Juliette Lewis photo by Hsi_Nao

This is one wild woman!

The first experience I’ve had of Juliette Lewis was in a film called “Dusk Till Dawn” with Quentin Tarantino actually in the film and also starring George Clooney and Salma Hayek. Her acting and the film were superb, and she was very young back then in 96, but even then,  you just had the feeling, that she may be just a bit too wild to be a full on actress within the constraints of the highly regulated film industry, and her destiny may just lie somewhere else.

Juliette Lewis photo by Hsi_Nao

She turned from a succesful acting career and jumped straight into the music industry and is now a lead singer of the punk group “The Licks” and the rest as they say is history. She seems to be in her element, and is arguably  one of the few actresses to make a success of going from acting to being a musician.

She has appeared in a broad ranging spectrum of films and has also appeared in a Gap commercial.

Juliette Lewis Biography courtesy Wikipedia

Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and musician.

Lewis has appeared in over forty films and made-for-TV movies. She starred in the video for the Melissa Etheridge song “Come To My Window”, and has also appeared in a GAP commercial which she was dancing with Daft Punk to the tune of the song “Digital Love.”

 Juliette Lewis Daft punk Gap commerical

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for Cape Fear. In 1995 she starred in Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days; in the movie she sings PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me from the eponymous album, anticipating her later work as a singer. 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.

Juliette Lewis & The Licks - You’re Speaking My Language

Lewis has also launched a career as a solo singer and musician, leading a group called Juliette and the Licks which has released a number of recordings. She is working with rock songwriter Linda Perry, among others. Lewis has also appeared on three tracks by Electronic Music group The Prodigy’s 2004 CD Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (”Spitfire”, “Get Up Get Off”, and “Hot Ride”). In 2006 Blender Magazine included her in their hottest women of rock music list while saying, “[She] delivered sonically varnished melodic punk replete with purring vocals and lyrics that bash porn, pharmaceutical companies and rotten lovers (in no particular order)”.

Lewis made an appearance in Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV, providing the voice of “Juliette”, the host of fictional radio station ‘Radio Broker’.

Juliette Lewis in Dusk Till Dawn Trailer at You Tube

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