Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott
The setting is the Sunrise Studios of Hollywood, where a sequel recreation of the Woodsboro Murders is being made as Stab 2. Ony problem is, someone has donned the mask of the killer for the third time and the body count is rising once again. Soon Sidney and Gale Weathers are being terrorized as the hunt for the killer's true identity begins once again.
Biography for Neve Campbell
Date of birth
3 October 1973
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Birth name
Neve Adrianne Campbell
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Born and raised in Canada by a Scottish father and Dutch mother, Neve Campbell first came to our TV screens in the hit Drama series "Party of Five" (1994). Described as TV's most believable teenager her first major film role came in the form of innocent victim Sidney Prescott in Scream (1996), the film which re-defined the slasher genre.
Many film offers came her way but as she was filming Party of Five for nine months of the year, the filming schedules often clashed. So in 2001 she announced that she was to leave the award winning show to concentrate on a film career.
Spreading through many genres her film credits to date include the romantic comedy Three to Tango (1999) alongside Matthew Perry and the erotic thriller Wild Things (1998) with Denise Richards and Matt Dillon, though she has turned to a more arthouse aproach with the critically acclaimed Panic (2000) and more recently Last Call (2002/I) (TV), both directed by Henry Bromell.
She is an animal lover and describes herself as having a dry, often offensive sense of humour.
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Trivia
On People (USA) magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list. [2000]
Neve is her mother's maiden name.
Neve (pronounced "Nev") is an Italian word meaning "snow".
Younger sister of Christian Campbell.
Joined the National Ballet School of Canada at age 9.
Has brown eyes.
Posed for a swimsuit photo believing it to be intended for a catalogue only to see it appear on a Toronto billboard.
Had to turn down the role in Armageddon (1998) because of conflicts with the Party of Five schedule.
Had to turn down the role in Rounders (1998) because in the contract it said she would have to be in Scream 2 (1997) and she wasn't sure if she wanted to do it or not.
Revealed that at aged 14 she suffered a "nervous breakdown" which resulted in complete hairloss, and that only intensive acupunture grew it back. [1999]
Her father is a drama teacher at Lorne Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario.
In a public restroom, a fan knocked on her stall door, put a pen and paper underneath and said, "Can I get your autograph?" Campbell replied, "Can I finish peeing first?" -- Cosmopolitan magazine, October 1999
Was a chorus girl in the original Toronto cast of Phantom of the Opera starring Colm Wilkinson.
Has a "no nudity" clause in her contract. But she lifted it for her role in the film When Will I Be Loved (2004), her first movie showing her completely nude.
First came to TV screens as "Daisy" in the short-lived series "Catwalk" (1992) about sex, booze and Rock 'n Roll which was somewhat modelled after the Fox show, "The Heights" (1992).
Older sister of Alex Campbell.
In Scream (1996) she said "If one day, people will make a movie about me, I would like Meg Ryan to play me, but with my luck, Tori Spelling will play me". Spelling wasn't insulted and on Scream 2 (1997) she actually did play Neve Campbell, in a "would-be" sequel to Scream (1996), in a movie called Stab.
At the time, she was the youngest person ever cast in "The Phantom of the Opera." Although her role was usually that of a member of the ballet corps, she did understudy the role of Meg Giry.
Formed the Blue Sphere Alliance Production Company at The Lex Theatre in Hollywood with her brother Christian and Matthew Lillard.
Was originally going to be a ballerina, but quit due to accumulating injuries (she had a bunion removed from her big toe and her joints were practically worn away), so she finally gave up dance. She still works out at the bar regularly and made the movie The Company (2003) because of her love for the art.
She started taking taking ballet at the age of six, after seeing a production of "The Nutcracker."
The Campbell family was named the "spokesfamily" of the Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada.
Movie A Private War (2005) is said to be about actor/writer/producer Pete Antico. [Teen People Magazine, April 2000]
Her mother had been an HIV/AIDS educator and counselor.
Younger brother Damian, was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS) in 1989, after Neve finished another year at Canada's National Ballet School in Toronto. She has used her fame from "Party of Five" (1994) to raise awareness for the disease, particpating in TS conferences and fund-raisers in Toronto and Los Angeles.
In an interview, she said that her main beauty tip is, to keep your face looking thin, dip your face into ice-cold water, complete with ice cubes, three times for six seconds each. But she warned that she does occasionally have headaches afterwards.
Favorite horror movies are The Shining (1980) and The Changeling (1980).
Along with David Arquette, Courtney Cox and Liev Schreiber, she is one of only four actors to appear in all three 'Scream' films.
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Personal quotes
(If she could change one feature about her, what would it be?): "I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!"
("What was the most diificult time of her life?"): Probably when I was at the National Ballet School of Canada, from the ages of nine to fourteen. It's the best dance school in the world, but an extremely competitive one, and there was a lot of pressure for a child. It had an extremely back-stabbing mentality, and there was a lot of favoritism. I wanted to be there because I wanted to be a dancer. I love to dance, and that was my dream. When you're in that school, it means you've beaten out two thousand people to get there, so you're not exactly gonna quit. But I did, at fourteen, because I basically had a nervous breakdown--I wouldn't have been able to function had I stayed there. It was a huge decision. But I'd just about given up on my dream of being a dancer and realized that I'd completely lost myself and had no friends and was very unhappy in my life and couldn't have continued if I'd stayed there.
(Asked "Was she injured during the filming of "The Company"): "I broke my rib three days before going to Chicago. I did the training for four and a half months getting ready to go and three days before I went, when I was really nervous to join the company and see where I stood, I broke my rib. We were learning "Funny Valentine" and because we were learning from the tape, we were doing one of the lifts wrong. He lifted me from under my ribs. So then I had to go and do it with a broken rib."
(On her dance injuries): "I have got arthritis in my neck and my hips. I have had surgery on my feet. I have had snapping hip syndrome, tendonitis, shin splints, bursitis... I have had almost every injury imaginable."
"TS has really taught me a lesson about judging people who are different. Now when I see somebody do or say something I don't understand, I try to look beyound appearances and ask myself what makes that person tick - no pun intended. Think about it: When you keep an open mind about things that seem unusual or strange, all sorts of new understanding come to you. The world gets bigger, and so do you." ["Celebrity Diary", Teen People Magazine, April 2000]
"When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive."
"I'm always sad I left dance. I'm just in my element when I'm in the dance world. I'm so much more content in my heart when I'm sitting on a dance floor in a studio. It sounds so cheesy but it's just my home, it's where I grew up, I've been doing it since I was 6. It makes so much more sense to me than anything else I do."
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Links:
Against the Current (2002) .... Frances Kroll
... aka Fitzgerald (2002) (USA)
Investigating Sex (2001) .... Alice
Lost Junction (2001)
Boogeymen (2001) (V) (archive footage) .... Sidney Prescott ('Scream')
Celebrity Profile: Jennifer Love Hewitt (2000) (TV) .... Herself
Scream 3 (2000) .... Sidney Prescott
Panic (2000) .... Sarah Cassidy
Drowning Mona (2000) .... Ellen Rash
Predators From Beyond Neptune (1999) (Guest Appearance) .... Herself
Three to Tango (1999) .... Amy Post
Hairshirt (1998) .... Renee Weber
... aka Too Smooth (2001) (USA: reissue title)
Lion King II: Simba's Pride, The (1998) (V) (voice) .... Kiara
54 (1998) .... Julie Black
... aka Fifty-Four (1998)
Wild Things (1998) .... Suzie Marie Toller
... aka Sex Crimes (1998) (Belgium: English title)
... aka wildthings (1998) (USA: video box title)
Scream 2 (1997) .... Sidney 'Sid' Prescott
Witching Hour, The (1996) (TV) .... Herself/Bonnie
Scream (1996) .... Sidney 'Sid' Prescott
Craft, The (1996) .... Bonnie
Canterville Ghost, The (1996) (TV) .... Virginia 'Ginny' Otis
Love Child (1995) .... Deidre
Dark, The (1994) .... Jesse Donovan
Paint Cans (1994) .... Tristesse
Passion of John Ruskin, The (1994) .... Rose
... aka Ruskin (1994) (Canada: English title)
Baree (1994) (TV) .... Nepeese
... aka Baree: The Wolf Dog (1994) (TV)
... aka Bari (1994) (TV) (France)
... aka Northern Passage (1994) (TV)
"Party of Five" (1994) TV Series .... Julia Salinger
Forget-Me-Not Murders, The (1994) (TV) .... Jess Foy
... aka Janek: Forget-Me-Not Murders (1994) (TV)
Web of Deceit (1994) (TV) .... Beth
... aka I Know My Son Is Alive (1994) (TV)
"Catwalk" (1992) TV Series .... Daisy McKenzie (1992-1993)