1997	Crisis Center	Teen	1 episode
1997	Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Marcie Ross	Episode: "Out of Mind...Out of Sight"
1997	'	Jessica Lane
2000	Popular	Wanda Rickets	2 episodes
2001	'	Lynette Hennessy	2 episodes
2003-05	Carnivàle	Sofie Agnesh Bojakshiya	24 episodes
2005	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Abigail Spencer	Episode: "Shooting Stars"
2006"07	Heroes	Agent Audrey Hanson	7 episodes
2008	'	Cassie	Television film on LMN
2008	Grey's Anatomy	Jennifer	Episodes: "Piece of My Heart" and "Where the Wild Things Are"
2008	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Mia Latimer	Episode: "Persona"
2009	Virtuality	Sue Parsons
2009	Saving Grace	Maura	Episode: "Looks Like a Lesbian Attack to Me"
2009	Lie to Me	Michelle Russell	Episode: "Blinded"
2010	Private Practice	Natasha	Episode: "Fear of Flying"
2010	Bones	McKenna Grant	Episode: "The Bones on the Blue Line"
2010	Numb3rs	Melanie Bailey	Episode: "Devil Girl"
2010	Law & Order	Amanda Green	Episode: "The Taxman Cometh"
2010"11	The Event	Maya	3 episodes
2011	CSI: Miami	Lyla Moore	Episode: "About Face"
2011	And Baby Will Fall	Melinda White	Television film on Lifetime
2012-13	American Horror Story: Asylum	Wendy Peyser	5 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work
1999	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Favorite Female Newcomer	The Faculty
2003	Florida Film Critics Circle Awards	Best Ensemble Acting	Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2004	Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards	Best Cast	21 Grams
2005	Satellite Awards	Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film	Helter Skelter
2013	Palm Springs International Film Festival	Best Acting Ensemble	Argo
2013	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	Argo

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