Juliette Lewis is an American actress and musician.
Juliette Lewis was born in Los Angeles, California to Geoffrey Lewis, an actor, and Glenis Duggan Batley, a graphic designer. She has four siblings – brothers Lightfield and Peter, and sisters Dierdre and Brandy.
Lewis first garnered international attention and acclaim in 1991 with her turn as Danielle Bowden in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992. Over the next few years, she won further critical support in Peter Medak's Romeo Is Bleeding, and as opposite Brad Pitt in Kalifornia.
She received an Emmy nomination for her performance in Hysterical Blindness in 2003. She also appeared in the HIM music video for "Buried Alive By Love" in 2003.
Lewis appeared in Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV, providing the voice of "Juliette", the host of fictional radio station "Radio Broker".
Lewis launched a career as a solo singer and musician, leading American rock band Juliette and the Licks until 2009.
At the age of 14, she left her parents and went to live with a family friend, actress Karen Black before moving into her own apartment. Dropping out of high school she got into trouble with the law, driving illegally at 15 and arrested in a night-club at 16 for being under-age. She also went into rehab for drug addiction in her twenties.
Lewis dated actor Brad Pitt, with whom she co-starred in the films Kalifornia and Too Young to Die?. She also dated Michael Dewitt, the nanny employed by musicians Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. She married professional skateboarder Steve Berra in 1999; they divorced in 2003.